The Morning Dish – Friday, February 6th St. John’s players falsely accused: Three St. John’s basketball players have been suspended from the team, just hours after a woman told police she was raped in a hotel by the men she met in a strip club. The school said leading scorer […]
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Coaching Lifestyle
The Life of a College Basketball Coach by Jim Woods Garden State Parkway: Montvale, NJ Travel Plaza: Burger King, Nathan’s, Dunkin’ Donuts. Route 91 Exit 21: Middletown, CT: The first Wendy’s you can stop at if you travel the Merritt Parkway to Route 91 to get to Hartford from New […]
Rivalry Week
Rivalry Week is a Sham by Michael Ermitage ESPN’s rivalry week is a crock. It’s as fake as Janet Jackson’s breast – the one we saw anyway. As media-manufactured as any tabloid headline. The clear and simple fact is that this week is deemed “Rivalry Week” by the mega-network because […]
Pac-10 Notebook
Pac-10 Conference Notebook by Scott Allen As Ernie Kent and the Oregon Ducks can attest, one half does not a game make. So what should we make of the past five weeks of basketball as the second half of the Pac-10 season kicks off on Thursday? Here’s what we know…and […]
Horizon Notebook
Horizon League Notebook by Nick Dettmann It is time to do a little Bracket Busting. It was announced on Monday, the pairings for Bracket Buster Saturday on Feb. 21. Eight teams from the Horizon League are featured among the 46 mid-major that will participate in the ‘last-chance’ game to impress […]
Big Sky Notebook
Big Sky Conference Notebook by Nicholas Lozito The Slammies For two years I’ve been waiting to see Sacramento State’s dunking duo of Jameel Pugh and Joel Jones do their thing. And Saturday night against Montana, I finally got my wish. Dunk No. 1: As me and my student-radio broadcast partner […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Thursday, February 5th Memphis tops Louisville, going to Disneyland ®: Louisville, who was without Taquan Dean, Francisco Garcia (Francisco Cabrera to Steve Lavin – yes folks, he is getting paid by ESPN), and reserve Nouha Diakite, couldn’t overcome a second half surge by Memphis to avoid […]
Touring the Northeast
Touring Around the Northeast by Phil Kasiecki Eagles’ Skid Continues Despite Valiant Efforts Boston College took on two of the nation’s best teams this past week, with the same result in each one: despite a valiant effort, they fell at Pittsburgh (68-58) and at home against Connecticut (63-58). The Eagles […]
Interview with Brian Beckford
Insight into Brian Beckford by Keith Irizarry If you were 6-7, 185 pounds, a senior in high school, and one of the best basketball players on your team, how would you act? That’s a loaded question, huh? Most 17 or 18 year old kids would be cocky and walk with […]
Patriot League Notebook
Patriot League Notebook by Steve Sheridan Seeing that this is the Patriot League, I would first like to congratulate the New England Patriots on their second Super Bowl victory in three years Sunday night over the Carolina Panthers. And even though no member of the Patriots (or Panthers, for that […]
