One of the teams quietly on the rise this college basketball season has been the Baylor Bears. Led by Coach Scott Drew and an exceptionally talented backcourt, the Bears have reeled off several big wins and are surprise contenders in the Big 12. Big wins have brought frequent sellouts to the Ferrell Center for the [...]

 
Fire Kelvin Sampson!
You fire him now and not let him coach the rest of the season. Send a message to the sports world that it is not OK to cheat. Sampson has lied and cheated. To his bosses, to parents, to young players and to the public. If you keep him then you [...]

Here goes another round of speculation. Things change rapidly. The Road to the Final Four starts here.
SOUTH
@Little Rock
1) Memphis (22-0) vs. 16) Morgan St (13-7)
8 ) St Mary’s (18-3) vs. 9) Mississippi (16-4)
@Washington DC
4) Notre Dame (17-4) vs. 13) Davidson (15-6)
5) Butler (20-2) vs. 12) Maryland (15-8)
@Anaheim
3) Stanford (19-3) vs. 14) CS-Northridge (14-6)
6) Texas A&M [...]

Brackets this early are a crapshoot. But here goes with an update in about two weeks. You can see from my original post a a week ago some of my seeds have already changed.
PROJECTIONS.
SOUTH
@Little Rock
1) Memphis (20-0) vs. 16) Alabama St (7-7) / Norfolk St (9-9)
8 ) Mississippi St (14-6) vs. 9) St Joseph’s (13-5)
@Anaheim
4) [...]

Ok, time to go out on a limb and make some predictions. Feel free to make your own.
#1 Seeds- Memphis, Duke, Kansas, Washington State
#2 Seeds- UNC, Tennessee, UCLA, Indiana
#3 Seeds- Dayton, Texas, Wisconsin, Georgetown
#4 Seeds- Stanford, Butler, Kansas State, Pittsburgh
Just missed: Xavier, Marquette, Vanderbilt, Drake

I read this article the other day about Live Event blogging and how sports are trying to put an end to this. Check out the full article here, but here is a brief little blurb:
For years, we’ve been pointing out how ridiculous it is for professional sports leagues to try to claim ownership of [...]

“Winning is the only thing” is a widely-quoted sports proverb. This hardly novel idea takes more away from the [...]

And my answer is NO!
Let’s look at the mindset many people have. They buy tickets - sometimes for high prices - absolutely have the right to boo a team for bad performance. You bought the ticket, you have the right.
But the real question isn’t do you have the right to boo. The question is “Should [...]

          I can gamble at casinos. I can abuse my children. I can sexual harass people and I can file for bankruptcy and STILL referee the Big Ten games. What? Maybe I can change the outcome of a game. Call me the Pete Rose of football!
The Big Ten said Wednesday it will immediately adopt [...]

NO. NO. NO.
1. Athletics is secondary. The majority of the student population is not made up of athletes, but of young men and women who value that degree so much that they pay thousands of dollars to obtain it. College and universities are for education first.

2.If you pay athletes, tuition will go [...]