A March Madness Recruiting Tale

ESPN’s Bob Ley, in Sunday’s excellent Outside the Lines segment on women’s college basketball, illuminated the “feud” between University of Tennessee Women’s basketball head coach, Pat Summit, and the University of Connecticut’s head coach, Geno Auriemma. The rivalry that was reached nasty status this summer when UConn extended a contract to continue the annual regular [...]

Inside Enemy Territory with “The Nugg Doctor”

With Toronto’s game against Denver about to tipoff in a couple hours I’m scrambling to get this up in time so I won’t provide a proper intro. Sorry! A huge thanks goes out to Nick from The Nugg Doctor for stepping in and providing some stellar insight into the Denver Nuggets.
1. Denver is facing the [...]

Buzzer Beaters – 03/23

In this week’s Buzzer Beaters we have links to college basketball players talking smack on Facebook, the scoop on Steve Nash directing his latest commercial for Nike and a picture of Bryan Colangelo during a scouting trip in Europe.
* Hardwood Paroyxsm has a great screen grab of two college basketball players talking smack on Facebook.
* [...]

Duke’s March to Madness

Can we stop with the “ACC is the toughest conference in the nation” nonsense? Can we throw the conference and team “Ratings Percentage Index” nonsense out the window, please?
Belmont, “RPI” 79, took #2-seed in the West Region, Duke and its gaudy RPI of 6 to the brink of extinction. This was a first round matchup [...]

The NBA: Where Marketing Happens

I think it’s about time somebody took a long hard look at the NBA’s marketing strategy for the 2007-08 season. And I don’t mean from a blogger’s point of view, because we’ve all beaten the “Where amazing happens” tagline to death by now. Look around the internet and you’ll find that every basketball blog and [...]

Inside Enemy Territory with “Crazy from the Heat”

A huge thank you goes out to Vivek from Crazy From The Heat for taking part in this version of Inside Enemy Territory. He took part in this column two weeks ago when Toronto and Miami met up, and despite having computer problems he still managed to answer my questions. I gained a lot [...]

March Madness: Key First-Round Matchups

Let’s take the key first-round matchups and begin to dissect them starting within the East bracket. I’ll be writing throughout the evening, so check back often.
East
#6 Oklahoma Sooners 22-11 vs. #11 St. Joseph’s Hawks 21-12, Friday, 7:10 p.m.
Has Blake Griffin fully recovered from minor knee surgery? Has Longar Longar fully recovered from his broken leg? [...]

Roster Magazine: Confessions of a Hoops Addict

Just a quick note to let people know I’ve taken part in a March Madness preview for Roster Magazine. I was asked some questions by Jon Burkett about my favourite March Madness memories, who I’m rooting for this year, who I think will upset a high seed, which player will make a name for himself [...]

Top Three Fantasy Performers – 03/16

First off, I would like to congratulate the Rockets in winning their 22nd straight game this season and having the second longest streak in NBA history. Is 33 wins in a row out of reach?
Seven games on Sunday night and one game was a complete blowout by 52. It’s also unfortunate that the Raps are [...]

Inside Enemy Territory with “My Utah Jazz”

When I first started following the NBA some of my favourite players were Karl Malone, John Stockton, Byron Russel, Austin “Big Dog” Carr and Jeff Hornacek, and with ornery Jerry Sloan leading the team they were my favourite team all through high school. Once Toronto was granted an expansion franchise just over a decade ago [...]

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