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Daily Dose July 31, 2010 – Sam Bradford, Dez Bryant, Haynesworth, Yankees, Rays
Rams, QB Bradford agree to $78M, 6 years (AP) No. 1 overall draft pick Sam Bradford agreed to a six-year, $78 million contract with the St. Louis Rams on Friday night, with $50 million in guaranteed money. The Rams and the former Oklahoma quarterback concluded negotiations in time for the first full-squad workout set for Saturday. The guaranteed [...]
Daily Dose July 29, 2010 – Chris Bosh, Lorenzen Wright, Tiger Woods, Rick Pitino
Colangelo rips Bosh for 'checking out' (AP) Chris Bosh's former general manager says the player was "checked out" late last season and chose not to play some of the Raptors' final games. Talking on radio station FAN 590 in Toronto, Bryan Colangelo said Bosh wasn't the same player toward the end of the year. Colangelo said on Monday's show that [...]
Daily Dose July 18, 2010 – Serena Williams, Dean Smith, Notre Dame
Serena to have surgery, miss 3 events (AP) Serena Williams needs surgery on her right foot after cutting it on a broken glass at a restaurant. The top-ranked women's player was injured last week and will miss three tournaments leading to the U.S. Open, the WTA Tour said Saturday. Williams has withdrawn from tournaments in Istanbul, Cincinnati and [...]
New NCAA President Wants To Look At One-And-Done Players In College Hoops
Any time you get a new person in the throne running a big organization like the NCAA, you spend a lot of time feeling out their position on the pressing issues facing the organization. Brian Cook took a look at new NCAA president Mark Emmert's views on a college football playoff system on Wednesday. On the basketball side, with the 96-team [...]
Stevens Signs New 12-Year Deal With Butler
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Brad Stevens isn’t leaving Butler any time soon. The coach who took the Bulldogs to the national title game and fell one bounce short of winning the championship has signed a 12-year deal that would keep him at the school through at least 2021-22. The school did not say how much the deal was worth. Last season, Stevens [...]
Coach K Not Interested In Nets Job
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—Mike Krzyzewski isn’t interested in leaving Duke for the New Jersey Nets. Krzyzewski says through a spokesman that he hasn’t been contacted by the Nets and “wouldn’t have any interest in the job.” The Bergen Record, citing anonymous sources, reported that incoming Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov would offer [...]
NCAA Explains How 96-Team Tourney Would Work
INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA appears to be on the verge of expanding the men's basketball tournament to 96 teams. Insisting that nothing has been decided, NCAA vice president Greg Shaheen nonetheless outlined a detailed plan Thursday that included the logistics and timing of a 96-team tournament, how much time off the players would have and even [...]
Brackets Busted
It's been that kind of tournament. Of the 4.78 million brackets fans submitted on ESPN.com, only 200 successfully picked the Final Four of Michigan State, Butler, Duke and West Virginia. The autistic kid who wowed everyone by picking all of the games in the first two rounds correctly? Yeah, he's done. Obama? Not even close (though [...]
Autistic Teen Picks First Two NCAA Rounds Perfectly
An autistic teenager from the Chicago area has done something almost impossible. Nearly 48 games into an upset-filled NCAA tournament, 17-year-old Alex Herrmann is perfect. "It's amazing," he says. Truly. The teenager predicted that Northern Iowa would beat the Kansas Jayhawks. He picked Ohio to knock off Georgetown. And Cornell to knock [...]
Ban NCAA Teams With Low Graduation Rates
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men's college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players, an idea that didn't go over well with the NCAA and coaches preparing for March Madness. If put into practice this year, a dozen teams in the NCAA tournament would be [...]
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