FSU will not lose on opening weekend.Thursday, August 28
FSU will not lose on opening weekend.
TENNESSEE 47, LSU 46
It’s no coincidence that LSU announced that previous Duke A.D. Joe Alleva had been hired. Let the losing begin.
(Tennessee's Alexis Hornbuckle (14) and Candace Parker leave the floor. AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
Candice Wiggins refused to let Stanford lose to Connecticut. Not again.
The Cardinal star continued her electrifying run through the NCAA tournament, scoring 25 points and grabbing 13 rebounds while getting some timely help from Kayla Pedersen and JJ Hones as Stanford shocked Connecticut 82-73 in Sunday night’s national semifinals.
Back in the Final Four for the first time in 11 years, the Cardinal (35-3) avenged an early season loss to the Huskies (36-2) and advanced to Tuesday night’s title game, where they’ll put a 23-game winning streak on the line against Tennessee.
(Stanford's Candice Wiggins celebrates her team's 82-73 win over Connecticut. AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
Comply Or Die, the easy winner of the T.A.H. 2008 Worst Horse Name of the Year Award, produced a gutsy jumping display to win the $1.59 million Grand National Steeplecahse at Aintree near Liverpool on Saturday.
So who names their horse Comply or Die? Jeez.
of 30 fences. The nine-year-old then readily held off his pursuers to give Murphy his first National win in 12 attempts.
IT WAS A NICE DAY IN CALIFORIA...for some golf and then a swim.
Lorena Ochoa of Mexico leads the traditional rush to the water beside the 18th green after the final round of the Nabisco, the LPGA's first major.
COLORFUL, AND FAST…Carl Edwards, driver of the #99 Aflac Ford, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 National Guard/AMP Energy Chevrolet, race side by side during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 6, 2008 in Fort Worth, Texas.
WORST TO FIRST...Somehow, the Washington Capitals went from last and out of the NHL playoff marathon to first (and in the playoffs) with a win on the final night of the regular season.
WHY DIDN’T WE THINK OF THIS…? A golf course at a vineyard.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -What Roy Williams needed was a comeback for the ages. What he got was a disappointing dose of payback - a chance to see what it feels like when Kansas breaks his heart.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- As hard as it is to imagine, Memphis keeps getting better just when it matters the most.
That’s hard to overcome. Giving up an 18-0 run to a #1 seeded team in the National Semi-final in the first half, and another 13-0 in the second half is simply impossible to overcome.
Ultimately, the Heels defense let them down. An Achilles of sorts all season, Carolina simply couldn’t generate the intensity they needed to slow down the high flying Jayhawks. The key to the transition game is making the other team miss and getting the rebound. Carolina owned the largest rebound differential in the country and that’s a big part of the formula that led to 37 wins.
believe Ol’ Roy and boys taught him to play position defense and to stay out of foul trouble. The system works until the offense goes cold against a red hot Kansas team that many pick to win it all…
Lost in the shuffle of a great 37 win season that included regular season and ACC Tournament championships, was how different this team is from the squad that won in 2005. That team had FOUR first round NBA draft picks. This team has two – Hansbrough and Lawson. Ellington will be drafted if he leaves, but we don’t think he’s first round material…yet.
One of those four NBAers was a kid named Marvin Williams. Williams had “length” (the new overused buzz word for commentators and coaches alike) which simply means he was extremely athletic and played “bigger” than he actually was. Sound familiar?
Can you say Brendan Wright? Another front court player with length, the 6’9” Wright played like he was much bigger. He blocked 65 shots last year, and his defensive presence in the middle was sorely missed in 2008.
If everybody stays in Chapel Hill, which is unlikely at best, the Heels will need to cultivate a stronger inside presence to make it all the way to the 2009 championship game. It will have to come from Hansbrough, Thompson or Stepheson or new kid Tyler Zeller (6’10”, 215) who will need to bulk up a bit.
Finally, some folks will wonder why Williams didn’t use more timeouts during the 40 to 12 onslaught. Give Williams credit for a variety of things including consistency. That’s not what he does…Ol’ Roy lets ‘em play, and he saves his timeouts for end-half/game situations.
He doesn’t believe in stopping the game. He has said before that the players know exactly what is going on and exactly what they need to do, and stopping the game makes them question that and lose confidence.
Like most things Carolina blue, most nights that works.
But not last night.
(Photos by AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images, Streeter Lecka/Getty Images, and AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
ESPN - SAN ANTONIO - North Carolina's season had just ended when the questions began about the futures of underclassmen Tyler Hansbrough, Wayne Ellington and Ty Lawson.
Duke A.D. Joe Alleva most have some friends in high places in the low country.
END OF THE ROAD...North Carolina head coach Roy Williams reaches for Surry Wood (24) in the locker room after they lost 84-66 to Kansas in the semifinals game at the college basketball Final Four Saturday, April 5, 2008, in San Antonio.
NO PLACE LIKE DOME...? Not really. The last time UNC played at the Alamodome they lost to underdog Utah.
A PICTURE…really is worth 1,000 words. Alfred Aboya #12 of the UCLA Bruins sits on the bench late in the second half against the Memphis Tigers during the National Semifinal game of the NCAA Men's Final Four at the Alamodome on April 5, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas.
Tyler Hansbrough had a very busy Friday morning on the biggest weekend of his young basketball career.
Duke's DeMarcus Nelson scored 21 points to help the National team beat the American team 106-100 in the National Association of Basketball Coaches college All-Star game Friday.
STYLIN…King Rice, Pete Chilcutt and Rick Fox.
Backup point guard Andre Allen missed only two games the last three seasons for the Memphis Tigers. Now he might miss the two most important.
Amazingly, some 36 hours before the most important college basketball game nobody from the Tar Heels, Bruins or Jayhawks did anything stupid enough to get them tossed off the squad.
Well, Ohio State can’t win the BCS Championship or the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball National Championship, but they can beat UMass to win the NIT 92-85.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
SO LONG...Kentucky basketball manager Bill Keightley, who was with the Wildcats for 48 seasons, died Monday in Cincinnati of internal bleeding caused by a previously undiagnosed tumor on his spine. He was 81.
Louisville coach, and former Kentucky coach Rick Pitino pauses while speaking at a memorial service.
THROW BACK...In honor of the old days when the newly arrived Brooklyn Dodgers played in the L.A. Coliseum, the Red Sox and Dodgers played an exhibition game there last week.
AIR POLLUTION...? Remember how the incredibly trustworthy Chinese government promised to fix the air pollution problem in Beijing (solutions included exploding bombs in outer space to make it rain more!) before the start of the Summer Olympics in August?
YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN BAHRAIN...When you get to the press conference and some dude hands you a falcon.
HEY, IT'S BAD SOCCER UNI FRIDAY...You know the one thing we demand from our crack T.A.H. research staff is that they pour over every soccer photo everyday. That's no small task since there are about 9,000 soccer matches occurring at any given time all over the world AND in outer space.
The folks at SI have pointed out that since the NCAA started seeding tournaments, five national title games have ended with a No. 1 facing a No. 1. This year will be No. 6 given that all four No. 1s advanced to the final weekend for the first time in tournament history. The ACC has been involved in five of the six No. 1 vs. No. 1 showdowns.
traps awaiting him, the confused Webber made the mistake he'll never forget: he called a timeout with zero remaining for the Wolverines. Technical foul. UNC wins.
ally, in just his second year as Tar Heels coach, Roy Williams (then touted as the best coach not to have won a National Championship) turned a losing team two years prior into national champions. The Illini rallied back from a 10-point deficit with nine minutes remaining, but they couldn't withstand the Heels persistence, or Sean May.
Andy Glockner over at ESPN has pointed out some intersting info:
D.J. Augustin of Texas, Michael Beasley of Kansas State, Stephen Curry of Davidson, Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina and UCLA's Kevin Love are finalists for the John R. Wooden Award, given to college basketball's top player.
scorer at 25.9 points and helped Davidson to the Elite Eight as a No. 10 seed.
More than 1,000 national media and college basketball experts had until Monday to cast votes based on players' regular and postseason performances, character and academic performance.
Tim Redding took a one-hitter into the eighth inning and Ryan Zimmerman hit a solo homer to help the Washington Nationals stay unbeaten with a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night.
A tennis tantrum by Russian Mikhail Youzhny left him bloodied but made him a YouTube celebrity.
“YEZ, I WILL SIGN ZEE GIANT TENNIS BALL…For I am a Francifier, and when I am finish, I will write zee limerick about doctor. OK, too, you make Florida Gator-man go away, he scares me little bit.”
DOWN TO ONE...UNC is the only ACC school remaining in a post-season tournament.
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According to Wikipedia and a number of blogs, Tyler Hansbrough has won the 2008 Naismith Award.
No, not head coach Mike Krzyxcfgzw2ski who many think is the King of Duke, but Taylor King the once heralded freshman whose playing time decreased as the importance of the game increased. That could have had something to do with King’s penchant for putting up a shot EVERY time he touched the ball.
According to the THE SPORTS POINT: Norcross (GA) High School basketball standout Al-Farouq Aminu and his two teammates are out of jail on bond after being arrested on charges of shooting a woman with a BB gun. The Parade and McDonald's All-American turned himself in to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's office on Friday.
My first two years at Duke were a disappointment to say the least. Early exits from the Big Dance certainly cut me deep, but the fact that neither one surprised me somehow cut me deeper…
WHEN DOES THE FIGHT BREAKOUT…? Jamie Langenbrunner #15 of the New Jersey Devils warms up before playing against the New York Islanders on April 1, 2008 at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.
BUMMED...and this time Don Imus had nothing to do with it.
ADIOS AMIGOS...UCLA's Kevin Love, center, looks to shoot in between Stanford's twin brothers Brook Lopez, left, and Robin Lopez in this file photo in the championship game in the Pac-10 Conference at the Staples Center in L.A.
After 28 (well 27, if you don’t count 1994-95) years at the helm of one of America’s elite collegiate basketball programs and over 800 wins, Duke University head coach Mike Krzyzewski will announce at a press conference today that he is resigning his post.
designed to keep former Blue Devils from succeeding at the next level. “It’s all about diminishing my accomplishments as a leader and corporate salesperson,” Krzyzewski said.
CBS and ESPN will announce at a news conference today that they are abandoning what was sure to be an overdone story line: The Ol’ Roy vs. Kansas saga.
The networks were on the fence about whether to deveote 312 hours or just 285 hours of coverage to the “Ol’ Roy deserts Kansas” story, but they decided to call the whole thing off after a brief interview with Ol’ Roy after the Heels whipped Louisville Saturday night.
The Clemson Tigers men’s basketball team which was recently eliminated by Villanova from the 2008 NCAA Basketball Tournament, rallied together yesterday to sink 7,635 straight free throws for charity.
Coach Oliver Purnell could not be reached for comment.
(Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
Still reeling from a second round NCAA Tournament exit, the transfer of budding young superstar Taylor King followed by the shocking and sudden departure of their leader, head coach Mike Krzyzewski, the Duke basketball program received a much-needed piece of good news today when the nation’s premier high school floor-slapper announced his decision to play in Durham next winter.
dden, some toolbag starts slapping the floor in front of you. You start laughing at him. It gets you off your game. You almost feel bad for the pathetic little guy. And that gives them an advantage.”
Key words being “hot” and “trail.”
reading "Got-R-Did." The ink on his forehead cost $125 and took about 45 minutes to complete, Bebee said, adding that he was the family trendsetter when it came to such head art.
Really…no kidding. No, it’s not an April Fools’ joke, they’re undefeated. That’s more than the Red Sox can say…
BASEBALL OPENING = FLYOVERS...City of Escondido fire captain Eric Souza stands before singing the national anthem beneath helicopters that fly over during Opening Day ceremonies for the game betweenthe Houston Astros and the San Diego Padres on March 31, 2008 at Petco Park in San Diego, California.
TAR HEEL RACING TEAM...? Looking for still more ways to defeat arch rival Duke, UNC has started a Grand Prix team. Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas drivers of the #01 Telmex Chip Ganassi with Felix Sabates Racing Lexus Riley celebrate with their team after winning the Rolex Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami on March 29, 2008 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.