Kevin Ollie went from an NBA journeyman to a championship coach in four short years – and with only two as head coach of the UConn Huskies men’s basketball team. He and women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma gave UConn the Division 1 basketball championship sweep this year. Ollie joins an elite fraternity – he is […]
Fox News Host Heather Childers found herself in quite a predicament when she referred to the UConn Men’s basketball team as the ‘NAACP’ champs instead of ‘NCAA’. “The UConn Huskies are the 2014 NAACP national champs,” Childers said. 10 out of the 15 players from the championship team are African Americans. While we shouldn’t be […]
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — UMass guard Derrick Gordon has become the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball. Gordon made the announcement in interviews with ESPN and Outsports on Wednesday. Gordon said he gained confidence by seeing an NBA team sign Jason Collins, who became the league’s first openly gay player when he […]
DETROIT (AP) — When Michigan State was fighting to stay afloat despite a succession of injuries to key players, Lacey Holsworth was there. When the team rebounded to win the Big Ten tournament, the 8-year-old from St. Johns, Mich., was there. And as the cold-shooting Spartans bowed out of the NCAA tournament at the hands […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — With Breanna Stewart back for two more seasons, Geno Auriemma and UConn are in position to win a few more titles. None may be sweeter than the record ninth championship the Huskies won Tuesday night in unprecedented fashion. Connecticut reached the pinnacle in style, routing Notre Dame in the first NCAA […]
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Coaches and players left them. Others told them to go away. The guys who stuck around at UConn ended up with the last laugh and a pretty good prize to go with it: The national title. Shabazz Napier turned in another all-court masterpiece Monday night to lift the Huskies to a […]
Darius Rucker has been tapped to perform the national anthem before Monday’s NCAA Championship game, and he’s getting a huge vocal assist. The award-winning country singer-songwriter will be accompanied by the Jazz Singers vocal ensemble from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performance and Visual Arts in Dallas. Chris Daughtry will perform before Saturday’s […]
For iPhone; Roland Martin discusses the National Labor Relations Board Director’s ruling that Northwestern can unionize its football team with ESPN’s Jason Whitlock and Kevin Blackistone. “This is not about salaries. What these players are talking about is workers compensation and protection of scholarships should they get hurt and healthcare down the line,” says Blackistone. Jason Whitlock […]
A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that Northwestern football players could unionize. Does that mean some players will be able to organize and get better health care and academic support? Or does it spell the end of college sports as we know it? The AP takes a look at all […]
Michigan State’s Adreian Payne and an 8-year-old girl lovingly known as “Princess Lacey” met two years ago during a team trip to a local hospital- on that day, a friendship formed that reminds us the most important things in life are the things we can’t buy. Lacey Holsworth, who has a form of cancer called […]
The Billion Dollar Dream has been over for a while. Most bracket sheets are loaded with red X’s. Still, there is plenty of March Madness ahead of us in the NCAA tournament’s round of 16. You want favorites? Three No. 1s — Florida, Arizona, Virginia — are alive and well after two rounds. You want […]
Huggy Lowdown is back from the cruise, BUT he has boat lag! Not to mention he makes the connection between Michael Vick and birds and Ray J — you might’ve “hit Kim Kardashian first”, but Huggy has some news for you inside!
