For the second consecutive season, a future Kansas Jayhawk has been named the Naismith Boys High School Player of the Year. The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Friday that power forward Cliff Alexander has won the award that Andrew Wiggins won last season. Here’s the press release from the KU athletic department: LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas men’s […]
UConn women dominate AAC awards
March 6, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The UConn women’s basketball team has put together another perfect regular season, so it should come as no surprise that Huskies dominated the awards passed out Thursday by the American Athletic Conference. Here’s the UConn press release detailing the all-conference awards. STORRS, Conn. – The UConn women’s basketball team placed seven players on American Athletic Conference […]
UConn’s Ollie wants to raise another banner – this year
March 6, 2014 by Leave a Comment
CBK Story By Ken Davis, The Sports Xchange Publish Date: March 5, 2014 10:46:56 PM Napier leads No. 19 Connecticut to win over Rutgers STORRS, Conn. — After guard Shabazz Napier had his final glorious moment in a Connecticut home uniform, and after the No. 19 Huskies won for the seventh time in eight games, UConn coach […]
FoxSports.com college basketball power rankings – March 5
March 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Syracuse and Michigan State, two teams with Final Four aspirations, continue to drop in the Power Rankings. Creighton and Saint Louis, two terrific stories for college hoops, both are suddenly suffering through two-game losing streaks. And the battle for the top four seeds in the NCAA Tournament is down to five talented teams. But the […]
Springsteen, E Street Band ready to bust your bracket at Final Four
March 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rocked Super Bowl XLIII at Raymond James Stadium back in 2009, performing a halftime show that included “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” “Born to Run,” and “Glory Days” in Tampa, Fla. Three years later, Major League Baseball honored Springsteen by using “Land of Hope and Dreams” as the theme song […]
Marcus Smart knows how to stir things up
March 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Oklahoma State Marcus Smart is controversial. I think it is safe to say that at this point. He is back from his suspension, trying to get the Cowboys in the NCAA tournament field. After lifting OSU to a big win over Kansas Saturday night, Smart found himself surrounded by controversy once again. Read about it […]
Kansas to rest Embiid for final two regular season games
March 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Kansas has already wrapped up the Big 12 Conference championship outright and will be the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. So coach Bill Self made a decision today that makes a lot of sense. Freshman center Joel Embiid will sit out the final two regular-season games because of a lower back strain. Here’s […]
UConn football hires new director of player engagement
March 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The University of Connecticut football program has a new Director of Player Engagement. David Corley comes to the Huskies from William & Mary and replaces Ernest T. Jones, who resigned from coach Bob Diaco’s staff Feb. 17. Jones was the coach who made the controversial comment to the Hartford Courant, saying UConn players should understand […]
At long last, my first taste of Grapefruit League baseball
March 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
FORT MYERS, Fla. – As a kid growing up in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kan., there was a mythical quality to the idea of spring training baseball, especially a location straight out of paradise known as Fort Myers, Fla. When my beloved Kansas City Royals were born in 1969, they would congregate […]
FoxSports.com college basketball power rankings – Feb. 26
February 27, 2014 by Leave a Comment
We were tempted last week to move Florida to No. 1. And that was before Syracuse lost to Boston College and Duke. We were tempted because the Gators seemed to be playing the best basketball in the land. Our opinion hasn’t changed much, but Florida hasn’t overwhelmed its most recent opponents. So, here at the […]