Archive for the ‘College Basketball’ Category
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Back in June, I wrote that the NCAA was coming down harshly on the University of North Dakota for its "offensive" mascot simply because the NCAA was too afraid to go after the more powerful member institutions and too weak to actually enforce its own rule.
Since then, laws have been ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
Oh, how I long for the days of UNLV players partying in a hot tub with a shady booster being the biggest scandal in college sports.
Syracuse fired basketball assistant coach Bernie Fine on Sunday when it became undeniably clear that the guy is a serious creep. That was the same ...
Posted in College Basketball, Syracuse | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Less than a week after warning us about the dangers of lionizing coaches to the point where they were bigger than the institutions they represent, the media went ahead and lionzed a coach to the point where he is bigger than the institution he represents.
Mike Krzyzewski became the winningest men's ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
It has been a tough few years in the land of the Hoosiers, as the Indiana University's team has gone 28-66 over the first three years of the Tom Crean Era. Crean had the unenviable task of rebuilding the program from the smoking pile of rubble left by former head ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Pitt/'Cuse make the mediocre slightly mediocre-er
The obvious news from Monday is that Syracuse and Pittsburgh both left the Big East for the ACC. Everyone knows this was a money move, since super conferences are coming, but there's no way this move really makes the ACC any better in football. The ...
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