Big East Conference Notebook by Zach Smart Stephenson Considering SJU, Rumors Are Rumors Basketball is our city’s game. So how come, for the better of a decade, has there been a search warrant out for top-profile players at St. John’s University? In the heart of a traditional basketball breeding ground, […]
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Randy Culpepper
UTEP Getting Some ‘Pep’ In Its Step by Zach Smart Ah, to be 19 with otherworldly, eye-popping springs. Meet Randy Culpepper, a generously-listed 6-foot guard for the University of Texas-El Paso. Mr. Culpepper, through a catalogue of soaring, emphatic, rim-ringing, gravity-defying and rim-punishing bangers, has etched his name in YouTube […]
DeMario Anderson Tries To Go Pro
Pro Scouts On The Prowl For Quinnipiac’s Anderson by Zach Smart HAMDEN, Conn. – It’s a true story. DeMario Anderson sauntered into a restaurant on Whitney Ave., sporting a black fitted hat with “D.C.” emblazoned on the front. Suddenly, he was approached by two model-slender and strikingly pretty young women. […]
Duquesne Moving Forward
The Storm is Over by Zach Smart To paraphrase Michael Moore, the scruffy-faced, cow-sized huckster, “was it all a dream?” While the thought of George W. Bush winning the election and serving eight chaotic years is Halloween-scary (and the results certainly speak for themselves), this was a new ground-breaking catastrophe. […]
Mount St. Mary’s Surprise Success
The Mount a Surprise Success in 2008 by Zach Smart The road to success is not straight. It’s one of the more popular chestnuts of the King James Bible. In the Northeast Conference, a topsy-turvy, up-for-grabs league that’s about as predictable as the next Britney Spears meltdown, the axiom has […]
Tale Of Stephen Curry
Curry Turning Heads, Finishing What His Father Started by Zach Smart There’s a quaint, old-world Deli/Bakery on the corner of the Ichabod’s Landing in the historic village of Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. You ever heard of Sleepy Hollow? Every Halloween this area garners some national visibility due to that classic, legendary, […]
Big East Notebook
Big East Conference Notebook by Zach Smart NEW YORK – This is what it all trickled down to. After back-to-back-to-back do-or-die games, non-stop live hoops, constant reliance on live scores, updates, and television highlights, a Land Rover-load of buffalo wings and a Hudson River full of cold beer (which allowed […]
Big East Notebook
Big East Conference Notebook by Zach Smart STORRS, Conn-Due to a vicious Ohio storm that shattered the state’s snowfall records, the Cincinnati Bearcats/UConn Huskies game originally slated for Saturday afternoon was delayed until Sunday night. For the Bearcats, which committed a torrent of turnovers in the early going, the confines […]
Big East Notebook
Big East Conference Notebook by Zach Smart HARTFORD – Apparently, Jerome Dyson’s 14.3 points per game-as well as his hounding defense, set three-pointers, quick slashes to the bucket and acrobatic, rim-ringing dunks- haven’t been sorely missed by the Connecticut men’s basketball team. Forget, for a moment, the pre-Superbowl madness that’s […]
St. Francis Comes Together
Unity A Key For Red Flash by Zach Smart Adversity. It’s an aspect of life that simply none of us can eschew. No matter how hard you try, nobody gets out of life unscathed. Last season, the St. Francis (Pa.) men’s basketball team’s pursuit of the Northeast Conference post-season took […]
