The first four months of Rick Pitino’s return to the biggest stage of college basketball have proved out one unmistakable fact: St. John’s is officially a recruiting powerhouse, at least for as long as Pitino stalks the sidelines in Queens.
The latest piece of evidence: The commitment of Harvard grad transfer and Brooklyn native Chris Ledlum, who flipped to the Johnnies after originally matriculating at Tennessee this spring.
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If Penn State football is going to replicate its success from a year ago with another 10+ win season in 2023, it needs some guys to step up. Although the Nittany Lions return 14 starters from the Rose Bowl team, there are a few question marks on both sides of the ball as we look ahead to the fall.
Drew Allar, Nicholas Singleton and Kaytron Allen are set to take over on offense, but will they live up to the hype? The defense ranked among the best in the Big Ten last fall, can it repeat that performance?
To answer the latter, it requires a look at the defensive front.
A year ago, Rangers pitcher Alex Speas had put his professional baseball career behind him, transitioning to coaching youth baseball in North and South Carolina. On Wednesday, the sport’s winding path led Speas to the mound at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, where he made his MLB debut as the Rangers faced the Rays.
Within just six pitches, it was clear the moment was worth the wait.
Few NBA players in history have exercised their power as prolifically as future Hall of Fame guard James Harden. First, Harden successfully demanded a trade from the Rockets in Nov. 2020, eventually landing himself on the Nets. In Feb. 2022, he was traded again, from Brooklyn to the 76ers.
Now, Harden is attempting to force his way off Philadelphia in an attempt to join the Clippers—a move that has put the team “in precarious position,” per Jake Fischer of Yahoo! Sports.
Colorado football coach Deion Sanders will not attend Pac-12 media day Friday in Las Vegas.
Sanders is scheduled to undergo surgery Thursday and won’t be able to participate in the annual event the following day. The operation is to remove blood clots in his right leg and to re-adjust the posture of toes on his left foot, according to a video posted by Thee Pregame Show. Sanders’s middle toes on his left foot are dislocated.
In the video, Colorado athletic trainer Lauren Askevold stated that doctors will fix Sanders’s toes, so they don’t “cause any more pain in his shoes.
The head coach of the University of Vermont Catamounts men’s hockey team has been fired after an investigation revealed inappropriate texts with a student.
On Tuesday UVM announced that Todd Woodcroft has been relieved of his duties as the school’s head coach.
WPTZ Burlington reports that the school’s athletic director Jeff Shulman revealed during a press conference that the school first received a complaint about Woodcroft in March,
Once the complaint had been made UVM Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity began an independent investigation.
One of baseball’s supposed greatest joys is the chance to see on any given night something that has never happened before. But I’ve always preferred a cousin of this idea—related, but different, a little twistier. What I love is the chance to see on any given night something that has happened before, just not for a very, very long time.
These historical ties have always been more enchanting to me than sheer novelty has. The game is constantly evolving; we know this, we can watch rule changes and box scores and shifts in roster construction to be reminded of how true this is.
Davonte Pack, a close friend of Grizzlies guard Ja Morant, has been arrested in connection with a July 26, 2022, incident at Morant’s house that has been the subject of civil litigation involving the two-time All-Star.
Pack, 24, was booked into Shelby County Jail on Wednesday on charges of misdemeanor assault.
Joshua Holloway, now 18, filed a lawsuit against Morant when he was 17, describing the NBA player and Pack of having struck him during a pickup game in Eads, an unincorporated Memphis suburb.
Has Georgia taken over Alabama’s mantle as the best program in college football? For the first time in a while, that’s a real question.
NASHVILLE — Billy Napier is 1-0 against the University of Utah as the head football coach at the University of Florida. The Gators hosted the Utes in Gainesville last season and mounted an impressive comeback to begin his first year with a win.
Florida Shocks Utah In ‘The Swamp’ As The Billy Napier Era Starts With A Bang
Now, in year two, Napier and Florida are tasked with repeating their performance from a season prior. And they will have to do so on the road.
First and foremost, playing Utah is no easy task.