The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 17th Former Cardinal Passes On: Former Louisville star Larry Williams was found dead over the weekend. He was 48. Williams, who escaped the mean streets of Chicago to play for Denny Crum from 1975-79, was found Saturday in a Louisville motel. The cause of […]
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Northeastern Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness at Northeastern by Phil Kasiecki BOSTON – It’s the night before a victory parade that Bostonians have long awaited. In fact, preparations at nearby Fenway Park are already noticeable if you go by there. Needless to say, attendance expectations for a special version of Midnight Madness at Northeastern […]
Seven Keys to a Better Basketball Season
Seven Keys to a Better Basketball Season by Matt Jones Recently I came to a realization. I have decided (after much deep thought) that the beginning of October may be the best time of the entire year to be a sports fan. No matter what your favorite sport is, it […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 10th Cincinnati Short-handed: Cincinnati soundly thumped Northern Kentucky in the Bearcat’s opening exhibition game, but injuries and eligibility issues limited the Bearcats to 10 players in uniform. Freshman Vincent Banks missed the game because of academic-related matter, which coach Bob Huggins said he is […]
Vermont’s T.J. Sorrentine
Sorrentine Still Joining Elite Company by Phil Kasiecki The elite company that T.J. Sorrentine is in hasn’t quite dawned on him yet. When Sorrentine won the America East Player of the Year award in 2002, he joined elite company in two respects. He became just the third player, following the […]
Stony Brook’s D.J. Munir
Munir Completes The Comeback by Phil Kasiecki Last fall, D.J. Munir was at an all-time low. He was academically ineligible to play basketball for the first semester, due to school policy and not NCAA regulations. A fierce competitor, he couldn’t play the game he loves. “That was probably the toughest […]
Northeastern’s Sylbrin Robinson
The Ultimate Warrior Leads Northeastern’s Resurgence by Phil Kasiecki Ask a few people who have played with or coached Sylbrin Robinson to describe what it’s been like, and a lot of the same things are said. At Northeastern, there are plenty of people who can speak to it. “With Syl, […]
New Hampshire’s Marcus Bullock
Bullock Moves New Hampshire Forward by Phil Kasiecki New Hampshire basketball has gone as Marcus Bullock has the last four years – a little up and down, but at the end, in a better position than at the beginning. The native of Cherry Hill, New Jersey was one of the […]
UMBC’s Kareem Washington
Making the Most Out of Opportunity by Phil Kasiecki Looking at the UMBC team statistics, one thing might jump out at you about their leading scorer, Kareem Washington: he doesn’t start for them. Take a look at last year’s statistics, when Washington also led them in scoring, and you see […]
Maine’s Mark Flavin
The Coach Knew it All Along by Phil Kasiecki John Giannini knew all along what America East observers are just finding out this season: center Mark Flavin is pretty good. The 2002-03 Maine media guide quotes Giannini on Flavin as saying, “He is a big man we are developing to […]
