The New York Times (registration required) has a good article up about JamesOn Curry and his move to Oklahoma State. One nugget that I found amusing was that the two other schools that courted Curry after his arrest were Memphis and Cincinnati. Calipari and Huggins? Who would have guessed? Actually, as soon as I heard…

I was listening to Jim Rome today at lunch. Actually, it wasn’t really Jim Rome, just his show; Rome’s on vacation and Skip Bayless was hosting. The entire time I was in my car, Bayless was going on and on about how Kevin Garnett should have punched Anthony Peeler after Peeler jacked him in the…

An article in today’s News & Observer contains a piece of evidence I didn’t have when I wrote my article about Marion Jones. Here is the blurb that got my attention: BALCO documents being studied by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency were released Tuesday by lawyers for Jones. They include a 2001 training calendar bearing the…

Flo Jo was dirty. Jackie Joyner-Kersey was clean. Ben Johnson, Tim Montgomery, Kelli White and all shot putters – dirty. Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson – clean. Marion Jones is clean. I think. I hope. Actually, I really do think she is. She doesn’t need to cheat. When she just missed qualifying for the US…

I haven’t had any one topic in my head recently that’s worthy of its own entry, so I’m going the pot luck supper route. Little bit of everything here. ————— I loved reading about JR Smith and how he used his performances in the high school All Star games as the ultimate sign that he…

Well, now that this site nearly three months old, I finally decided to tell people what the hell it is. Is it a blog? Is it just food for Dave’s ego? Read this for the answers. The main message I really want to convey is that I want this site to be collaborative. A community.…

This past weekend marked the end, or nearly the end, of one of college sports’ truly remarkable dynasties. Syracuse spanked Albany in the first round of the NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament, marking Mike Powell’s last home game for the Orangemen (Orange?). If you don’t follow lax (and you should!), Mike Powell is the third in…

That Myles Brand, he cracks me up. Check out this quote on the reasoning behind the ACC’s expansion: Most of the realignments had to do more with academic affiliations than they did with [athletics]. No question about it. And I know that for a fact. . . . The press thought that this was a…

In my head, I was getting ready to write an article on the Spurs-Lakers series. I was all set to write about the triumph of team over individuals, how the Spurs represented much of what is good in sports and the Lakers the bad. Guess not. Instead, I was reminded of one of sports’ toughest…

Did you see the report that the NCAA released the other day on gambling by college athletes? Basically, they did a big, anonymous survey of athletes at all levels of the NCAA. They found some fairly interesting numbers, like that 35% of male athletes have gambled, and 10% of women. If you consider that NCAA…