Students, alumni – and fans – have to be mighty proud to be associated with the University of Connecticut. After all, both its men’s and women’s basketball teams won national titles this week. The UConn men defeated the Kentucky Wildcats… Read More ›
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2014 NCAA Tourney Is Calipari’s Best Coaching
The college basketball world’s nightmare is on the verge of coming true: John Calipari becoming a national champion (again). That’s right folks, the poster child of the “one and done”scenario that has fans, the NCAA, and college basketball seething is… Read More ›
Union Ruling for College Athletes Bad for NCAA
The Chicago district of the National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday that Northwestern football players qualify as employees of the university and can unionize. This has the potential of being a HUGE game-changer in collegiate athletics. If the student-athletes are… Read More ›
2014 NCAA Tournament Preview
March Madness is here! The college basketball conferences have finished, and the 2014 NCAA Tournament bracket had been announced on CBS and ESPN (by the way, ain’t it cool that you could watch BOTH online – for FREE?!). There were… Read More ›
Should the Fan Bear Some Responsibility for Altercation w/ Smart?
There is a time for everything in life. There is a time to respond to something. There is a time to restrain from doing something. Both of those statements collided in last night’s Oklahoma State-Texas Tech men’s basketball game. During… Read More ›
2013-2014 Men’s College Basketball Preview
College basketball is back! WHOO-HOO!!! This is a season of change. The ACC welcomes Syracuse, Pittsburgh, and Notre Dame (join in football already!!!) to join its powerhouses Duke and UNC. The “new” Big East broke away from what is now… Read More ›
Grant of Rights Deal Great for ACC; Cincinnati and UConn Biggest Losers
I wonder what those bloggers are thinking now? Are those haters/hacks from West Virginia sad that the Atlantic Coast Conference is here to stay (at least for the next 14 years)? Those are some of the questions I had on… Read More ›