CollegeSports
LUBBOCK, Texas — Easy to forget that it wasn’t that long ago Texas Tech was 20 seconds away from winning a national title in men’s basketball. Tech’s painful, overtime loss in the title game to Virginia was in the spring of 2019, which only feels like 2,019 years ago, as does nearly everything else that happened before COVID. Since that game, Texas Tech somehow maintained its reputation as the Stranger Things of college basketball, specifically with their coaches. Every time Tech was sure it had “The Guy,” something happened. Bob Knight quit. They fired his son. They fired the next guy. The ne...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three days days before the new year, Missouri’s football program capped its best season in a decade with a Cotton Bowl win against Ohio State, the Tigers’ first bowl win against a top-10 team since 1960. Nine months earlier, the men’s basketball program won its first NCAA Tournament game in 13 years. And now, at the onset of 2024? The school’s gymnastics, wrestling and softball teams are ranked in the top 15. One more thing: Two weeks ago, the athletics department announced a record $62 million donation. Been a pretty good run in Columbia. Oh, except for the stunner that cam...
The Kansas City Star
NEW YORK — Rick Pitino stands by his controversial criticisms of his St. John’s players, saying amid backlash that he “wasn’t ripping anybody.” The 71-year-old coach expressed frustration with what he described as a lack of athleticism and toughness following Sunday’s back-breaking loss to Seton Hall, during which St. John’s blew a 19-point lead. “I truly wasn’t ripping anybody,” Pitino told Newsday after receiving heat for his comments. “I was pointing out exactly — in a monotone voice — why we lost. … I am not always calm and certainly not when I rip someone.” Sunday’s loss marked the reelin...
New York Daily News
Jayden Daniels should be the cover man on EA Sports College Football video game when it’s released this summer; no player embodies this era of NCAA football better than Daniels. He took advantage of the transfer portal to play immediately, from a Pac-12 school to the SEC. He cashed in with NIL money at LSU. He was done with college football before the college football season was over. That is today’s top college player; they exploit a system that now favors the quarterback, tight end or linebacker almost as much as his coach. That’s no knock. As such Daniels is the one who should be able to of...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
NORMAN, Okla. — Before Kansas' game against Oklahoma, former Kansas star and current Toronto Raptor Gradey Dick took pictures with scores of Kansas fans as he took his seat two rows behind KU’s bench. KU freshman Johnny Furphy — a big fan of last year’s breakout freshman — had an outing reminiscent of the 2022-23 Jayhawk sharpshooter while playing in front of him. No. 6 Kansas defeated No. 25 Oklahoma, 67-57, on Saturday at Lloyd Noble Center. Furphy hit multiple difficult 3-pointers — similar to Dick throughout last season — as he helped lead the Jayhawks to a comeback victory. The Sooners le...
The Kansas City Star
DETROIT — Chauncey Billups is one step closer to basketball immortality. The Pistons legend and current Portland Trail Blazers coach has been named a finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2024, which was announced on Friday evening. Billups joins a list of 14 finalists that includes eight-time NBA All-Star Vince Carter, five-time NBA champion Michael Cooper, six-time All-Star Walter Davis, legendary coach Bo Ryan and four-time WNBA champion Seimone Augustus. Billups, a five-time NBA All-Star and NBA Finals MVP, is lauded in Detroit for leading the Pistons to an NB...
The Detroit News
Here’s how you know that the proposal to name the football field at Penn State’s Beaver Stadium after Joe Paterno is a terrible idea: No one knew about it. No one knew the idea existed, because no one had tried to make the case out in the open first. The people reportedly lobbying for it — a cluster of university trustees — wanted to keep their campaign quiet, and they were apparently willing to flout Pennsylvania law to make their case behind closed doors, and that’s reason enough to tell them to stick it. Spotlight PA did Thursday what it’s supposed to do, revealing that these trustees had m...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Caitlin Clark is closing in on the all-time NCAA women’s scoring record, but in many ways, the do-it-all Iowa superstar already stands alone. The 22-year-old senior is poised to claim the scoring crown Thursday, needing only a modest offensive output at home against unranked Michigan to pass Kelsey Plum’s historic mark. Once she sets the record, the 6-foot Clark can create some separation with the rest of the field, with six more regular-season games, the Big Ten tournament and the NCAA Tournament ahead of her after Thursday. Here is a deeper dive, by the numbers, into Clark’s incredible caree...
New York Daily News
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Tom Izzo predicted Saturday’s game against No. 10 Illinois would be a “helter-skelter game.” And that’s exactly what it was. Both teams went on runs. Both seemed in control at different times. The game saw 16 lead changes, including 10 in the second half alone. There were 10 times when the game was tied. It was a battle to the end and Michigan State survived, outlasting the Illini, 88-80. It was a much-needed win for the Spartans, who were coming off a painful loss at Minnesota on Tuesday. Michigan State improved to 15-9 on the season and 6-7 in Big Ten play and bolstered...
The Detroit News
RENO, Nev. — They had a bat problem inside Lawlor Events Center. There was an actual bat delay earlier in the season when the winged critters began dive bombing players and coaches during a game. Nevada staff worked tirelessly with local wildlife authorities to remedy it, using a system of nets to capture them late at night and then releasing them into a more natural habitat than an 11,536-seat basketball arena. They caught 27 of them. So the bats are largely gone. But the ghosts remain, and the ones that haunted San Diego State here last year returned on Friday night — leading inside 20 secon...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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