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ACC M5: 02.03.16 Edition

Matt Patton — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:01:40 +0000

RickPitino.net: Wait, Rick Pitino is the newest ACC basketball blogger (h/t to Card Chronicle)? Pitino hits us with some great Alfred Pennyworth-esque coachspeak in his latest post: “Many get knocked down; you judge character by how they get up.” Beyond the very bloggy writing, you actually get a pretty cool PDF of the team’s “MVP” metrics for Monday night’s game against North Carolina. It turns out that the Louisville coaching staff tracks everything from hockey assists to poor shot selection. Duke Basketball Report: This is a great look at the ACC through the first half of the season from Al Featherston. The league is [...]

A College Basketball Fan’s Guide To Watching The World Cup

jstevrtc — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:36:27 +0000

In less than 48 hours, our televisions will be taken over by the biggest sporting event the world has to offer. Your TweetDeck (or whatever Twitter application you use) will be lousy with friends, celebrities, and sportswriters tweeting about it. Your Facebook friends will be centering their status updates about it. And, for the next five weeks, when you walk into your favorite sports bars, as you peer at the flat-screens you’ll notice an increased presence of a game to which you might not be accustomed.

It’s World Cup time.

Like the Olympics and the Fields [...]

11.10.09 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:58:18 +0000

In getting all the preview stuff together, we lost a little track of the news other than the endless suspensions and injuries…

NCAA Not Backing Down on Renardo Sidney. If the information that Gary Parrish wrote in his “Three Storylines” articles is true, then Mississippi State’s Renardo Sidney may not play this season at all. According to the Sidney family attorney, the NCAA requested additional evidence beyond what the Sidneys gave them two weeks ago — specifically, “records that identify the sources of each [bank] deposit, cellular phone records for every family member since Jan. 1, 2006, records to indicate where every payroll [...]

The Mark Gottfried Effect: The SEC Is Wising Up On Its Coaches

rtmsf — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:26:44 +0000

There’s news coming out of Tuscaloosa tonight that doesn’t involve Nick Saban (although Utah’s demolition of the Tide a month ago may have led to this unrelated breaking news). No, the crimsontided stepchild of Alabama’s athletics program is the one driving the needle tonight – Mark Gottfried’s Philip Pearson’s basketball program. Er, formerly Mark Gottfried’s basketball program.

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Today Alabama announced that Mark Gottfried, arguably the second most successful coach in Bama history (behind the irascible Wimp Sanderson), resigned amidst criticism over the state of his program in light of Ronald Steele’s decision to leave [...]

10.01.08 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:48:24 +0000

It’s Wednesday afternoon, 72 degrees and sunny, and we’re heading outside…

Kelvin Sanctions fires back at Indiana – get this blasted bus off of me! Good news – Bob Knight will be back on your television set in some capacity this winter. Will Digger’s jealous rage get in the way? We like this – which coaches got begotten, er, begatten? Let’s call it the “trickle-down effect” of college basketball. Although unlike the economic version, this kind, you know, actually works? Two weeks ago, we (and our bookies – seriously, the check is on the way) might have been worried about this… luckily, the implosion of [...]

ATB: Pac-10 It In Saturday

rtmsf — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:28:46 +0000

11.17.07

Story of the Day. Siena 79, Stanford 67. We should have known better. Really, we should have. As soon as we started thinking that Stanford was a legit power again, given the way they mowed through their first four opponents with ease (without Brook Lopez, remember), they go and drop a game at Siena. For chrissakes, we even put the Cardinal #12 in our latest blogpoll ballot. This continues a disturbing trend of Trent Johnson teams to inexplicably drop ugly pre-conference games to a mid-major [...]

10.16.07 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:10:43 +0000

An absolute ton of newsworthy stuff to catch up on from the weekend…

2008 #1 player Greg Monroe committed to Georgetown after his visit there this weekend. It couldn’t have had anything to do with that now-ubiquitous Jerry Rice dance, could it? “Hoops” Weiss has the definitive take on how Monroe will impact the Hoyas. Above the Rim writes that Duke (who was hot-n-heavy for Monroe) isn’t used to losing out on these guys. Making the Dance reports that after Georgetown (who obviously had the best MM weekend), Illinois (Bruce Weber can recruit after all?!?!), Indiana, Louisville and several others had good weekends. Lots of [...]

SEC Diversity Redux

rtmsf — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:05:00 +0000

Apparently Gary Parrish hit a sore spot with many SEC fans based on the reaction he received to his article on CBS Sportsline earlier this week. As we stated in our response to his article, not all of the criticism he received is without merit.

Parrish wrote a follow-up article today, which in our opinion, states the essential point that he should have made in the first incarnation. Namely, although it is unfortunate and a bit peculiar that three black coaches left SEC schools (whether willingly or unwillingly) in the past two years, it is not due to racism [...]