Louisville continued their Cinderella run to defeat Cal 64-67 and punch a ticket to the championship game. A short time later, UConn rolled over Notre Dame, snapping a four-game losing streak to the Irish, in an attempt it win an eighth NCAA title.
Six-foot-four freshman forward Breanna Stewart poured in 29 points in an amazing performance, leading the Huskies to an 83-65 win over Notre Dame in front of 17,545 at the New Orleans Arena.
UConn coach Geno Auriemma thinks one way to increase interest in women's basketball is to lower the rim.
Long a hot topic among women's basketball fans, the supposed logic is that more people would watch women's basketball if there were more dunks, because dunks are the primary reason fans watch men's basketball.
By Jon Levy A week prior to the tipoff of college basketball's NCAA Tournament, the only American
sports playoff which inspires anything near World Cup-level madness, The World's Most Famous Arena
hosts a yearly five day competition that doesn't garner half the prestige of "the big dance." No
one fills out brackets, and Sally the [.
Gus "Rise and fire" Johnson has made his name announcing American sports like college basketball, hockey and NFL, but now the king of the catchphrase has entered a new phase in his career announcing soccer games. Johnson has five games ......
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There's been a littany of problems in so many American sports lately. College football has an
annual crisis of players, coaches and boosters scheming the system, Ohio State University being the
latest. College basketball has its own share of problems as witnessed earlier in the year when the
University of Connecticut got busted for recruiting violations only to bounce back and win the
national championship a month later.
Whenever there's an undertaking as easily debatable as this one, at least a brief explanation of the formula used is required. Let me first clarify that for these rankings I did not consider pro potential. The only two factors utilized were past performance and predicted future performance, with more emphasis placed on the latter.
It's hard for the casual sports fan to get to know college players like it was from years before.
It used to be the Ewings, Olajuwons and Laettners of the court hung around a while and fans got to
know them.
Study after study indicates that time spent using the internet is making humans less patient and
more neurotic.
From the moment people are waking up till the moment they go to sleep, time spent with the internet
changes how people react and behave. Its effects are impossible to ignore.
Did the Olympics indicate that U.S. spectator sports fans are suffering burnout from college
football, college basketball, the NFL, NBA and MLB?
The television ratings for the Olympics were the best ever, but this fact doesn't necessarily
represent any correlation with the 'Big 3' U.S. spectator sports.
It's the first week of March and most of the NCAA Division I conferences are just now finishing up
their regular season. March Madness is taking forever to get here.
This week's college basketball results have been all about where teams land for seeding purposes in
their respective conference tournaments.
Mike Greenberg of ESPN RadioSport Talk's impact thus far on pro Soccer is everything and
nothing at the same time for U.S. sports fans. It means everything because sports talk is the main
vein of contact among sports fans. The impact is nothing because that's about how much relevance
U.S. pro Soccer gets from sports talk.
MLS is good enough, talent-wise, to be more popular with sports fans in the U.S. than the English
Premier League and other world leagues.
Even though these other leagues may have superstar players and better overall play from top tier
teams, sports fans should be able to have a deeper appreciation for MLS due to the history of
outstanding relationships built by American sports teams.
It may have to do with its newest hire, the irrepressible Jim Rome, who has publicly admitted
numerous times to not being a fan of Soccer.
It looks like CBS has determined that the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, college football, college basketball,
tennis, golf and NASCAR had to be part of its website, but not Soccer.
The top U.S. sports websites (most read/most popular) are; YAHOO.com, ESPN.com, FOXsports.com and
SI.com. None of these sites give MLS its own category/webpage on their homepages.
MLS is found only among the 'Soccer' category.
Each of the other big '4' team sports have their own categories.
I had the chance to visit with a high school basketball team yesterday, and in their pre-practice
meeting, they were referring to an article that I had also once written about a couple of years
back. The article had to do with toughness, which ESPN's Jay Bilas has a
pretty good reference point about.
Now, I'm not one of those EPL-centric, footballing-history-started-in-1992 type people. I just
hate the FA Cup. I hate how misused the FA Cup is in terms of broadcasting (both online and
televised).
Last March I wrote a post about how College Basketball's March Madness is presented in
America.
Neil Blackmon continues his EPL Preview marathon. (Too bad he doesn't work for you guys
ESPN)
Will The Deuce Abide...and remain at Fulham?
Part III of our Barclay's Premier League preview focuses on five teams that should all contend
for the Europa League, which, depending on who you ask, is either great (because some ownership
boards are honest enough to admit they aren't going to make the Champions League), or the European
soccer equivalent of college basketball's NIT.
In the relatively short span that I've being a fan of MLS, I have grown to consider the
television coverage of MLS to be like the Snake Exhibit at your local zoo: isolated, thought of in
a wide variety of fashions from cool to ambivalent to disgusting, and lacking the level of
interaction that allows the observer to experience first-hand what is to be offered.
As MLS's television contract with Fox Soccer Channel expires at the end of this season, and MLS
execs have been in preliminary discussions with Versus about becoming a broadcast partner,
Goal.com's Seth Vertelney looks at MLS's TV ratings.
Although attendance is up, big-name players are arriving, and new stadiums are springing up across
the country, viewership has remained flat on ESPN2.
As Kansas players danced around the locker room with pieces of the Edward Jones Dome net pinned
behind their ears, one of the greatest coaches in basketball history was stuck in traffic.
Hall of Famer Larry Brown -- the only man to win an NCAA title and an NBA championship -- hustled
up the steps and out of the arena after the Jayhawks advanced to the Final Four by defeating North
Carolina 80-67 Sunday.
Karen Sypher was on trial for extorting Rick Pitino. On Thursday, Sypher was found guilty and
faces up to 26 years in prison. An exact amount of prison time will be decided during her
sentencing on October 27th.
In addition to being found guilty of extortion (three counts), Sypher also was found guilty of
two counts of lying to the FBI and a single count of retaliating against a witness.
The contentious nature of politics drives even the best of politicians to the brink. It's at this
point, when sports have been brought up as a topic to bring levity to a broad audience and show a
more human politician.
Kemba Walker has been the best player in all of college basketball over the last three weeks. In
that span, UConn has won all nine games they have played. Their latest victim was Arizona. With a
65-63 victory on Saturday night, UConn is headed to the Final Four. That makes us 2-for-2 in our
Elite 8 predictions for March Madness 2011.
Today starts College Basketball's March Madness. Sixty-eight teams due battle over the next few
weeks in a tournament that makes the World Cup seem puny in terms of scale, (but not pageantry or
importance or anything else, mind you). Today, there are 16 games going on. The same amount will be
played tomorrow.
It's looking less and less likely that we'll have an NBA season this year. The latest chapter of
this sad saga has David Stern giving the NBA players a deadline to accept the owners' latest offer.
However, the players have already all but officially turned down the offer.
The deadline, which is the close of business on Wednesday, will surely come and go without a
deal in place.
Escalade is dead. You know him from being the huge bigman on the AND1 Mixtape Tour. He died in
Los Angeles while in town for the 2011 NBA All-Star Game. Escalade's real name is Troy Jackson and
he's the younger brother of Mark Jackson, the former star point guard who now calls games for ABC
next to Jeff Van Gundy.
On a day when four Texas college basketball schools had a chance for an automatic bid for the NCAA tournament, it turns out none were able to win their respective conference title game. Texas went 0 for 4 on Saturday and more than likely 0 for Texas for the tournament.
Thanks in part to Title IX, opportunities for you to participate in sports as part of your
college experience have expanded substantially. Yet when thinking about competing on behalf of your
school, you tend to think varsity sports. I'd like to take this opportunity to expand your horizons
in case your radar is limited.
Anthony Davis is going to be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft. His Kentucky team is
in the Final Four and, to top it off, he just got named as the Player of the Year in men's college
basketball. It's safe to say that times are good for Anthony Davis right now.
A lot of the luster for the Olympic Qualifiers this weekend in KC wore off on Monday night, when
the US drew 3-3 with El Salvador, knocking the Americans out of the tournament before they even got
to Kansas City. Instead this weekend in KC we're going to see Mexico, Canada, El Salvador, and
Honduras take the field in the semifinals on Saturday with the winners of those games meeting on
Monday night.
During last weekend's Campeonato Pernambucano fifth-round match between Sport and Nautico,
Sport's Marcelinho Paraiba collided with Siloe and had a tooth fly out of his head as a result. So
after Sport won the match 4-3, Marcelinho asked club officials to try and find the tooth. When they
couldn't, he offered a R$1,000 ($572.
Every coach wants to have players on their team that are assertive and willing to accept leadership
responsibilities. No matter how demanding a coach or his staff can be in practice, ultimately,
success will come down to their players being able to hold their teammates to high standards and
demands during the game.
Javaris Crittenton is a free man. For the time being, at least. Javaris Critten was freed on a
$230,000 bond on Tuesday. The former NBA player has been charged in a murder of 22-year-old
woman.
According to police, Crittenton was shooting at a man who had previously robbed him and
accidentally hit Julian Jones.
By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Apr 5, 2011) US Soccer Players -- Though it's always tricky
trying to draw parallels across sports, last night's National Championship game in college
basketball should serve as a reminder of what happens to any sport when the quality tanks. Prior to
one of the lowest scoring, and frankly painful, games in national championship history, the
conversation was about parity in college basketball.
It is hard to imagine things more soul-sucking than a week that is dedicated to international
fixtures. The domestic leagues are reaching a boiling point and all the excitement is killed by
these FIFA dates for friendlies and Euro qualifiers.
For example, the English media are so devoid of interesting topics they are harping on the fact
Gareth Bale may miss the upcoming Wales v.
