Category Archives: NCAA
Maryland Slowly Takes Control of Houston
SPORTS AND HEALTH – For a little more than a half, Maryland, a co-champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference, struggled to put away a team that had a losing record in Conference USA.
But the fourth-seeded Terrapins used a 12-2 run early in the second half to gain control of No. 13 Houston and glided to [...]
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 [...]
SEC Hopes to Show It Has More Than Kentucky
Sports and Health – It was a dreadful five hours for the Southeastern Conference here Thursday afternoon as one of the league’s marquee players, South Carolina’s Devan Downey, had a disappointing finish to his career and one of its marquee teams, No. 15 Tennessee, had a near-disastrous start to its postseason.
The SEC is looking forward [...]
NCAA Tournament Expansion? No!
I accept no abstraction who my Congressman is or whether or not I voted for him/her. I don’t apperceive if they accept been complex in any array of aspersion (if they have, I achievement it’s awesome) or alike if they annihilate babyish backcountry creatures with their bald easily for sport. For all I care, my [...]