09.11.08 Fast Breaks
It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, and we’re trying to get back into gear here… Reason #73 to love college basketball – apparently, us. Sweet. How about reason #70 – Duke is All Things...
View Article09.03.09 Fast Breaks
On the eve of college football’s start… let’s get caught up on the news and notes from the last week in roundball. Preaching to the Choir. Gary Parrish wrote an article that was ostensibly about the...
View ArticleThe Texas/ESPN Television Deal: What It Means
Andrew Murawa is an RTC correspondent. When it was announced on Wednesday that the University of Texas and ESPN had come to terms on a 20-year, $300 million agreement to create a 24-hour television...
View ArticleMorning Five: 05.04.11 Edition
Chalk this one up as weird, but one of Gonzaga’s returning players, Demetri “Meech” Goodson, is giving up his senior season in Spokane to transfer back home to play… football? You read that...
View ArticleMorning Five: 05.06.11 Edition
Clearly the massive news of Thursday, and really, the entire offseason thus far, was the announcement that longtime Maryland coach and ACC curmudgeon-in-charge, Gary Williams, is retiring. We covered...
View ArticleMorning Five: 07.28.11 Edition
It’s roughly 16 months away, but when is discussing the tropical paradise of Maui a bad thing? The Maui Invitational released its roster of invited teams for its November 2012 island tournament, and...
View ArticleThe Shame of College Sports: The CliffsNotes Version
The average American can read between 300 to 500 words per minute. If you’re at the high end of this range, it would still take you roughly a half-hour to read Taylor Branch’s seminal 14,573-word...
View ArticleMorning Five: 05.10.12 Edition
The biggest news to release on Wednesday was that the ACC has renegotiated its television rights deal with ESPN in light of the fact that it has added two additional members. The twin poaching of...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.14.12 Edition
After making numerous people mad over the weekend with its ‘top perceived cheater’ query of a sample of the nation’s college basketball coaches, CBSSports.com kept the hits coming on Monday with its...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.15.12 Edition
In what seems to be a summer rite of passage involving several of the top recruits entering college basketball, UCLA’s Shabazz Muhammad is the latest and greatest elite prospect whose eligibility the...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.22.12 Edition
From the time-on-his-hands department, we move to the curious tweeting of former North Carolina, Florida Atlantic and SMU head coach, Matt Doherty. The former Tar Heel — both as a player (1980-84) and...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.24.12 Edition
You know you’re doing something right in a lawsuit if the defendant’s attorneys start attacking the plaintiff’s ringleader long before the discovery phase ends. According to this report from The...
View ArticleMorning Five: 09.07.12 Edition
Thursday’s buzz revolved around two head coaches who are no strangers to controversy — let’s start with the much more successful of the two, Connecticut’s Jim Calhoun. In a piece provided to SI.com by...
View ArticleMorning Five: 10.03.12 Edition
It’s officially considered preseason when the various Top 25s start rolling out from the more reputable sources, and even though we’re still aghast that The Sporting News no longer publishes its...
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