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The NCAA Enforcement Experience: Are We Getting It Yet?
Seth Davis has an important article today describing his involvement with what the NCAA called "The NCAA Enforcement Experience." This name reminds me very much of "Star Trek: The Experience" that was for years part of the Las Vegas Hilton. But I digress. The NCAA Enforcement Experience is an...
Memphis Blues: Pastner "Indefinitely" Suspends Wesley Witherspoon
[Note by Adrian Mac, 01/14/11 12:12 PM CST ] Update: The Memphis Commercial Appeal's Jason Smith has the story. Apparently, Witherspoon 'mimicked' and 'mocked' a Memphis assistant after the Tigers loss to struggling SMU. Witherspoon even grabbed the microphone on the team bus and did an...
Seth Davis's When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball
Way back in February, a publicity group offered to send me a copy of the paperback edition of Seth Davis's book on Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and the 1979 NCAA championship game. I jumped at the chance, figuring I'd have a long month ahead of me in March with nothing happening on the college...
The Daily Dig: 3.2.10
The #21 UTEP Miners are in Huntington, West Virginia, to take on the Marshall Thundering Herd and their potential NBA lottery pick, 7'0 freshman center Hassan Whiteside. Let's take a look across the C-USA landscape! UTEP MINERS Memphis West? Marshall coach Donnie Jones says that UTEP has become...
Proving Doubters Wrong ...
It's not just Seth Davis who is dismissing Ben Howland's Bruins: Over at Sportsline.com only 1 of our their 4 "experts" is picking UCLA to go beyond the second round. Otherwise everyone else thinks Bruins will be done by this weekend if not Thursday night. Luke Winn from SI.com is "not buying"...
Ben Ball Roundup: Focusing On Thursday Night
Sounds like we all own Seth Davis some thank you notes this week for helping set the mindset of UCLA basketball team. From Dan Webber in the Press Enterprise (emphasis added throughout): Adding insult to injury, of all 65 NCAA teams named Sunday, UCLA was singled out as CBS college basketball...
March 11th Sooner Sports Notebook
March Madness is starting! Can you feel it? I, for one, am going absolutely crazy. No matter how well my teams do in their respective tournaments, I love absorbing the atmosphere, watching all the upsets and buzzer beaters - there's no other time of the year like it. The lead story in...
Review: When March Went Mad: the Game That Transformed Basketball
The title of When March Went Mad: the Game That Transformed Basketball is misleading. It's not a book about the 1979 NCAA Basketball Championship Game between Larry Bird's Indiana State Sycamores and Magic Johnson's Michigan State Spartans, which is still the highest-rated college basketball game...
Assigned reading: The fall of once-mighty St. Johns
Your grandfather's old bocce ball buddy? Nope it's actually a legendary college coach We're all about reminiscing here are SFBE, so this article is right in our wheelhouse. Despite being mediocre and predictable, Seth Davis is a...
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