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Obiora @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Brandon Jennings, considered the best high school basketball player in the country this past season, will be taking his game to Europe next season because he didn’t ‘pass’ the SATs and so can’t play the requisite one year in college. This move has touched off a lot of speculation about whether American high schoolers […]
Obiora @ May 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
ESPN blew up former USC athlete OJ Mayo and the USC basketball program on Outside the Lines this past weekend. It was a damning and thoroughly well-done piece. And not surprising at all, coming on the heels of the Reggie Bush scandal.
I’m one who believes that 99% of college athletes, even those on […]
Obiora @ May 5, 2008 # One Comment
A occasional column on the state of American college sports on this 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Chris Lofton played an entire season with cancer. Right, CANCER. He went through surgery, radiation therapy and still played the game. Along the way, he led Tennessee to a #1 ranking and a Sweet Sixteen berth. […]
Obiora @ April 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Congratulations to the Kansas Jayhawks for one of the more breathtaking title runs in recent memory. Mario Chalmers’ 3-pointer to force overtime was reminiscent of Christian Laettner’s shot to beat Kentucky in 1992. Except that Chalmers’ shot was in the title game whereas Laettner’s was only in a Regional Final. Memphis certainly deserves much praise […]
SK @ April 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
First off, congrats to the KU Jayhawks for their improbable victory last night. The game was close, but Memphis still appeared to have it in hand throughout the night. This sports fan actually contemplated going to bed with about 5 minutes left in the game, because it actually wasn’t all that exciting until the last two minutes. […]
SK @ April 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Well then. All the number one seeds have survived and are hurtling towards San Antonio for a historic Final Four. And I’m left to wonder about all those losers that randomly picked their brackets, knowing that the four top seeds have never made the final four in any single tournament.
Oh wait, didn’t you do that, […]
SK @ March 26, 2008 # 2 Comments
The first weekend of the big dance is in the books! And what a weekend. Perennial powerhouses Duke and Georgetown are out, and people are wondering when the clock will strike midnight for Cinderellas like Kansas State and Davidson. And I just threw up in my mouth a little after writing that blatant cliche. My apologies.
Our […]
Obiora @ March 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
All hail the Madness! I have some friends in KC who annually take off the first week of the tournament to go to Vegas to watch the games and throw away their money on their Jayhawks’ homerism. Maybe this is the year they hit it big or maybe not.
First though, a couple comments on the […]
SK @ March 19, 2008 # One Comment
Ah, NCAA tournament time. The smell of photocopiers churning out the bracket of 65 is in the air, as people from all ages, all walks of life, and all levels of knowledge put their hard-earned money on the line in the hopes of winning their office pool. And some tool at ESPN is probably actually getting […]
Obiora @ March 12, 2008 # One Comment
The build-up to this past Saturday’s Duke vs North Carolina tilt presented the game as possibly the greatest rivalry in all of collegiate athletics. College sports is built on the passion generated by rivalries. Fan bases are often composed of people who went to the same high schools but went to different colleges. The players […]
Obiora @ March 6, 2008 # 4 Comments
With Selection Sunday less than two weeks away, it’s time to look at the contenders and pretenders heading into the conference tournaments and March Madness.
Contenders
UCLA Bruins (25-3, RPI: 7) - Kevin Love continues to play with a maturity beyond his years. He has posted double-doubles in 11 out of the past 13 games. Darren Collison, […]
Obiora @ February 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday, I posted a story previewing the weekend’s big college basketball games. I decided not to make predictions - the last reason of which is that I am not overly fond of making predictions. But had I done so, I would’ve gone 3-2.
Here’s how I would’ve predicted the games:
Indiana over Michigan State, 68-62. Pitt over […]
Obiora @ February 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Kelvin Sampson may have gone and done it again. The scandalmonger’s heir to Jim Harrick and Eddie Sutton is back in hot water, this time at Indiana, which took a chance on the former Sooners coach, knowing full well his history of transgressions at Oklahoma. According to ESPN.com, “the allegations stem from a phone-call scandal […]