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NCAA baseball is not affected because there is no money in it. "Follow the money."

The NCAA is in business. The product they sell is March Madness. They are in partnership with the Membership Schools who create the opportunity for the Tourney to exist by buying the best young players in the world. The Tourney money is then split between the NCAA and the Schools, leaving the...

By all means lets treat athletes the way we treat grad students -- this means they can get paid for promoting products, make money selling branded products with images from their likeness, have no restrictions on travel and food gifts, are free to get tutoring (ie, workouts) with whatever...

Killings was here for two years.

As a fat, balding, past middle age old fart who never could play worth a damm, but as someone who has interviewed a number of pro coaches in many sports, I am here to tell you they are none of them perfect. They make all kinds of game time mistakes that often get overlooked because, "hey, he's...

Sanogo, Whaley, Martin, Adams/Gaffney (pick your poison), Cole. We win.

Don't understand the consensus that Cole will start over Gaffney. Cole is undersized and his stats at Howard will not translate in a high major conference (think Tarin Smith). Last year showed that Hurley really likes Gaffney's game (more than I do, anyhow) and after a year of conditioning I...

All it takes is one organization, say Miami or Boston, with a very late first round pick who looks at Bouk and see's his potential, and believes they can develop him to achieve that potential, and he's gone. Especially after seeing what happened to Akok.

We loose these games at crunch time because our senior guards throw the ball around recklessly and we don't have a "go to" scorer who can get a bucket at the end of a game. I was hoping Bouknight was gonna be that guy, but he's a little lost right now, and we don't have any one else to fill that...

Tough to loose Polley Time for Bouknight to step up and Sid to catch fire

Bouk

The rebounding was even: (offensive+defensive) 10+27 for Uconn, 11+23 for Indiana. It was the turnovers and shooting that cost us, nothing else.

It's absolutely shocking that a senior is playing so much better than he was as a freshman or sophomore. I doubt I've ever seen that kind of improvement before; except maybe all the time, like with Hilton Armstrong or Kentan Facey or Niels Giffey or ( add your choice here) ...

Tin Cup is a movie about a golfer who has a problem playing it safe and always "goes for it." Made by the same writer/director who did "White Men Can't Jump" and "Bull Durham." It's a funny movie.

Just remember that Tin Cup lost. And nothing is more fun than winning.

Polly is a limited player with a number of flaws, but his lack of production in the first half was a result of the guard play - he can't score if he never touches the ball. The inability to get Polly the ball in the last five minutes, after he proved that he could make his shots, is the biggest...

Polley was 4 of 5 from the field, 4 of 4 from 3. Including him with the other two culprits is inaccurate.

I love Halloween in our small village on the Hudson. The kids all meet at the firehouse nearby and are escorted by the firetrucks that block off all other car traffic. It was windy but warm and we had about 150 kids come by in about 15 minutes. Nice thing about the parade system is that it goes...

This year it's addition by subtraction - Cobb, Williams and Yakwe would have no chance to make this team.

Very happy for AB, hope he sticks with the Pacers.

Our 4th date was to see the Staten Island Yankees. She is OK with minor league baseball for the atmosphere, but would not consider going to a Pro or College game, any sport. When we're together in the house I'm allowed to watch pretty much what I want, but only with the audio muted, which is no...

Ralph Sampson.

I don't quite get the anger here. These depositions have nothing to do with the "racism" case that KO is bringing separately against Uconn, they are merely to depose the people that the NCAA deposed; it's the basic right of cross examination. I wish that KO would drop the case, I wish that...

Jalen was a talented but frustrating player to root for. He could go to his right and eurostep his way to some incredible baskets, was an excellent pull up midrange scorer, and was unselfish with the ball. Unfortunately he was the same player as a sophomore as he is today; careless with the...

KP wanted out. The Knicks get to unload the last of the Jackson/Mills money in Lee & Hardaway. They get 2 future 1st round picks that they can use as trade chips, They get Dennis Smith to either start at PG or use in a trade. They will have a top 5 pick this year. They are perfectly positioned...

I will believe this when it happens, not before.

Thank you for that note of sanity, but (other than your opinion about AB) it's what I've come to expect from you.

When the Yankees are bad they still average more fans than the Knicks do when they sell out. Even the Mets have higher attendance than the Knicks - only once in the last 30 years has Met attendance dropped to under 19K a game. Brooklyn, which is a whole other city within the city, is so crazy...

I spend about 2 months a year working in Boston and while they may have better fans (debatable) they have way less of them - Boston is a quarter the size of NY in population. Which is why NY hosts 2 baseball, 2 basketball, 2 football (if you count the Jets as a real football team) and 3 hockey...

As a Knicks fan, I have no interest in a college coach with zero NBA experience, no experience with big ego'd one and done type players, and no experience in a major media market (no, Phildadelphia is not.) Everyone will bring up Brad Stevens, but I'd rather bring up Hoiberg, PJ Carlisimo...

NYC is first and foremost an everything town. It's the best baseball town, the best basketball town and ask the Giants and Rangers what it's like to win a hockey or football title here. It's a metro area with 20 million mostly crazed sports fans - there's nothing remotely like it on this continent.

You got a jem. Excellent recruiter, good guy, who was buried by the chaos here at Uconn.

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That's the point, his deficiencies didn't outweigh his strengths, except in your perception. He was a net positive player in his time here, although not as positive as I would have hoped for. There is a big difference between "not as good as hoped for" and "not good at all." I will await your...

That was a highlight reel but these are his G league stats (per 36 minutes) : 10.5/11.8/4.1. He was 1st in the league in blocks, he was 7th in defensive rating. His strengths, which pains you to ever acknowledge, will get him a backup roll in the NBA where his deficiencies, which are all you...