Barking Carnival

So the NCAA says it has “new” information regarding over $30,000 in gifts that basketball star O.J. Mayo allegedly received before and during his minute and a half stay on the USC campus. They plan to get to the bottom of it — right after they clear up that little matter of Reggie Bush also […]

God makes Guantanamo detainees watch Yentl.
Seriously, has any player in any athletic endeavor gotten worse advice?
We’re talking about a guard who makes Freddie Williams look like Curly Neal. A kid that picks up his dribble 40 feet from the bucket only to get swallowed up by trapping defenses like a glow-stick at a HenryJames […]

Michael Avery is a 15 year old from Thousand Oaks, California. He’s also a pretty good basketball player. So good that Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie has offered him a scholarship.

‘Eighth graders, Dude.’
Now Gillispie can’t talk about Avery because of NCAA rules (and possibly the Mann Act), but Avery’s father, Michael Lohan Howard, told the LA […]

He won’t be hiring an agent, though. Again, this makes financial sense for the young man, but he has to be concerned with this year’s guard crop. The following lead guards are all likely to be taken in front of him: Rose, Mayo, Bayless, Eric Gordon, Collison, and Westbrook. If DJ performs […]

At least according to Fox Sports. Well, if there’s one thing we can gather from this stunning turn of events it’s that AJ doesn’t get TNT. My lord, he’s half a foot shorter than JJ Redick and not nearly the scorer. Every other sub-6′ guard in the NBA can handle and create. […]

Man, we can’t even excel at sucking. That honor, according to Forbes, goes to Atlanta, though it looks increasingly like Seattle will be passing them in the next couple of months. With the Rockets about to succumb to the McGrady phenomenon once again, and the Astros winding up for a truly hideous summer, we might […]

It looks that way. As a college basketball fan I’m all for it. I’d rather have two semi-image conscious entities make shady backroom deals.

So Buzz Williams is the next in line to try his hand at rekindling Al McGuire’s magic. Well, what does that and Texas High School basketball have to do with the price of beer in Milwaukee. Evidently a bunch. Williams was an assistant to Billy Clyde at TAMU before his stints as […]

And so we have officially entered the “Dead Zone” of the sports year.  Spring football ended a couple of weeks back for the only program we care about.  College basketball ended for our guys on the same day, after one of the most successful seasons a Longhorn roundball team has experienced.  The baseball team is […]

You asked and he answered, well at least as candidly as he could for fear of reprisal. Here’s the email he replied to me with. I’m in the process of clarifying a couple of answers below, and I’ll submit follow up questions for the next part so if there is anything else you […]