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A New Chapter in Classic Magic-Bird Tale

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame inducted eight new members Sunday night, and nearly half of the two-hour ceremony was devoted to two of them. Not that it wasn't deserved: from the moment the list of enshrinees for ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Basketball Hall of Fame,  Larry Bird,  National Collegiate Athletic Association,  National Basketball Association,  Clark Kellogg

All Is Well in Homesick Delle Donne's Delaware Debut

LORETTO, Pa. -- Delaware women's basketball coach Tina Martin let the phrase "triple-double'' creep into her comments following her team's season opener Tuesday night, and once it was out, she couldn't reel it back in. But anybody who had watched the ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: ESPN,  Colonial Athletic Association,  Geno Auriemma,  National Collegiate Athletic Association

UK Hopes Calipari's Debut Not So Blue

Kentucky is used to the madness surrounding the official debut of a new basketball coach, even a new big-name, highly touted, expectation-driving coach. It's just not used to the madness taking place twice in three years. The fact that the implosion ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  John Calipari,  Billy Gillispie,  Patrick Patterson,  John Wall

Brian Stokes: A Life of Battlefield and Football Fields

Football forever altered the course of Brian Stokes' life, but not until after he had served two tours in Iraq as a Marine. His military experience also forever altered the course of his life, but not until long after football had already kicked Stokes ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jerry Moore,  Dan Marino,  Pat Tillman,  NFL

Boeheim's 800th Deserves a 'Wow'

In his 34 years as Syracuse's head coach -- even during the years when his face was one of those synonymous with Big East basketball, not even when he won a long-awaited national championship -- never was Jim Boeheim the type to dwell for long on his ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Jim Boeheim,  Tiger Woods,  John Wooden,  University of California, Los Angeles

At UNC, Heavy Player Losses Won't Lead to Many Losses

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The preseason media poll that predicted North Carolina would share the Atlantic Coast Conference championship with Duke was still hours from being released. The national polls that picked the Tar Heels sixth (by the media) and ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Virginia Tech,  Atlantic Coast Conference,  National Basketball Association,  Tyler Hansbrough

Ivy league's Pioneering Coaching Pair Spotlight Progress, Problems

NEW YORK -- Neither Norries Wilson nor Tom Williams had circled the date when, respectively, the Columbia and Yale football schedules had come out. But Dr. Keith Harrison had. So when two African-American coaches met in an Ivy League game for the first ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ivy League,  Tom Williams,  Randy Shannon,  Oklahoma State Cowboys,  NFL

Full-Court Press Awaits Pitino at MSG

Rick Pitino's appearance at New York's Madison Square Garden Wednesday will surely be less pleasant than his previous one, when his Louisville team won the Big East tournament championship last March. In the arena, at the conference's preseason ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Rick Pitino,  Big East Conference,  ESPN

Gary Williams Feels Vindicated as Maryland Tips Off

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- When he addressed the packed house at Comcast Center at Maryland's Midnight Madness festivities Friday night, Gary Williams said he didn't prepare his comments and spoke off the cuff. It wasn't hard to figure out where his ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Gary Williams,  National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Comcast,  Atlantic Coast Conference

All at Once, Vlad, Halos Exorcise Demons

BOSTON -- Even in the afterglow of the finest postseason moment of his career, Vladimir Guerrero wasn't thinking only about himself. If that wasn't obvious by his words, one could tell as soon as he stepped to the interview podium in Fenway Park ...

From DAVID STEELE, AOL Sports,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,  Boston Red Sox,  Vladimir Guerrero,  Mike Scioscia,  Erick Aybar

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