NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Michael Protos Mirror, mirror or Crystal Ball, which conference is best among them all? The answer, my friend, is clear: The Big East is best with eight NCAA Tournament-worthy teams. Yes, North Carolina, Wake Forest, Duke and Georgia Tech are a more formidable foursome than […]
Columns
Look around the nation
Some Things Just Never Change by Matt Jones Well folks, it is time to finally admit to ourselves something that we have been putting off for far too long. Like a group of long-haired hippies in Ohio who still insist that there could be enough voter fraud to change the […]
Pittsburgh Regains Momentum
Panthers Regain Momentum by Phil Kasiecki STORRS, Conn. – Jamie Dixon and his team won’t tell you this, but they needed Saturday’s game. They got it, and the way they got it might be as important as the fact that they pulled out a 76-66 win in one of the […]
St. Joseph’s Returns
Hawks Are Right There Once Again by Phil Kasiecki PHILADELPHIA – The 2004-05 media guide for St. Joseph’s has the words “In Transition” on the cover. This season isn’t supposed to be a carbon copy of the magical 2003-04 season, when the school was the talk of the country as […]
Support Illinois
Support Your Team, Chicago! by Michael Ermitage Hello? Chicago? Do you realize that the number one team in college basketball is playing right outside your precious Chicagoland borders? It sure doesn’t seem like it. Oh sure, the Sun Times will run a back page spread on the Illini opening conference […]
NCAA Crystal Ball
NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball by Michael Protos This week’s Crystal Ball reflects the shake-up within the ACC, Pittsburgh’s downward spiral, and the collapse of the Cavaliers. The cloudiest portion of this week’s Crystal Ball was the No. 1 seeds. The first two are easy: Illinois and Kansas are undefeated and […]
Joe Crawford Situation
What Does It All Mean? by Matt Jones A famous rock philosopher (who looked really old Sunday night at the Golden Globes), once said… “You can’t always get what you want… but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.” With the news that freshman sensation Joe Crawford has […]
Kyle Lowry’s Return
Amazing Return by Phil Kasiecki PHILADELPHIA – Kyle Lowry was supposed to be practicing right now with Villanova. That’s all – just practicing, not playing over 18 minutes per game for the Wildcats. “We never thought we were going to have Kyle Lowry,” head coach Jay Wright said. “He did […]
NCAA Crystal Ball
Peering in the Crystal Ball by Michael Protos Everyone loves predictions. We argue about whether a columnist is right on target or way off. To contribute to the precursor to March Madness, I offer my own projections in the 2005 NCAA Tournament Crystal Ball. The basis for the Crystal Ball […]
Boston University vs. Vermont
New England Rivalry in Progress by Adam Reich If we were to start a debate as to which is the greatest rivalry in sports, most would say Red Sox-Yankees, while others might suggest North Carolina-Duke basketball, maybe even Michigan-Ohio State football. But while these classic rivalries remain a constant fixture […]
