Chilliocothe Player Died of Enlarged Heart: According to a preliminary report, a coroner found that Jonathan Davis, a sophomore at Ohio University-Chillicothe, died of an enlarged hart. Davis collapsed during practice, and medical workers pronounced him dead at Adena Regional Medical Center. The university honored Davis by canceling games and […]

LSU Fires Brady: With LSU struggling at 8-13 and 1-6 in the SEC, the Tigers decided to fire coach John Brady. The university will let Brady finish his tenure by leading the Tigers against Tennessee Saturday before assistant coach Butch Pierre becomes the interim coach for the rest of the […]

Longar Could Miss Rest of Season: Oklahoma senior center Longar Longar broke a bone in his right leg against Texas A&M and is out indefinitely while recovering. Coach Jeff Capel said he does not know how long it will take Longar to recover from the broken bone, which is right […]

Robinson Balances Coaching and Campaigning: It’s election season in addition to the final laps of the 2007-08 men’s basketball season. That makes coaching Brown and campaigning for Sen. Barack Obama difficult for the Bears’ Craig Robinson, who is a brother-in-law of the Democratic hopeful. For Tuesday’s recent slate of primaries, […]

Flannery Remains Absent: Bucknell coach Patrick Flannery missed his second consecutive game because of an undisclosed illness. Flannery missed the Bison’s 91-85 win at Colgate after missing Sunday’s loss to Army. Assistant Nathan Davis has filled in as acting head coach while Flannery recovers. Flannery did not specify the nature […]

Wildcats Lose Wise: Arizona sophomore guard Nic Wise will miss at least a month after having knee surgery Wednesday to repair a torn meniscus. Wise injured his knee against USC and tried to play through the injury against UCLA but was not improving. Wise averages 8.3 points per game and […]

Missouri Reinstates Four: Four of the five Tigers suspended by Missouri coach Mike Anderson have been reinstated. Forwards Leo Lyons and Marshall Brown were reinstated in time for the game against Kansas State Saturday. Both were suspended following an altercation outside of a Columbia nightclub in late January. Jason Horton, […]

Lawson Might Miss Duke Game: North Carolina coach Roy Williams is pessimistic about guard Ty Lawson playing in Wednesday’s match up against Duke. Lawson, a sophomore starter, didn’t return after injuring his left ankle early in the Tar Heels’ overtime win against Florida State. X-rays showed no broken bones, but […]

Vols to Honor Grunfeld Against Kentucky: Tennessee will retire the No. 22 jersey of Ernie Grunfled, the program’s second-leading scorer of all time. Grunfeld played for the Volunteers in the mid-1970s before playing professionally for the Milwaukee Bucks, Kansas City Kings and New York Knicks. He is now the Washington […]

BracketBusters Weekend to Provide Quality Games: ESPN announced the pairings in the made-for-TV BracketBusters slate of games Feb. 22-24. The made-for-TV event highlights some of the best teams from the mid-major conferences. The marquee match up is probably Drake at Butler — a clash of two top 15 teams. At […]