A few days ago, I reported a tidbit of news about Japanese baseball star Eri Yoshida, who will be joining the Yuma Scorpions for the Arizona Winter League season. Turns out she's not going to be the only...

Last week, we looked at some Secret Santas: programs that are currently exceeding expectations by dominating their pre-New Year schedules. The flipside of that is Lumps of Coal -- programs from major conferences who can't seem to beat anybody, as well as a few mids who raised our expectations only...

At the beginning of each season, various media members from markets large and small try to guess how the upcoming hoops season will shake out. It's called a preseason poll, and I'm not immune, I do it, too. We all use our impressions of last year's finishes mixed with completely...

I wanted to share something written by Seth Kolloen, who covers college hoops in the western third of the country for my site, Storming the Floor. He's been watching Bobby Knight announce college basketball games this year, and he says his opinion on Knight as announcer is a radical...

Some friends marvel that I can enjoy college hoops so much and not give one small damn about the NBA. I've done some soul-searching on this, and come to the realization that 1)...

I'll be honest here. When Mid-Majority founder Kyle Whelliston told me he was going to write a book about Tony Ingle, I had to do a quick google search to find...

This morning will be dedicated to making some big-picture sense of the whirling chaos of the Hoops Tip-off. I've tried to include everything that was on some part of ESPN during the 24 hours, though some were more visible than others.

Kansas 57 - Memphis 55

As StF founder Marco...

Earlier this week, we found out that the Arkansas Razorbacks would dress only nine players for their first game of the 2009-2010 season. Player suspensions are the culprit. So, you'd think it would be difficult to compete, even against Alcorn State. Turns out, they only needed two players. Sophomore guard...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, sports are not a metaphor for life.

They are life.

I don't mean that in the overblown, overtly macho Vince Lombardi way, where killing yourself at practice and sacrificing your body to score points may be the most important thing an athlete has to offer...

We live in the age of the pampered athlete. Marcus Jordan cost his school millions by insisting on wearing his dad's shoes. On Veteran's Day, let's salute the programs that still value discipline, unselfishness, and leadership in their hoops recruits.