Pac-10 Offseason Update by Scott Allen Arizona Chris Dunn, who redshirted last year, is no longer enrolled at the school and will not compete in the 2003-04 season. Junior center Channing Frye and junior guard Salim Stoudamire were named to the Wooden Award Preseason Team. The Wildcats will be celebrating […]
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Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Saturday, October 11th Case Dismissed, Mostly: The Big East has dropped the ACC from its lawsuit over conference expansion. Connecticut judge Samuel Sferrazza dropped the conference from consideration in the suit, which now has Miami as the sole defendant in an alleged plot to weaken the […]
College Football vs. Hoops
College Football is Nice, but . . . by Michael Ermitage It was early September and a fresh college football season was born anew. Chris Fowler was back again playing his referee role to the sparring Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit. I was planted firmly on the couch, shorts and […]
Metro Atlantic Offseason News
Metro Atlantic Offseason Update by Adam Shandler Conference Racks Up: The MAAC needed a Mack truck to take home all the hardware it collected at the NIT/Met Basketball Writers Association’s 70th annual Haggerty Awards held in May. At the ceremony, staged at the New Jersey Meadowlands, Manhattan’s Luis Flores received […]
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The Morning Dish – Friday, October 10th No Thanks: Todd Turner, seven-year AD at Vanderbilt before school chancellor Gordon Gee eliminated the athletic department, has said ‘no thanks’ to a new position serving under Gee as the schools special assistant for athletic and academic reforms. Gee had absorbed the athletic […]
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The Morning Dish – Thursday, October 9th NIT Payback: The National Invitation Tournament is working to get back cash given to teams that used ineligible players. Minnesota is close to an agreement on compensation for using ineligible players in their 1996 and 1998 NIT appearances. The Minnesota academic scandal also […]
WAC Offseason Recap
WAC Offseason Recap by Phil Dailey The State of the WAC The Western Athletic Conference as we know it might becoming to a crossroad yet again in the next year or so. For now, Tulsa, Rice and Southern Methodist will remain a fixture in the conference. For those of you […]
Hoops for Thought
Hoops for Thought by Nicholas Lozito Jordan had the tongue wag. D-Miles has the two fist, forehead-tap thingy. McGrady, Iverson and Kobe have the leg sleeve, because you never know when one leg might be colder than the other, right? We’re talking NBA trademarks, folks, and it sounds like former […]
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The Morning Dish – Tuesday, October 7th Indiana Wins: Yesterday Monroe (Indiana) Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Todd ruled in favor of the University of Indiana, thus ending the Bobby Knight lawsuit in Bloomington. The school’s motion for a summary judgment was granted, which effectively ended Knight’s wrongful termination suit without […]
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The Morning Dish – Monday, October 6th Collison Out: Not that we cover much NBA news here in Hoopville, but we do monitor some of our recently departed NCAA studs as they make the transition to the “bigs”. That being said, former Kansas forward Nick Collison, the Sonics’ 12th overall […]
