Category Archives: Other sports

If you’ve been following the ACC/Big East brouhaha (ably covered by Eric McErlain), the one thing that you can hang your hat on is that if and when the ACC raids the Big East for one or more teams, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Who knew Yogi Berra was a hockey fan? Thanks to Matt for sending this to me. By the way, in case you’re curious, that guy who promised to marry his longtime girlfriend if the Mighty Ducks won the Stanley Cup … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Houston Rockets will announce tomorrow the official hiring of former Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy. The Knicks will apparently receive a second round draft pick as compensation. I like this move. I thought Van Gundy was underrated in New … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The news that former New York Knicks star Dave DeBusschere died of a heart attack at the age of 62 makes me really sad. I grew up a Knicks fan, and got to see him play a couple of times … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It looks like the University of Virginia pep band, also known as “The Award-Winning Virginia Fighting Cavalier Indoor/Outdoor Precision(?) Marching PEP Band & Chowder Society Revue, Unlimited!!!!”, may have finally met its match in the form of rich alumni who’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The WNBA has postponed its draft as the league and the players’ union attempt to hammer out a labor agreement, with the league threatening to cancel the 2003 season if no such agreement is reached by Friday. Say what you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I see that ol’ Hootie Johnson might have a trump card to play in his ongoing battle with Martha Burk: Though Augusta National has yet to meet the demands of Burk, who is the chair of the National Council of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Houston Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovich has been diagnosed with superficial bladder cancer, according to the team. The good news is that from reading the story, it sounds eminently treatable and shouldn’t even keep him off the Rockets’ bench for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a university president resign over an athletic controversy (though $deity knows a whole bunch of them, including every one that’s hired Jim Harrick since he was fired at UCLA, ought to), but it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Eric McErlain points me to this piece by Eugene Volokh about how to reform college athletics. It’s a pretty radical idea, suggesting that for most college athletes, the education they’re there to get is in athletics, so why not acknowledge … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Now that’s just sweet: College hoops coaches across the country wore bow ties yesterday to honor the man who’s coached more games than anyone else: Jim Phelan remembers the last time Mount St. Mary’s went looking for a new basketball … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know, for all of the crabbing by some conservatives about Martha Burk and her quest to get the Augusta National Golf Club to admit women, I think I’d rather be on her side of the issue than a Ku … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Steve Smith has a followup post to his obituary of crooked Michigan booster Ed Martin, which I had commented on here. Where we disagree, I believe, is on the notion of whether there should be a statute of limitations on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Steve Smith of OffWing Opinion recently wrote of the passing of Michigan booster Ed Martin, whose payola to the Wolverine men’s basketball teams of the late 80s have recently come to light: Although I don’t condone lying to a court … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Is two-time WNBA MVP Cynthia Cooper about to come out of retirement? Houston Comets owner Les Alexander thinks so: “These are heady times for the Houston Rockets and Comets,” Alexander said to those in attendance at the annual Tux & … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A national figure makes a racially insensitive remark. The mainstream media doesn’t pick up the story for several days. Meanwhile, a lone website operator who operates anonymously beats the drum until the rest of the world is forced to take … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What is it with coaches named Nolan Richardson? Nolan Richardson III resigned as men’s basketball coach at Tennessee State University on Wednesday night, two weeks after he was indefinitely suspended for bringing a gun into the school’s arena. Richardson, 38, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Want to win a bar bet some day? Ask someone to identify the following people: Earl Lloyd, Woody Strode and Kenny Washington, and Willie O’Ree. Give up? They are, respectively, the first black players in the NBA, NFL, and NHL. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The University of Virginia has offered an official apology to West Virginia for jokes that the UVa pep band made at the Continental Tire Bowl. This incident has sparked some discussion on the Rice MOB mailing list. We’ve been in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Continental Tire Bowl, one of those bowl games you’ve never heard of (in this case, because it’s new this year), has produced some controversy. Seems the governor of West Virginia has his panties in a bunch because the UVa … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just finished reading this NYT magazine story about the realities of bigtime college football today. It’s pretty gnarly. Read the whole thing, but be prepared to feel the need for a shower afterwards. This bit here is the reason why … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Eric McErlain expands on a suggestion by Instapundit for what to do with the World Trade Center site. Instapundit had jokingly suggested a baseball stadium; McErlain seriously suggests a football stadium. I like this idea. The Jets have never really … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This, from Jonathan Feigen’s NBA notebook, is exactly what’s wrong with salary caps, in a nutshell: Though he has not played this season and likely will never play again, the Raptors are shopping Hakeem Olajuwon. There does not seem to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Congratulations to Mount Union for their impressive win over my Trinity Tigers in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. The Purple Raiders won their third straight national championship and sixth in seven years with a dominating 48-7 victory. Senior running back … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You’ve been hearing all along how streaming video on the Internet is going to be the Next Big Thing. Well, Rice University sure hopes so – they just signed a deal to have their basketball and baseball games broadcast in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Less than 24 hours to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the championship game of Division III football. My alma mater, the Trinity Tigers, have the Herculean task of defeating the Mount Union Purple Raiders, by far the best college football … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Trinity University has suspended All-America quarterback Roy Hampton for the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl that will determine the Division III football champion. “He is no longer with the team in any way,” Trinity Athletics Director Bob King said. “We have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Justin Slotman has been your one-stop-shopping center for all things WNBA lately. Unfortunately, as he notes here, it’s been mostly bad. Two franchises have folded and will either find new homes or have their players dispersed throughout the league. The … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It just gets weirder: An assistant coach was also busted along with star quarterback Roy Hampton. Offensive backs coach Mike Burton “was charged with interfering with the duties of a public servant” stemming from Hampton’s arrest. He was released on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Argh. My Trinity Tigers clinch a spot in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl and the next thing I know their star quarterback is arrested for public intoxication while out celebrating on the Riverwalk. Help, I’m trapped in an After School … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My alma mater Trinity University will play in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl for the Division III football championship after beating St. John’s of Minnesota in the semifinals game. Trinity has been in the Div III playoffs for the last … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Bobby Joe Hill, star guard of the 1966 Texas Western (now UTEP) team that beat Kentucky in the NCAA men’s basketball championships, has died at the age of 59. Hill’s team made history by starting five black players in te … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Roone Arledge, one of the great innovators in sports television, has died at the age of 71 from cancer. Arledge gave us instant replay, slow motion, personal profiles of athletes (don’t thank him too much for that when you watch … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Having watched my recommended daily allowance of football over the T-Day weekend, I’ve seen approximately 1,539 promos for the ESPN movie The Junction Boys, about how Legendary Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant took a buncha Aggie boys out to Junction, TX … Continue reading → Continue reading →