Weekend rewind

Mini-Editorial
College basketball announcers and analysts have to stop calling players "property of" when referring to players whose NBA rights are held by a team. This is a rather demeaning term. A player is not a property of a team, his basketball rights are! I am surprised activist groups and the players union have not objected to this loudly. Come on!


NewS

Is Fran Frachilla trying to get a job as an assistant coach with Team USA? During his stint as TV analyst of TeamUSA games he kept mentioning his extensive international basketball experience (over and over) and pointing out problems with the team and how they should have been handled.

Gary Parrish blogs about another Huggins Thuggins incident at Kansas State but with Woolridge's players, Florida players getting their rings (Thanks Frodo) while trying to lure 2007 recruit Patrick Patterson (insert LOTR moment here), journeyman prepster Roburt Sallie trying to become eligible (now at Nebraska)

The 144 CHN previews march on with some fun teams: Vandy, West Virginia, Stanford (Lopez twins!), and St Louis.

CSTV Daily news features even more schedule updates such as UCI (Irvine), American, Baylor, Georgetown, BC (Boston Collage), UTPA, Bowling Green, So. Miss, Pitt, Colorada, and a whole lot more.

Andy Katz blogs about the "underreported stories" of the summer in his quasi-free blog (link in the left column of this blog)

CSTV Recruiting reports that Bob Knight beat out Huggie-Bear and Matt Drama of SMU for the services of a touted 2007 Texan. Others getting new verbals: Charlotte, New Mexico State, Temple and new coach Fran D, Tulane, UCLA (2008 recruit) and UNLV. Meanwhile Oregon State is trying to become Serbia-West with two more Serbian recruits :-) For all the details visit the Bill Hodges daily report at CSTV

Shoe Wars: An interesting story posted at TheSportsBizBlog here at blogspot about the $15 (yes fifteen dollar) shoe marketed by Starbury. Included is a link to a story and roundtable discussion at NPR.

Enjoy our review of the Lindy's 2006-2007 college basketball preview magazine


TV segment

TV update: A College Basketball Coaches Golf Tourney will be covered on the Gold Channel (usually on expanded cable, check local listings). Coverage begins Tuesday September 12. The official name of the event is "Big Break All-Star Challenge". Details at The Gold Channel page. It looks like it will repeat a few times if you miss the first airing. Included are Jim Calhoun of UConn, Jim Boeheim of Syracuse and Gary Williams of Maryland. I have not found any additional details.

The Marquette BasketBall here at blogspot talks about what went on behind the scenes as the Big East was pondering whether to go for a conference-branded TV channel like the Big 10 (eleven teams) or expand their ESPN deals. The SEC and Big 12 are allegedly pondering on this. As you may recall CSTV started this trend last year with C-USA and MWC local/regional branding. The blog also digs into Marquette's 2006-2007 schedule.