Congrats to the Parade Magazine All-American team:Name, Position, Ht. High School College* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Promise Amukamara, G, 5'8" Apollo (Ariz.) Arizona State Kaneisha Atwater, G, 5'7...
USA Basketball:Hoopfeed interviewed Renee Montgomery about her USA Basketball experience this week.Brittney Griner made a big impression at USA training camp......and the experience seems to have made an even bigger impression on her. This is…
Catching up on stories I wanted to post last night and couldn't because blogger was down.........Recruits:Peyton Little picks Texas A&M.More on Bria Smith choosing Louisville.The OSU Beavers are loading up on Junior College players.Another great…
DFW Gold isn't featuring Moriah Jefferson this year, who just committed to UConn a few days ago. The roster is full of players from the class of 2013.Game Time Basketball, from Oregon, features top 2013…
Wow, is Lauren Jackson really 30 today? I remember her at 20 when she was a stick kid with hair plastered to her head during games.USA Basketball:The lone college student on the USA Basketball team…
Brackets are out. But the 17U Super Elite Pool is the one most will be watching:Pool Play Schedule & Results Sat 5-14-11 10:10 AMCal Poly Court 1 [E] CAL SWISH BLACK[E] RAMPAGE 10:10 AMCal Poly…
Bria Smith, the seventh-ranked 2011 prospect who renewed her search for a school when Debbie Ryan left Virginia last month, has chosen Louisville. She opted for the Cardinals over Tennessee.Bonus:New NCAA president Mark Emmert is…
Those pros don't get a break.....it's right from overseas to USA Basketball camp. Sounds like they're each glad to be back.Here's the roster of the World University Games Team.On the college coaching tip:University of Washington…
Richard Barron - assistant at North Carolina State - is the new University of Maine coach. He replaces the fired Cindy Blodgett.The Shreveport Times provides an LSU report card, and they don't seem outwardly optimistic…
ESPN has its latest, freshest top 100 of the class of 2012.The list:RK NAME GRADE COLLEGE POS HT WT SCHOOL 1 Breanna Stewart 98 Connecticut F 6'3" Cicero-North Syracuse High (NY) 2 Moriah Jefferson 98…
Taj McWilliams-Franklin has kept her family intact throughout her pro career.Candace Parker wants and gets it all.Happy Mother's Day to all the great moms out there.
Pre-Mother's Day:WNBA players win at career and motherhood.Tamika Catchings will speak at Wednesday's commencement ceremony for UT's College of Education, Health and Human Sciences.
UCLA students overwhelmingly rejected the administration's plan to move the student section behind one basket when Pauley Pavilion re-opens next year. Only eight percent supported the plan, while 69 percent opposed it, and 23 percent…
USA Basketball:The U19 court coaches were named today, and they're Kenya Larkin-Landers of Trinity Valley Community College, and Mark Youngs of Davenport University in Michigan. Congratulations to them.The athletes who will be at the trials…
The NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee recommended that the three-point line be moved back one foot, to 20 feet, nine inches.They provide data, but it doesn't support the action. Here's the real impetus, I think:…
The former McDonald's All-American, who left Cal last week, will attend Kentucky.
ESPN's official release on yesterday's deal, and their plan to show Pac-12 sports "across multiple entities."Reactions to what is probably the biggest agreement for a college conference.
Major college news going down:The Pac-12 is rich, biiatch......they'll get $3 billion over 12 years by selling the rights to their basketball and football games to FOX and ESPN. How booyah is that?Charmin Smith -…
Reactions:WNBA players react in different ways to the death of Osama Bin Laden.WNBA:San Antonio traded some draft picks to Tulsa for Scholanda Robinson.The Fever waived Jori Davis and the Mystics waived Bernice Mosby.Sabbaticals:Arizona State Universit...
Joanne Boyle was "too laid-back," said the father of the departed sophomore. He also complained about the lack of crowds at games on the West Coast. Stallworth is deciding between Florida, LSU and Kentucky.
WNBA:Katie Smith rejoins Brian Agler.The guru is wide awake in Seattle for Smith-Agler reunion II.The Tulsa Shock released this list of players earlier today who were invited to training camp. But check out the top…
Cal Poly Pomona may face NCAA sanctions for "impermissible contact with prospective student-athletes, impermissible tryouts and open gyms, impermissible use of student managers and impermissible benefits, in addition to institutional findings involving...
In a three-way trade earlier today, the Washington Mystics took Jasmine Thomas from Seattle; the Storm got Katie Smith and Jacinta Monroe from the Mystics; Indiana got Erin Phillips from Seattle.The Fever's take.The Storm's view.Interesting…
Tamika Catchings' story of overcoming her hearing impairment to become one of the best pro ballers in the WNBA has been told before, but it never gets old. In addition to her perseverance, I also…
The 2010-11 Associated Press Sports Editors Racial and Gender Report Card includes these grim facts:REPORT HIGHLIGHTSThe report shows the vast majority of people holding key positions on the major newspapers and media Web sites in…
