September 18th, 2008
Wouldn’t it be nice if this were Oct. 19 instead of Sept. 19?
- Which Great White Hope is actually a better player? – maybe we’ll delve into that sometime soon. Gary Parrish takes a look now.
- The seemingly snakebitten AJ Price from UConn is supposedly all the way back from offseason ACL surgery. In completely unrelated news, UConn has added Lojack to all of its campus laptops.
- In a somewhat odd twist, the NCAA directed Indiana to delay its response to the latest allegations from the Kelvin Sanctions scandal last spring. The university now has until Sept. 26 to craft its response. Someone go on vacation?
- Seth Davis writes a pretty good recount of what five teams – Kansas, Missouri, Purdue, S. Illinois and Notre Dame – did on their Labor Day weekend trips.
- Remember Illinois guard Jamar Smith? – he received 18 months probation for his alcohol violation stemming from his DUI arrest last spring. He plans to play for S. Indiana next season (yeah, that’s what we said too).
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June 6th, 2008
It was just around 2 years ago that a fresh-faced youngster from Duke University decided to pop back a few Zimas (along with his collar) and take a late night drive around Durham before the NBA Draft. Now comes news out of Chapel Hill that Ty Lawson (basically the antithesis of Redick–UNC, black, athletic, no shot versus Duke, white, unathletic, and great shot) decided to do essentially the same thing. Let’s take a look at the results.
Two years ago, J.J. Redick stumbled into the Durham County Jail:
Polo shirt + bleary-eyed look + messed up hair + semi-popped collar = Perfection
After seeing what the ACC’s all-time scorer did 2 years before, let’s see what Lawson was able to pull off:
First off, Lawson looks pretty normal here. He looks pretty composed and is staring straight ahead at the camera. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought this was his team photo from the look on his face. If Ty wants to move into J.J. territory and possibly land on The Smoking Gun he needs a lot of work. I’m not a fan of the white t-shirt for these photos, but at least spill something on it. Show a little effort, Ty!
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Posted by nvr1983
May 8th, 2008
If you haven’t heard yet, West Virginia coach and new twenty-millionaire Bob Huggins tripped over a cone (ice cream? bustier? oh, traffic, right) at the Charlotte airport today, banging his head against the pavement. He was taken to a local Charlotte hospital for observation, but he apparently will be fine.
Must. Resist. Urge. To. Make. Tasteless. Alcohol. Joke.
So instead…
There must be a video of this incident somewhere – let us know if you can find it.
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August 27th, 2007
In the spirit of the new school year and the imminent college football season…
- First we offer the top 10 party schools in America. Looking at the top 5, might there be a link between hedonism, the South and football?
- Speaking of the dirty South, this future Clemson grad wants us to know that she has ”the Iraq’s” education on her mind, er, something like that…
- Moving back to our bread & butter, in a tragedy of Odin-esque proportions, Oregon plans to take Phil Knight’s $100M largesse and use it to build a new on-campus arena. Sadly, McArthur Court will be tossed into the dustbin of great historical arenas. Why doesn’t UO end the charade and just call themselves the Oregon Nikes from now on?
- Richard Jefferson donated $3.5M to his alma mater Arizona for their new practice facility. But he’s still only the third best UA alum in the NBA, according to fellow Cat Agent Zero.
- SLAM put out its early top 25 last week. Intriguing omissions – Duke, Florida, Oregon. Say what inclusions? – Clemson, Alabama, Cal.
- Mike DeCourcey at TSN picks five teams from which he believes a 2008 champion will emerge – Georgetown, UNC, Kansas, UCLA and Memphis.
- All kinds of knee problems – Syracuse guard Andy Rautins blew out his left knee during the Tournament of the Americas while playing for Team Canada - the Cuse’s leading returning three-point shooter will miss the entire 2007-08 season. Duke’s David McClure (6-8 weeks) and Bama’s Ronald Steele (ditto) also had less serious knee surgeries last week – both are expected to be 100% by the season.
- Illinois guard Jamar Smith will miss the season due to his DUI arrest in February. He will be eligible to return to the team in the 2008-09 season. Oh, and Jeff Goodman reminds us that Bruce Weber still can’t recruit.
- From the rumor mill –
- Word is pickup basketball at UCLA got heated Monday when Golden State star point guard Baron Davis engaged in some trash-talking with heralded Southern Cal freshman point guard O.J. Mayo. Davis got upset with Mayo after he didn’t respect one of Davis’ calls. Word is Davis, a native of Los Angeles, told Mayo that he doesn’t know who he is other than the fact that he wasn’t from Los Angeles and he also needed to respect a veteran’s call. Word is Mayo more than held his own in the games. (h/t to Bruin Report Online)
- Former ECU head coach Ricky Stokes has been paid $250,000 to not take the administrative job originally offered him after his demotion.
- In a sad and bizarre end to what was probably a tortured life, former one-and-done Seton Hall star Eddie Griffin died of an apparent suicide last week when he drove his car into a moving train. RIP Eddie.
- Finally, from the opposite end of the spectrum, Butch van Breda Kolff, former Princeton coach and hoops purist, died at 84 last week. As head coach, he led Bill Bradley’s Princeton Tigers to the 1965 Final Four, its only appearance. RIP Butch.
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