Greivis Vasquez: The Terps' beat the Seminoles in Tallahassee Thursday. "The fans here were crazy, the craziest I’ve ever had since N.C. State. They were being racist, they were talking about deporting me and sending me back home, calling me Mexican when I’m Venezuelan. It was pretty bad, so they deserved to lose. That’s why they lost. I showed up like I showed up, like I’m the best player on the court and they have to take it like that.” [D1Scourse] (53)
Highly-recommended reading on Harvard basketball star Jeremy Lin. “He sent his CV (4.2 GPA, perfect score on his SAT II Math 2C in the ninth grade) and a DVD of highlights … to all eight Ivies, Stanford, Cal and his dream school, UCLA. Only four schools responded. Out of the Pac-10, Lin recalls, UCLA ‘wasn’t interested,’ Stanford was ‘fake interested,’ and during a visit to Cal a staffer ‘called me Ron.’” [SI]
The league, which makes the idea of the XFL seem as if it were hatched by Harvard scholars, wants 12 cities, but that will never happen. (The league, hopefully, will never happen.) But for fun, we had a “draft.” Four teams, seven players apiece. Read the rest of this entry »
The All-American Basketball Alliance plans to start a 12-team professional league in June, made up entirely of white players. “Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league.” They released the press statement last Sunday, the day before Martin Luther King Day. Read the rest of this entry »
Saw this video floating around on twitter Monday morning (this guy recorded it first). Watched it a couple times, wondered if it was worth a post, and passed. Read the rest of this entry »
Ten years ago, Stephen A. Smith was an NBA writer/general columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Then he took his act to ESPN, where he was given a TV show. One might say the show was favorable to athletes. He was given a radio show as a platform, too. Then ESPN began to fade out the screaming, Booyah! era (definitely dead now), and Smith’s star began to diminish. A career shift was necessary. Read the rest of this entry »
In case you missed Outside the Lines Sunday, this piece is tremendous. One of the most shocking comments in this piece is that the NBA began to permit the zone defense earlier this decade, kinda, sorta … because American white players can’t defend. The NBA denied the allegations.
College Football's Lack of Black Coaches: Tony Dungy railed against college football's lack of black coaches last night on NBC. The numbers are staggering: of the 120 bowl-eligible schools, only seven coaches are black; of the 65 teams in "major" conferences, there's only one black coach (Randy Shannon at Miami). Last offseason, there were 22 job openings - all were filled by white candidates. "This is disgraceful," Dungy said. Dungy said that he recommended Mike Tomlin for a college job a few years ago - nobody bit. Then Tomlin got hired by the Steelers and won a Super Bowl. Does college football need a "Rooney Rule?" Some of these stats should change this week - Virginia is naming Mike London its coach today (great read on London here) and Florida's Charlie Strong is a likely candidate to take the Louisville job. Strong is smart to bolt before his defense - and Tim Tebow - leave early/graduate. If only Urban would do the same. (40)
College Football’s Lack of Black Coaches: Tony Dungy railed against college football’s lack of black coaches last night on NBC. The numbers are staggering: of the 120 bowl-eligible schools, only seven coaches are black; of the 65 teams in “major” conferences, there’s only one black coach (Randy Shannon at Miami). Last offseason, there were 22 job openings – all were filled by white candidates. “This is disgraceful,” Dungy said. Dungy said that he recommended Mike Tomlin for a college job a few years ago – nobody bit. Then Tomlin got hired by the Steelers and won a Super Bowl. Does college football need a “Rooney Rule?” Some of these stats should change this week – Virginia is naming Mike London its coach today (great read on London here) and Florida’s Charlie Strong is a likely candidate to take the Louisville job. Strong is smart to bolt before his defense – and Tim Tebow – leave early/graduate. If only Urban would do the same.
Highly-recommended reading on Harvard basketball star Jeremy Lin. “He sent his CV (4.2 GPA, perfect score on his SAT II Math 2C in the ninth grade) and a DVD of highlights … to all eight Ivies, Stanford, Cal and his dream school, UCLA. Only four schools responded. Out of the Pac-10, Lin recalls, UCLA ‘wasn’t interested,’ Stanford was ‘fake interested,’ and during a visit to Cal a staffer ‘called me Ron.’” [SI]
