Category Archives: Basket Ball
Colleges Wait to Hear Their Name Called by Elite Recruit
SPORTS AND HEALTH – Last Friday evening, Josh Selby, the nation’s most explosive high school guard yet to commit to a college, walked out the back door of Lake Clifton High School here with the Tennessee assistant Steve Forbes. The two kept chatting as they approached a light-blue Mercedes-Benz with tinted windows. Selby, keys in [...]
Can’t-Miss Prospect May Make It After All
SPORTS AND HEALTH – When the basketball world first met Derrick Caracter, in July 2001, he was 13 years old, 6 feet 8 inches and carried around a stuffed orangutan named Ollie.
On Thursday, many fans will be reintroduced to Caracter. He will take the court for 12th-seeded Texas-El Paso in the first round of the [...]
It’s the Bricks That Make Butler Basketball Special
SPORTS AND HEALTH – Hinkle Fieldhouse looks like a red-brick airplane hangar, rising above the neighboring houses at one corner of the Butler University campus. And when a basketball game is played there, the cheers spill through its cracks and its leaky roof and its high windows.
There is no video board. There are no luxury [...]
Nun Works Out Players’ Academic Side
By some measures, the success of the Xavier men’s basketball team rests not with a sharpshooting guard or a ball-hawking forward. Rather, it rests largely with a 5-foot-4, white-haired 77-year-old nun not afraid to rap on dormitory doors or to call players before dawn to ask about missed classes or late assignments.
Xavier, one of the [...]