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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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
A study just came out that more or less proves that the college athletes so many people love to watch and gush over (especially in keeper leagues, which I only recently extricated myself from) mostly live below the poverty line because of the way their scholarships work. That isn’t to ...
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
It's official, college basketball powers North Carolina and Michigan State will play a game on the deck of an aircraft carrier. A matchup that has been rumored for months has finally been agreed to and given final approval, as the two teams will face each other on the flight deck ...
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
In his first interview since being fired by the University of Tennessee, Bruce Pearl told Atlanta radio station 790 The Zone that he thinks he'll get another chance at coaching in college basketball again. Pearl was fired on March 21 for committing multiple NCAA violations. Despite that, he thinks he ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
The SEC submitted its suggestions for changes to NCAA rules regarding recruiting athletes. And surprise, surprise, the SEC's representatives want to make their own jobs easier. While I'm definitely not here to defend the NCAA's byzantine policies regarding everything, it's still pretty funny that there aren't a whole lot of ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Ah, the NBA. Only in that league does Billy Knight get to be a GM, Donald Sterling gets to keep owning a team, Vinny Del Negro gets multiple jobs as a head coach, and a pissy Deron Williams gets to run off a legend like Jerry Sloan before being traded ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Take one look at the above picture and you'll instantly know why people in Indiana love Tom Crean. Despite three years of tough sledding on the court, Crean has the heart of the Hoosier State. The picture shows Crean and his wife Joanie helping in the search for missing Indiana ...
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
One of my favorite parts of Gregg Easterbrook's weekly "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" column/novel on ESPN.com is his recognition of Christmas Creep. Though that title may suggest an expose of pedophiles dressed as Santa Claus, it's actually his latest example of someone putting up Christmas displays in their store around the ...
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Gary Williams' seat has now been filled. It took Mark Turgeon roughly 24 hours to decide to leave Texas A&M to take over the basketball program at the University of Maryland, and he will be introduced on Wednesday in College Park. Though he said it was a difficult decision, Turgeon ...
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