ESPN Marathon of Hoops Live Blog
11/17/08 11:45pm ET – Greetings, fellow hoop lovers, and welcome to the ESPN 24-hour Marathon of Hoops Rush The Court live blog. John Stevens, here, ready to truly kick off the college hoops season in...
View ArticleATB: Quiet Before the Storm
News & Notes. We’d like to take a moment at the beginning of tonight’s ATB to honor former Cal head coach and legendary big man guru Pete Newell, who died today at the age of 93. He led Cal to...
View ArticlePete Newell: A Basketball Legend
We felt bad giving such short shrift to Pete Newell yesterday in our ATB wrapup, so we wanted to take an opportunity to give our condolences to the Newell family and also educate young readers on just...
View Article12.04.08 Fast Breaks
It’s been a while since we did this consistently, but now that we actually know which games will be played more than 24 hours in advance it’s time to get back into our routine of providing you with the...
View ArticleATB: Gettin’ Chismed
Big East/SEC Invitational. This is so ridiculous. Tonight was the opening night of yet another conference challenge series invitational that theoretically is a great idea, but is executed all wrong...
View ArticleThoughts On The Sporting News’ Top 50 Coaches List…
By now you’ve probably seen the list published earlier this week by The Sporting News naming their Fifty Greatest Coaches of All Time, across all sports. And most likely you’ve at least seen that the...
View ArticlePac-12 Mount Rushmore
The history of this conference is pretty lopsided. UCLA has won 11 national championships while all the other schools in the conference combine for five titles with no other school winning more than...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.21.12 Edition
In one of the shortest collegiate careers that we’ve quite frankly ever seen, Kansas freshman Milton Doyle has already decided that he’s had enough in Lawrence. That’s right, Doyle, still some...
View ArticleWhy Isn’t California Basketball a Monster?
During the Glory Years of Cal basketball, Pete Newell had the Bears playing at an elite level year after year. How elite? Newell’s Golden Bears beat John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins eight straight times...
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