So Texas is taking on North Carolina in the $1.2 billion Cowboys Stadium which will call to configure the basketball court so the most can see it. It’s reminiscent of the Houston-UCLA game between Elvin Hayes and Lew Alcindor at the Astrodome where you needed binoculars to see. Somehow Jerry Jones will have a layout [...]

Watching the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) title game last night in the rain in Chattanooga, I wondered how 16 teams could have participated to boil down to a two-team championship on Friday December 18th? Didn’t the BCS, the university presidents and the bowl people say it couldn’t be done? Something about too much confusion determining [...]

There’s this guy in Detroit who covers sports for The Detroit Free Presswith a cynical slant. Drew Sharp is tired of the losing in Motown and fed up with teams that don’t have game. And by the way, he wants to make a run at Michael Wilbon, Stephen A. Smith or Jason Whitlock as a [...]

Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni has spent his time since he arrived in New York as a loser. He made a rep as a Euro-influenced coach, elevated in the U.S. by innovative former Phoenix owner, Jerry Colangelo. His Suns team was exciting to watch with their “seven seconds or less” offense, led by Steve Nash, that [...]

Rutgers has landed in Tampa and will take on the University of Central Florida in a fellow Big East colleague’s backyard. Jim Leavitt of the University of South Florida is said to be so unhappy that he allegedly slapped a player. Not so. Rutgers and UCF will have the attention of a fertile Florida recruiting [...]