by Paul Casey Gotham When various media outlets released their pre-season rankings for this year's NCAA Men's basketball, I could understand why the UCLA Bruins earned a spot in the top five. After all Ben Howland has been leading the denizens of Pauley Pavilion to the Final Four the last three years. Only eight other schools have made the Elite Eight multiple times in … [Read more...] about Tell Me Again Why UCLA Is In The Top 20
Archives for February 2009
WVU – Nova pics
Cooking with Chas: My All-Lifetime Team, Part 2
This is the second in a two-part series in which I'm naming my all-lifetime team, that is the greatest players who've played a minimum of ten seasons between 1974 and the present. … [Read more...] about Cooking with Chas: My All-Lifetime Team, Part 2
Down The Stretch
by Doug Potter A fairly frustrating season thus far in the Big East as far as all analysts are concerned is less than a month from coming to a close. A season of ups and downs were expected, but not to this magnitude. I mean come on, who could predict that in mid-February that Notre Dame and Georgetown would be a combined 7-14 in the conference? Even after their hot … [Read more...] about Down The Stretch
Tuesdays with Smitty: Odds and Ends
By Aaron M Smith We are officially done with football until April. Pitcher and Catchers are starting to report to Spring Training - and I really didn't have a topic for this weekend. So I decided to see if I could conjure up some discussion on the board and throw out observations on some recent topics in sports. Here we go: 1. I know we have avoided the "S" question … [Read more...] about Tuesdays with Smitty: Odds and Ends