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Yao-Less, The Year of (Lin)
6 feet 3 inch, 200 pound, 23 years of age, Asian-American, and Harvard educated – Jeremy Lin
Putting all of the above attributes together, it would have gone beyond society’s reason to believe they are the distinguishing characteristics of the New York Knick’s newest star Jeremy Lin. Before point guard Jeremy Lin came along, chances are you could not name an NBA player of asian-descent outside of former Houston Rocket’s center Yao Ming. Let alone could you have named any undrafted player of that his particular background. If you could, leave a comment on this post, you probably know more than the average NBA fan.
“Lin-sanity”, as the media is calling it, began a little over a week ago. Without last year’s superstar acquisistions Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony, Knick’s coach Mike D’Antoni, a coach who has been on the hot seat, began rummaging through his roster to find scoring from whatever player he could. Luckily, for 4th stringer Jeremy Lin, that meant an opportunity and audition to be the temporary starting point guard for the New York Knicks. Lin responded with a 25 point, 5 rebound, and 7 assist performance in a win against the New Jersey Nets. The Knick’s next game Lin got his first career start; he responded with a win, and an even greater statistical outburst. Read More >>
NBC ‘versus’ ESPN
As of Jan. 2, 2012 Versus, a channel known for broadcasting NHL games and a number of outdoor and combat sports, became the NBC Sports Network. The transition and rebrand weren’t completely unexpected. When Comcast, the original owner of Versus, bought the majority stake of NBC February 2011 it started merging NBC’s own sports content into the channel, and started relaunching Versus as a sort of extension to NBC normal sport’s broadcasting. As the months progressed the executive decision made sense to rebrand Versus as NBC Sports Network.
The rebrand is expected to make Versus into a more creditable channel that would appeal to a more mainstream sport’s audience; essentially, a channel that could compete with ESPN’s sports monopoly. An advantage of the new NBC Sports Network is NBC Universal’s recent procurements of lengthy contract extensions of viewership rights with the NHL and Olympic Games, helping Versus with its initial step towards its vision.
Brightening for the future expansion of the channel was the announcement of a new TV deal next year with the growing MLS over its original broadcaster partner, Fox Sports Channel. The deal was even announced for less money than Fox was offering, because executives were convinced on the future direction of the sports network. With soccer gaining ground each year in the US, the MLS has been thriving more than ever, and should be able to continue growing exponentially if NBC Sports Network can continue growing along with it. Read More >>
Worst Jersey Ever..? Do You Think You Could Do Better?
To be honest, when I think of the pioneering of sports jersey’s, I don’t think of the 500 different helmet, jersey and pants bottom combinations Nike has branded against Oregon Ducks. I do though get mixed feelings when I see the throwback uniforms the Memphis Grizzlies sported against the Clippers last Thursday (pictured on the right). 
The Grizzlies’ retro jersey’s, and the game against the Clippers, was to be a sentiment to the old American Basketball Assosiation, 1967-1976, a “lively” league famous for its prominent red, white and blue basketball, entertaining (.. although unconventional) half-time promotions and the adoption of a three-point shot; advertised as the “home run” of basketball. If you’ve ever seen the movie, Semi-Pro, then know Will Ferrell and the Flint Michigan Tropics weren’t far from what the ABA was at the time. The league was successful enough though that Four of ABA teams eventually were adopted into the NBA: the Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets and New Jersey Nets. Thursday was to be allusion to a rematch of the old Los Angeles Stars and Memphis Pros/Tams/Sounds; and yes, Memphis did change their team name 3 times in 5 years. Read More >>
Thoughts on the Passing of Joe Paterno
Not many people will accomplish in a life time what Joe Paterno did for both a University and its football program. In essence, some people will say no college football coach again, in our modern BCS landscape, could accomplish what the affectionately nicknamed “JoePa” has been able to do for Penn State University.
From 1966 to the end of 2011, Paterno spent 46 seasons as the head coach of Penn
State’s football program going out with an overall record of 409-136-3, five undefeated seasons and a 24-12-1 college bowl game record; two of those bowl game wins going for National Championships in 1982 and 1986. Joe Paterno is the winningest coach in major college football history. It didn’t come down to just wins, losses and the money that comes from those accomplishments though. Read More >>
National Signing Day 2012: Alabama does the best – get your favorite’s new team jersey at Onthefield.com
It’s not uncommon for the College national champion to do well a month later when College national signing day comes around. With 27 quality recruits on board, Alabama is solidly atop the country in the No. 1 College recruiting spot. With less than a week until most recruits will sign their letters of intent, here’s a look at Sporting News’ top 10 College classes:
1. Alabama (27 commitments): The Crimson Tide have one of those well-rounded classes. They are most likely done, but the Tide coaches are still pursuing at least a couple top targets. Six of Alabama’s 27 recruits are Sporting News Top 125 members, and it’s a strong class top to bottom. Alabama should be especially proud of its defensive backs haul—all five are good enough to be early contributors.
Top SN 125 players: DB Geno Smith, DB Landon Collins
2. Michigan (23): Brady Hoke has made quite an impression with this group, and there’s an outside chance he might be able to pick up another top kid or two. Hoke went after tough players and got them. One of his crowning achievements has been attracting top-flight linemen from all over the country, and keeping Ohio State coach Urban Meyer from flipping them. The strength of this class is the middle of the group, not just the elite players. “(Hoke is) going back to the power running attack and needs guys who aren’t afraid to get in a three-point and run right at you … hit it up the gut,” SN 125 OL Kyle Kalis told Sporting News.
Top SN 125 players: OL Kyle Kalis, DB Terry Richardson
3. Texas (24): As usual, about 75 percent of this class was in place before last summer was over. In fact, the Longhorns are probably more focused on their 2013 class right now than worrying about what they might gain or lose before signing day. One thing is for certain: The Longhorns have a nice set of offensive skill players in QB Connor Brewer, RB Johnathan Gray and WR Cayleb Jones. Three played together at the Under-Armour game. “This class is great with all the guys we got,” Brewer said. “Cayleb is going to be a great guy to throw to and I can’t wait to play with him.”
Top SN 125 players: WR Cayleb Jones, RB Johnathan Gray
WHoosiers?
Unless you’re from Indiana or a college basketball fanatic,
the Indiana Hoosiers might be little more than an inspirational college
basketball movie you watched on any particular Saturday or Sunday Afternoon. A
school filed beyond your usual March Madness pick repertoire of NCAA men’s
basketball schools… Kentucky, Kansas, Duke or any of the NBA-lite, media-frenzy
schools of the Big East. What’s been going on this year at Indiana could be
nothing short of the sort of basketball exorcism that occurred at Kentucky a
few years ago.
During the 1971 to 2000 Bobby Knight coaching era the
Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team appeared in 24 NCAA Tournaments, won 3
NCAA Championships, 11 Conference Championship titles, and in 1976, became the
last undefeated NCAA men’s basketball champion finishing with a perfect 32-0
record. This was a program that in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s had come as
closely synonymous with “winning” as Charlie Sheen, and as recent as even 10
years ago eyed a possible NCAA tournament title in 2002, has finished 11th,
9th and 11th respectively in the Big Ten Conference the
last three years. With the 2002 loss to
Maryland in the NCAA title game aside, Indiana has not seen a Sweet Sixteen
appearance since 1994. Indiana is indicating it wants that changed though in
2012.
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NCAA vs. University of North Dakota
The use of Native American names and mascots in sports is a contentious subject. Many sports fans and non-sports fans object to the cartoonish portrayal of “Chief Wahoo” of the Cleveland Indians, for example. But what happens when Native Americans support the use of their tribe’s name and imagery?
This is a case that rages on in North Dakota where UND has been known as the Sioux since 1930 and as the Fighting Sioux since the 1960s. The university has the full support of the Spirit Lake Sioux reservation; Spirit Lake and Standing Rock (a neighboring reservation) actually blessed the use of the nickname in a religious ceremony. Now the NCAA has instructed the university to change the mascot and nickname or else UND will not be able to host postseason competitions nor will the university be able to display their mascot or nickname during a postseason game elsewhere. The school estimates that the cost of changing the mascot and nickname amounts to $750,000. I’m sure that number does not include the hundreds of thousands of dollars fans have spent on custom NCAA jerseys and other Sioux fan gear.
Syracuse’s scandal will having its impact
On Nov. 17, accusations from Bobby Davis that Syracuse assistant College basketball coach Bernie Fine molested him for years became public and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim quickly came to his longtime assistant’s defense.
Davis, 39, alleges that Fine molested him beginning in 1984. Davis was one of the team’s ball boys for six years and he told ESPN that the sexual abuse happened at Fine’s house, at the Syracuse basketball facilities as well as on team road trips, including the 1987 Final Four in New Orleans.
Mike Lang, 45, who is Davis’ stepbrother, also told ESPN that Fine molested him, starting when he was in fifth or sixth grade.
NEWS: Fine fired amid allegations
MORE: Fine’s wife: ‘I know everything that went on’
The day those accusations came out, Boeheim, who became coach at Syracuse in 1976 and has had Fine on his staff since then, spoke out strong against the accusers.
“This is alleged to have occurred … what?” Boeheim said last week. “Twenty years ago? Am I in the right neighborhood? It might be 26 years ago? So, we are supposed to what? Stop the presses 26 years later? For false allegations? For what I absolutely believe is a false allegation? I know he’s lying about me seeing him in his hotel room. That’s a lie. If he’s going to tell one lie, I’m sure there’s a few more of them.”
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