What a game of identity – Michigan State had four starters from Michigan, one from Ohio, while North Carolina didn’t have a player from in-state or near it in the starting lineup. Tom Izzo is well-identified as Michigan State’s coach; Roy Williams, as much as we try, still feels like Kansas’s coach on the wrong sideline.
Identity is [...]

There is one basketball team in the country so thoroughly head and shoulders above its competition this season that one must already start to wonder whether if it’s even remotely conceivable that they will NOT win the title.
No, I’m not talking about the Los Angeles Lakers, who once again established themselves as the team to [...]

AT&T Cotton Bowl (Dallas, TX – January 2)

#8 Texas Tech Red Raiders (11-1) vs. #20 Mississippi Rebels (8-4)
Like their Big 12 brethren Oklahoma and Texas, Mike Leach and his Texas Tech squad ended the season with only a single loss. Unfortunately for the Red Raiders, that loss came at the hands of Oklahoma and [...]

Ah, December… The leaves have changed (at least if you live in area where the leaves do change, unlike myself in Los Angeles), the holiday season is upon us, and five major sports are in full swing.  So, for today, let’s take a capsule look at what’s going on.
NFL: Last week, I looked at the parity [...]

Yesterday, I looked at the North Carolina Tar Heels and their chances of attaining perfection during the 2008-2009 college basketball season.  Today let’s take a look at some of the other interesting tidbits we can glean from the AP preseason basketball poll as well as compare it to the USA Today Coaches poll.
Big East Dominance
The [...]

The NCAA college basketball regular season, otherwise known this year as the North Carolina Tar Heels’ Pursuit of Perfection, officially begins tonight.  Just over a week ago, North Carolina was voted the first ever unanimous #1 in the AP preseason basketball poll.  Pressure, anyone?
Of course, the Tar Heels would never claim to be entertaining the [...]