I saw a male student wearing a Jeremy Lin shirt this morning on my way to class, and couldn’t help but chuckling to myself. That poor kid, the one I saw on campus, bought into all of the media hype surrounding a 23-year-old basketball player who burst onto the scene in the biggest media market in the world and gave the greatest arena on this planet life it’d be lacking since the days of Patrick [...]

The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the NBA Draft without the ability to withdraw their names and return to school has come and gone. Now, if a player puts his name in the pool, he’s there to stay and there’s no chance of him returning to college for another season. And with that, the list of non-seniors to enter the draft pool is 26 deep. Players like Austin Rivers and Moe Harkless probably could [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers have had some of the greatest centers in NBA history put on their patented yellow and purple uniform. Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Shaquille O’Neal combined for 98,402 points in their careers and all won championships with the Lakers. But O’Neal was traded from LA to Miami before the 2004-05 season, leaving a gaping hole in the middle of the floor for the Lakers. In the first season in the post-Shaq [...]

At this time two weeks ago, I thought there was a good chance that I could get three or four of the Final Four teams correct. I felt confident that Kentucky would run through the South and reach New Orleans, and they did. I thought that North Carolina would win the Midwest. They came within a broken-Kendall-Marshall- hand of doing so. I had the feeling that Florida State, fresh off their victory in the Atlantic [...]

Tuesday afternoon, I was watching “SportsCenter” with one of my roommates, and my least favorite college basketball analyst, Doug Gottlieb, was blabbering on about something regarding the NCAA Tournament. Just as he was about to make one more soon-to-be-wrong prediction, host John Buccigross interrupted Gottlieb with the breaking news that Syracuse center Fab Melo had been ruled ineligible for the tournament. Gottlieb was literally speechless. He couldn’t close his jaw. I wish every time he [...]

As promised, I’m back with my awards picks before Championship Week ends and the NCAA Tournament begins. I’d also like it to be known that I am not in favor of freshmen winning major awards unless they’re far and wide the best player in a given sport. Or unless they have an award that is just for their class, which college basketball does. That’s why I don’t think that Kentucky rookie Anthony Davis should take [...]

It’s officially March, which means it’s the best month of the year and time for the best two words in collegiate sports: March Madness. There are very few things that I enjoy more than the opening two days of the NCAA Tournament, with the games going for upwards of 12 hours non-stop and that catchy CBS Sports jingle playing during every timeout. But we’re still a few weeks away from the Big Dance, which means [...]

The NBA is a league that’s full of mistakes, turnovers and goofs. On a nightly basis, someone air balls a free throw or misses a dunk or slips and falls on a breakaway. Everyone laughs, ESPN anchors make a joke about it on SportsCenter, and there’s a funny YouTube clip hours after the slip-up. But this week, maybe my favorite clip in the history of sports surfaced. Monday night, the Timberwolves were playing the Nuggets [...]

Less than five years ago, New Orleans was the hottest place to play basketball. Chris Paul was energizing a city that was so desperate for a winner. Tyson Chandler was having a career rebirth, slamming home countless alley-oops from CP3. David West was averaging more than 20 points per game and was starting to get noticed as an All-Star power forward. New Orleans Arena was full every night, with rabid fans wearing the same color [...]

Everyone has a favorite player on their favorite sports team. Most of the time it’s the best player; sometimes it’s a bench guy that makes 3s; and sometimes it’s a guy that doesn’t play all that much, but has a cool name or something. Well, my favorite player is Paul Pierce and he’s the best player the Boston Celtics have had since I’ve been a basketball fan. Tuesday night, Pierce passed Larry Bird for the [...]