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Morning Five: 07.17.12 Edition

rtmsf — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:31:06 +0000

The year-plus mystery about how much longer Syracuse and Pittsburgh will play as members of the Big East was partially revealed on Monday, as the conference released terms of an agreement that will allow the Orange to join the ACC in July 2013. The school will pay an exit fee of $7.5 million in return for leaving one year early (league bylaws require over two years of notice), but according to a tweet from Andy Katz, there’s no way that Pittsburgh will remain in the Big East in 2013-14 without Syracuse. Assuming that the Panthers join Syracuse as new members [...]

Morning Five: 06.02.10 Edition

jstevrtc — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:15:03 +0000

St. Bonaventure junior point guard Malcolm Eleby has left the team following charges regarding an on-campus stabbing that occurred back on March 21. He follows fellow guard Lewis Leonard, who left in May, also implicated in the incident. The bad news might not be done in Olean, NY, as two other Bonnies have also been hit with charges. There’ll be no ignoring the elephant in the room at the Big 12 meetings in Kansas City. Commissioner Dan Beebe started the proceedings yesterday with a “plea for staying together.” Given the starry eyes of the B12 member schools as they [...]

Clues as to Tyler Hansbrough’s Return to College

rtmsf — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:29:06 +0000

(h/t The Big Lead)…

We know that NBAers get all kinds of ridiculous tail thrown at them on an hourly basis, but there’s something just a little more wholesome virtuous delicious (yeah, that’s what we meant) when it’s Mary Sue from calculus chemistry sociology class straddling you like a stallion rather than Misty (and her three kids) from Total Platinum.

Anybody know the provenance of these pics? How old they are or what this function was for?

Another Culprit in the Mayo Mess

rtmsf — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:50:39 +0000

In the effluvia of the OJ Mayo report from Outside the Lines (you remember, he took money and gifts from street runner Rodney Guillory, acting as a proxy for the Bill Duffy Agency) the other night, there has been a cacophany of predictable kneejerk reactions from every corner of the media universe.

Tim Floyd and USC are to blame!

The NBA’s 1-and-done rule is to blame!

The NCAA’s lax enforcement is to blame!

AAU basketball, or even worse – the system – is to blame!

There’s a lot of culpability being thrown around by the various pundits, and with good reason on many counts, but [...]

Billy the Kid Fallout

rtmsf — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:15:48 +0000

As expected, the college hoops/NBA blogospheres have been abuzz with thoughts on the reasoning behind Billy Donovan’s decision to leave Florida for the Orlando Magic, as well as speculation as to how well BTK will do when he gets there. As we said on Thursday when the news was breaking, it’s unlikely that Donovan will become an abject failure in the NBA like his mentor Pitino in Boston or several of the other successful college coaches who made that jump – most notably, Carlesimo, Calipari, Tim Floyd, Mike Montgomery and even switching sports with another ex-Gator, Steve Spurrier. [...]