I have made the statement that teams that rely on the 3-point shot rarely have a tough mentality. They are white-collar, and because they do...Read More
I was really surprised to see this young man show up on the California roster this season (7-3 freshman). I saw him play, along with his bro...Read More
San Jose State is definitely a mid-major, and not exactly a powerhouse, since they finished 4-26 last season. But this season their roster g...Read More
Larry Eustachy has left a trail of sleeze behind him in his coaching career. Niko Medved inherited the unenviable task of purging the Colora...Read More
UEFA Champions League continued tonight with the two remaining Spanish Football representatives scheduled for their respective Group matches...Read More
UEFA Champions League action tonight with two Spanish Football Clubs scheduled for their Group match duties. Important games for both Clubs ...Read More
This position ought to be one of the strengths of the team, and at this point I would hate to have to guess who will be starting. Last seaso...Read More
If Jamie Dixon leads TCU to the NCAA tournament this season, it will be the first time since 1952-53 that they have appeared in back-to-back...Read More
Is there a lack of good American female golfers of college age? Or in America do they perhaps go a different path in their development than ...Read More
This is probably our strongest position (which is a very good thing to be able to say). We have some depth, and we have some experience. Fir...Read More
SPAIN hosted ENGLAND for their Group clash of the UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE. Important match for both as a Spanish win tonight would have put them...Read More
The Spanish National Football Team travelled to WALES to play a Friendly International match in the city of Cardiff. This game was another o...Read More
Savannah State will be moving down to D2, it has been announced. I salute their honesty. The gap between #1 and #300+ in the list of D1 team...Read More
France Football made public today their initial 30 candidates for the upcoming FRANCE FOOTBALL GOLDEN BALL AWARD 2018. The winner will be an...Read More
I enjoy watching programs that have been down and rooting for them to get things turned around again. DePaul has been on the bottom of the h...Read More
Unless some other players show up late, it surely does look like that Coach Walker does not have big expectations for this first season and ...Read More
I like blue-collar basketball teams: hard-working, no-nonsense, hard rebounding, smothering half-court defense - that sort of stuff. Here is...Read More
We likely would never have a chance of picking up a one-and-done player, but just for the sake of discussion: is it better to have a very go...Read More
Hack Wilson holds the major leage baseball record for RBIs in a single season. At one point he was the highest-paid player in the National L...Read More
The cheaters in college basketball are in the cross-hairs of the FBI. If they are indeed guilty, I hope they lock them up and throw away the...Read More
Arkansas 30 UCA 223 ASU 291 PB 307 LR 308 Pine Bluff nudged us out last season for last place among the D1 teams in Arkansas. Given that UC...Read More
(from NBC Sports) The Golden Eagles have been a train-wreck on the defensive end of the floor for two years, and we�ve reached the point whe...Read More
I would love to see a poll of coaches as to which of their cohorts is the best coach - minus recruiting. Just simply at teaching the game an...Read More
Kris Bankston led the team in blocks as a true freshman with 30. This makes me wonder how well he might do over the course of his career. Ev...Read More
What should we expect from this team. Obviously to work hard and listen to coaches, but what about in wins and losses, and position within t...Read More
If he has any kind of personality and work ethic at all, Coach Charles Baker ought to be a valuable in-state recruiter because of all his co...Read More
When you expect nothing, you are guaranteed to beat your expectations. That is about where the Trojans are this season. We could be downrigh...Read More
I have been rough on Jaizec Lottie for his performance last season. His numbers were fairly pathetic. But in all honesty, they were made on ...Read More
I think every Little Rock fan is excited about the prospect of having Markquis Nowell on the roster. After all, he may just be the most high...Read More
One of the concerns I had early about this new staff was its total lack of D1 experience. However, the late addition of Charles Baker as an ...Read More
I know I am a reactionary, but I think the transferring of scholarship players from one D1 school to another needs to be tightened up, not l...Read More
Alltel (now Verizon) Arena was too big for us. We could have a nice-sized crowd, and it still had the feel of a pea bouncing around inside a...Read More
We have eleven players on our roster. I gather that one of them is probably a walk-on. Pictures have already been posted, which leads me to ...Read More
Since they do not play in the same conference, I sometimes forget that Wisconsin and Marquette have a natural rivalry that has been going on...Read More
Kansas has led a charmed life in their streak of Big 12 championships. It is just unlikely that a program would go that long and not have ke...Read More
CBS Sports asked college basketball coaches if they thought there would be more FBI changes in the cheating scandal. Here was the answer of ...Read More
For a while a few years back volleyball was a powerhouse sport for us. Coach Compton had a recruiting connection to the Eastern European cou...Read More
According to Mid Major Madness website, Chicago State has had one winning season since 1985 and has lost 75% of their games in their 34 year...Read More
The fans in this program badly, badly need someone with a reasonably good connection to the staff and good social media skills to keep us i...Read More
The NCAA transfer rule is just a mechanism for the rich to rob the poor. And, of course, the rich like it just fine like it is. Which is why...Read More
Kris Bankston may be our most critical player this season, what with our lack of true big men and proven inside players. He has proven he ca...Read More
A while back several of our better volleyball players were from Eastern Europe. It appears now, however, that our foreign pipeline has shift...Read More
Back in the good old days power forwards were just that: bruisers who crashed the boards and played killer defense. Not so these days. Now w...Read More
With a few notable exceptions, when a lower-level team has a great run in the NCAA tournament, they tend to be ranked highly in the early po...Read More
The World Championship chess match in 1972 between Bobby Fisher and Boris Spassky was high drama. It was in the middle of the Cold War and w...Read More
Chris Beard came into Little Rock with zero D1 head coaching experience and won 30 games, so we can say with confidence that he is a very go...Read More
Several teams have taken pre-season trips to Canada in recent years, and frequently the Canadian teams have held their own pretty well. Of c...Read More
I am very concerned about our lack of height this season, and it is primarily on the defensive end, since the 3-point shot has made size pre...Read More
I am not a fan of run-and-gun basketball, mainly because it generally is sloppy. However, for us to have any chance of winning much this yea...Read More
Almost every year some team that we would not consider to be from a power conference steps up and make a splash during the season - either r...Read More
Whenever the subject of great outfield arms arises, the name Roberto Clemente inevitably arises. As a great all-round ballplayer, he was leg...Read More
Back in the 1990s, Spaniard Miguel Indurain was the dominant road cyclist in the world, winning the Tour de France five times. My family mad...Read More
Two-star by Rivals. Played in Brooklyn. Plus he is 6-8, and on this height-starved team, that means something. And he had interest from Memp...Read More
Back when I used to make predictions for the upcoming SBC season, one of the factors I weighted most heavily was returning starters. I took ...Read More
I have to admit that I am not a fan of European-style big men. What is the benefit of having a big man if he plays like he is a little man? ...Read More
I continue to think that Lottie has potential, but his numbers last season were very disappointing. His 1.32 A/TO ratio was very low for a p...Read More
In the realm of rebounding in the NBA, there is the Big Two, and then the rest of them. For his career, Wilt Chamberlain averaged 22.9 board...Read More
FIFA has announced today their 10 Candidates for THE BEST AWARD 2018. There are no Spanish born players but as expected many who currently p...Read More
The big question about Deondre is whether or not he will come back at the level at which he played in the 2016-17 season (41% from the arc, ...Read More
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar averaged over 20 points/game for 17 years. (For twelve of those years he also averaged double figures in rebounding.) I ...Read More
On paper and on film, Nowell looks like the biggest recruit we have had since possible Will Neighbour, maybe ever. First off, his day-to-day...Read More
Once again we have a mid-level school who had great success, and now faces the challenge of keeping its coach. The vast majority of the time...Read More
Everyone is waiting for REAL MADRID CF to make a signing BOMB announcement. The exit of Cristiano Ronaldo lifts expectations as that the voi...Read More
I notice on the early leaderboard at The Open that there is a golfer named Na (Kevin, from the US) and one named An (Byeong Hun, from Korea)...Read More
I have long been a big fan of Jamie Dixon. Pitt found out very quickly just how foolish they were to have let him get away. He came to his a...Read More
Most college coaches today fall all over themselves to sign a 5-star player, who is almost certain (under the current rules) to leave after ...Read More
We see so little of what goes on behind the scenes in the program that our observations are almost meaningless. However, the sequence of the...Read More
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