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If you don’t like players in college sports getting paid, you're really not gonna like this
The fire hydrant has been busted open and money is spewing in the streets of college sports. Mens’ college basketball saw the success of the Inaugural 2023 NBA In-Season Tournament and has decided to start one of its own....

Presenting the ‘You Gotta Be Kidding Me’ Team from opening day of March Madness
If you’re like me — an NBA fan who pivots to college basketball for a few weeks in March — the best part of the NCAA tournament is the unknown. What I don’t know about draft stock, a coach, a player, a team, or anything, makes the discovery all the more entertaining....

Repeated COVID outbreaks won't stop Michigan from lusting after NCAA Tournament cash
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the University of Michigan can’t play games due to the coronavirus....

To play or not to play: The Coach K conundrum
This is a column about Duke basketball and Coach K. Most of you despise the two, while I, on the other hand, cheer for them harder than any team I’ve ever rooted for....

2020 showed us why unpaid teenagers can’t be the foundation of college sports anymore
Sooner or later, it all comes crashing down....

Coach K is still a weasel
As college basketball continues to be the live-action version of the cartoon dog sitting at his breakfast nook amongst an inferno, it is screaming for someone, anyone, to act like an actual adult. For a group of people that claim to be leaders and shapers of men, no one seems to be acting like eithe...

Even college basketball’s biggest cheerleader on ESPN thinks this is stupid
It’s rare you get any spikiness from ESPN, or evidence of a spine, and especially when it comes to college basketball. For the most part, every analyst for college hoops on the World Wide Leader is there to be a cheerleader and get a good taste of various coaches’ asses. It’s why every coach is addr...

Canucks ice anti-mask anthem singer; Wisconsin falls to Marquette in literal last second
Rich people really can dictate media coverage....

The Champions Classic proved that this college basketball season will be a quiet one
College basketball is going to be weird....

Prove Me Wrong: Bill Walton should shut up about mountains, waterfalls & rainbows sometimes
Let me start out by saying I KNOW THIS WILL NOT BE A POPULAR OPINION....

The Makur Maker experiment at Howard was never going to work and already off to a bad start
When Makur Maker, a five-star recruit and projected NBA Draft pick, announced that he was going to play college basketball this season at Howard University — an HBCU — people said a power shift was on the horizon, especially given the racial and social uprisings that have taken place in 2020....

Notre Dame coach Mike Brey furiously swiping right to find new opponent to put at risk
You have to assume that Mike Brey at least made a few phone calls, sent a few texts, something, anything, before he decided to tweet in desperate search for someone to play basketball against Notre Dame next weekend....

College hoops returns during a pandemic so we can have an 81-point blowout nobody needed
A tweet on Wednesday afternoon that got 10,000 retweets and quote tweets, and nearly 40,000 likes in the first six hours it was up showed a score of No. 1 South Carolina 119, College of Charleston 7....

ESPN needs to keep this crew for future NBA Drafts
On a night in which Woj stripped ESPN’s telecast of the 2020 NBA Draft of any suspense due to tweeting the picks early, the worldwide leader deserves some credit for putting together a crew that, for once, knew what the hell it was talking about....

With COVID-19 outbreaks linked to ice rinks, how will college hockey even start?
When the coronavirus pandemic hit America earlier this year, one of the first sporting events to be canceled was college hockey’s Frozen Four. It’s a sign of how badly things have gone here that it’s getting harder and harder to see the way to the event taking place in 2021, because at the moment, t...

John Thompson Coached Life, Not Basketball
For Black men of a certain age, John Thompson was the pinnacle. And even if they didn’t play for him, he was their coach....

Wake Forest’s New Basketball Coach Is Already The Laughingstock Of The Game
Introductions are really important....

Transfer Madness: NCAA Fans Turn Attention To College 'Free Agency'
March Madness pays the NCAA’s bills....

FSU's Leonard Hamilton Is A Good Man Whose Possible Last Chance For a National Title Has Been Ripped Away
Tonight could have been life-changing for Leonard Hamilton, as his team had a real shot at being the last one shown during “One Shining Moment.”...

If You Watch Only One Sports Documentary During Quarantine, Make It This One
If I told you that the FBI started an undercover investigation to expose the people who secretly pay college basketball recruits, only to find out that their own employees were stealing the agency’s money, would you believe me?...