Thursday, November 29th, 2012
I am loathe to ever write anything positive about Duke basketball, but credit needs to be given where it's due. On Wednesday night senior Mason Plumlee took an alley-oop pass from sophomore guard Quinn Cook and threw it down with authority.
The above video shows just how insane a dunk it ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
Thirty years after pulling off perhaps the greatest upset in college basketball history, tiny Chaminade University knocked off the Texas Longhorns 86-73 in the first round at the Maui Invitational on Monday night. It came almost exactly 30 years after the Silverswords beat a No. 1-ranked Virginia team led by ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
For the second time in 10 days an ambulance was sent to the home of Texas Tech head basketball coach Billy Gillispie Tuesday night. Gillispie is currently on leave from the school as it investigates his leadership of the program.
Jeff Baker, a sergeant with the Lubbock Police Department, said Tuesday ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2012
University of North Carolina chancellor Holden Thorp clearly wants to do something about the academic scandal that has continued to haunt his university and its athletic department over the past few years. The school has now enlisted former North Carolina governor James G. Martin to lead an independent review of ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Shabazz Muhammad was the consensus top basketball recruit in the country for 2012, and UCLA pulled off a huge recruiting coup when they landed the 6'6" shooting guard. But now Muhammad has been ruled ineligible for a preseason exhibition tour in China with the Bruins because of an ongoing NCAA ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2012
Great piece of reporting by theWashington Post on the state of the University of Maryland's athletic department and its financial woes. Liz Clarke does a great job illustrating the damage universities can do to themselves when they spend too much and rely too much on ticket revenue to make up ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
After losing Charlotte to Conference USA and Temple to the Big East, the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Conference appeared destined to spiral down the crapper like a stale floater on a scorching hot summer afternoon. Alas, the clouds dissipated and two beacons of light shined down from the heavens in the forms ...
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