Battle of the Sexes by Nicholas Lozito I belong on the basketball court as much as Dick Vitale belongs in a preschool’s napping room. I’ve stared sheepishly into the eyes of teammates after my man scored eighteen points in a game of 21. I’ve stood flat-footed at the 3-point line […]
Author: Nick Lozito
College Quotebook 6
College Quotebook – January 7th – 14th by Nicholas Lozito Leading The Pac “We’re maturing and learning, and at the same time we’re not losing. A team hits us with something devastating, we don’t panic, we don’t get all bottled up about it. We just come back.” — UCLA forward […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Reevaluating The Big Sky So things haven’t gone exactly as planned this preseason for most Big Sky teams. The conference has a combined 42-59 record, with many of those wins coming against non-Division I teams. About half of the conference is playing mediocre basketball, […]
January 5th
College Quotebook – December 18th – January 5th by Nicholas Lozito A Knight’s Tale — In an interview with ESPN last week, Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight went off about his relationship with former player and current Iowa coach Steve Alford. ESPN reporter Fran Fraschilla to Alford, regarding perceived tension […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito A Kodiak Moment Senior forward Aaron Bond scored a short-range bucket with 1.6 seconds remaining to give Northern Arizona a 74-73 road win over UNLV on Thursday. Sixth man Kodiak Yazzie fed the game-winning pass to Bond, giving the Lumberjacks their first road win […]
College Quotebook December 11th-17th
College Quotebook – December 11th – December 17th by Nicholas Lozito Coach Grieves Loss Of Player “One of my greatest fears as a coach was realized today. These players are like family to me and to each other. It’s hard to even comprehend how something like this could happen.” — […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Notebook by Nicholas Lozito Put A Positive Spin On This One For the Big Sky Conference, preseason basketball has not been fun. In fact, it has flat out sucked. I know, as a “professional journalist,” I should probably open up a thesaurus or dictionary and come up with […]
College Quotebook 3
College Quotebook – December 3rd – December 10th by Nicholas Lozito Jailhouse Confessions “When I first got here, they did, they did everybody. I mean, they do A.J. and Rickey. If they need money, they’d go to Harvey. He, he’d get it for ’em… But it was him first, and […]
College Quotebook
College Quotebook – November 25th – December 2nd by Nicholas Lozito “Can I Get A Sub…Anybody?” “I’m playing with a 5-10 shooting guard and my backup point guard is a midget. Halfway through the game, I went to press row and started asking guys if they had eligibility left.” – […]
Basketball Movie Awards
The Inaugural Basketball Movie Awards by Nicholas Lozito Some call me a pathetic man with too much time on his hands. I call myself a basketball movie junkie. Either way, it has become my mission to own every halfway decent basketball movie available on VHS or DVD. I’m off to […]
