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06/19/2008 09:43 AM
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Men's Basketball: 10 Cities Vie To Host NCAA Men's Final Four
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Indianapolis and New Orleans are among 10 cities that submitted bids Wednesday to host the 2012-16 NCAA Men's Final Fours. San Antonio, which hosted this year's final won by Kansas; Detroit, the 2009 host; Houston (2011) and Indianapolis (2010), which has held more Final Fours than any other city - five - are all in the running again. Phoenix is the only city looking to hold their first Final Four. Atlanta, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Arlington-Dallas-Fort Worth, are the other prospective hosts.
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06/19/2008 09:42 AM
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Men's Wrestling: 3-Time NCAA Wrestling Champion Jimmy Jackson Dies
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-Jimmy Jackson, a former Olympic wrestler and three-time NCAA heavyweight champion at Oklahoma State, has died. He was 51. Jackson had been suffering from diabetes and congestive heart failure before his death Tuesday in East Lansing, Mich., according to a statement released Wednesday by Oklahoma State. Cowboys coach John Smith said "we lost our great heavyweight, Jimmy Jackson." Jackson won consecutive NCAA titles from 1976 to 1978 and competed in the 1976 Montreal Games, reaching the third round.
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06/19/2008 09:36 AM
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Baseball: Stanford Sends No. 1 Miami Packing
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-Sean Ratliff homered and Cord Phelps tripled in Stanford's four-run fifth inning, and the Cardinal ousted top-seeded Miami from the College World Series with an 8-3 victory Wednesday night. The Cardinal (41-23-2) advanced to the Bracket 1 finals against Georgia, needing to beat the Bulldogs twice to return to the best-of-three championship round for the second time since 2003. Starter Danny Sandbrink and reliever Erik Davis held the potent offense of Miami (53-11) in check. The Hurricanes failed to join the 1999 squad as the only No. 1 national seeds to win the College World Series.
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06/18/2008 03:52 PM
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Women's Basketball: School, Attorneys Reach Deal In Fresno State Coach Lawsuit
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-Lawyers for a former Fresno State women's basketball coach who sued the university claiming sexual discrimination say they've reached a $9 million settlement with the university. In December, a jury awarded Stacy Johnson-Klein $19.1 million for unlawful termination. She says she was fired for threatening to expose the school's unequal treatment of women athletes and coaches. Fresno State attorneys appealed, and Johnson-Klein filed a cross appeal. A Fresno County judge later reduced her total award to $6.6 million, plus $2.5 million in attorneys' fees.
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06/18/2008 01:55 PM
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Men's Basketball: Air Force Agrees To 5-Year Contract With Reynolds
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-The Air Force Academy agreed to a five-year contract with coach Jeff Reynolds that would keep him at the school through the 2012-13 season. Air Force athletic director Hans Mueh said Wednesday that details of the contract are still being worked out. Reynolds was promoted from assistant coach to the top job in April 2007 after his predecessor, Jeff Bzdelik, accepted a job at Colorado. The Falcons were 16-14 in Reynolds' first season.
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06/17/2008 04:03 PM
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News: Hewitt Livens Up Knight Commission Meeting
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Georgia Tech basketball coach Paul Hewitt turned a tedious discussion of numbers into something lively.
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06/17/2008 02:53 PM
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Men's Soccer: Hyndman Leaves SMU For MLS
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-SMU's Schellas Hyndman (SHELL-us HIGHND-mun) is leaving a collegiate power to try to invigorate a struggling pro team. FC Dallas introduced Hyndman as its new coach Tuesday, less than a month after an embarrassing 5-1 loss in front of the biggest home crowd in franchise history. Steve Morrow was fired two days after that setback. The 58-year-old Hyndman made 30 trips to the NCAA tournament in 31 years as a college coach, including 23 of 24 seasons at SMU. The Mustangs were 368-92-35 under Hyndman and made four trips to the College Cup, the soccer equivalent of the Final Four. His overall record was 466-123-49, and he had more wins than any coach in SMU history.
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06/17/2008 09:09 AM
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Men's Basketball: Lawson, Ellington and Green Stay At UNC
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North Carolina underclassmen Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green will return to Chapel Hill next season after removing their names from the NBA draft Monday. The school's announcement came less than an hour before the deadline for underclassmen who had not hired agents to withdraw from the draft. It means the Tar Heels figure to enter next year as prohibitive favorites to reach the Final Four. North Carolina will return its top six players while also adding one of the nation's top recruiting classes.
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06/11/2008 12:53 PM
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Football: Hang On To The Ballon
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Have the expectations been lowered at Michigan or what? I think both of those teams are going to be in bowl games this season. It's pretty easy to point out that you have to be fairly mediocre nowadays to make a bowl game and bowl games don't carry quite the weight that it once did. But that's beside the point.
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06/06/2008 11:39 AM
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Football: 2008 Wishliston
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Can we please see someone other than Ohio State play for the national championship? Despite what some believe, I don't have a Buckeyes-bias. I just want to see some new blood playing for the national title. And hopefully that new blood puts up a real fight this time.
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06/05/2008 10:24 AM
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Football: 2008 Schedule Planner - Week 3on
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We get our first big weekend of the season when Week 3 rolls around. Headlining everything is, of course, arguably the biggest regular season matchup this season. It's Ohio State-USC in the L.A. Coliseum in a showdown that will have wide ranging implications. But Buckeyes-Trojans isn't the only big game on the board. It may be the marquee matchup, but other games certainly deserve some attention.
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06/04/2008 04:09 PM
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Football: In Principle, Early Signing Period Makes Senseon
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Maybe the majority of SEC coaches wanted to have an early signing period, but apparently some did not. Urban Meyer was among those who did not think having an early signing period was an intelligent move.
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05/29/2008 11:23 AM
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Football: 2008 Schedule Planner - Week 2on
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As we hit Week 2, we run into arguably the worst weekend of the year. Most of the big names are playing nobodies and you'll see some ugly, ugly scores. You could even see some ugly scores in the games we've highlighted as the week's best. But here's hoping we get a few close ones to hold us over until Week 3.
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05/22/2008 10:37 AM
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Football: 2008 Schedule Planner - Week 1on
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College football returns for the 2008 season in its usual spot - the last Thursday in August. Twelve games dot the schedule that evening, with the most enticing - arguably - coming in the form of a North Carolina State-South Carolina matchup in Columbia. Fortunately, the weekend features more appealing games than that.
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