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NCAA Basketball · 5 years agoTravis Steele borrowing social media tactics from Chris Mack

Louisville Cardinals coach Chris Mack is heading into the 2019-20 college basketball season with one of the best group of freshmen in the country. Having left the comfy confines of the Xavier Musketeers for a then-embedded in scandal Louisville program, he’s done a more than stellar since taking over for Rick Pitino. Plenty of it […]

Editorials · 5 years agoIt took three decades and a lost golf bet to get Jay Young to the Fairfield Stags

“I still say I owe my career to a lost golf bet.” Jay Young was named the 13th head coach of the Fairfield Stags on April 3. The son of an athletic director and high school coach, Young’s journey didn’t begin in the traditional sense. He wasn’t a former all-everything basketball player. “I played (lacrosse) […]

NCAA Basketball · 5 years agoUNLV Rebels gave Marvin Menzies a raw deal with firing

The UNLV Rebels fired head coach Marvin Menzies after only three seasons with the program. Basically, they gave a previously successful coach just enough time so an athletic department could release a haphazard reason for the termination. “If I’m not confident in where we’re headed, we need to make a change,” UNLV athletic director Desiree […]

Editorials · 5 years agoHBL: NCAA pay-for-play competitor needs elite talent for launch

The Historical Basketball League (HBL) has been gaining steam as of late, most noticeably attracting headlines when announcing former NBA star David West would be the upstart NCAA alternative’s COO. With a planned launch set for June 2020, as well as recent announcements of the eight cities the HBL will call home for its inaugural season, skeptical […]

Editorials · 5 years agoCollege Basketball: Stop Asking ‘The Kids’ To Solve Adult Created Problems

Over the last few years, Millennials supposedly killed multiple archaic business models that relied upon previous generations making poorly thought through decisions. Overpriced food chains, the entire housing market, and whatever else, if something was failing or seeing a decrease in sales, it was the fault of those pesky kids. If the fault wasn’t being […]

NCAA Basketball · 5 years agoCollege basketball: Transparency

Transparency. During the supposedly groundbreaking case featuring three college basketball bagmen, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan announced what most assumed would inevitably come. Federal laws were allegedly broken. Those laws, regardless of reason, have nothing to do with the NCAA. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are here today because the government alleges that Jim Gatto committed […]

NCAA Basketball · 5 years agoElijah Olaniyi: The Stony Brook talent's origin story is unheard of

“I couldn’t sleep. There were times I couldn’t stop thinking about it.” “I got through it by playing basketball. Sometimes I would be in the gym at two in the morning. That would be my escape.” Elijah Olaniyi is one of seven children and the first of his family to be a natural born citizen […]

Editorials · 5 years agoRyan Ridder: Bethune-Cookman Wildcats coach more than just a fresh

Ryan Ridder is the head coach of the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats, but casual fans most likely know him as the baby-faced guy in the MEAC who is only starting his career. It’s a fairly accurate summation of Ridder, who is only 33-years-old, yet it’s void of everything else he has already brought to the table. It’s relentless […]

NCAA Basketball · 5 years agoHurl Liberty Flames feel good NCAA Tournament stories into the sun

The Liberty Flames earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, defeating the Lipscomb Bisons in the Atlantic Sun Tournament final last season. Over the course of the next week or so, carefully curated puff pieces will be written about the program. Stories involving players, head coach Ritchie McKay, and just about everything and […]

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