Weekend Update

Lindy's Sports Top 40 is published in their magazine, which I have reviewed right here. The top four is the expected four, with Florida as #1, NC at #2, Kansas at #3 and Ohio State at #4. Wondering who else made the top 40? You have to check it out yourselves :-) Details on Lindy's sports magazines can be found at LindysSports.com

The mystery continues: We will not find out the details that led to Knight's firing

Rivals Andrew Skwara updates his notebook with a story on UCLA's offense. As expected really, following the horrible style of play which cost UCLA a number of high profile recruits (with the exception of Kevin Love) Ben Howland realized that he has to play faster. So Howland claims they will, but you know how coaches are... Skwara has updates on Josh Shipp and Afflalo's injuries, Sidney Lowe tries to re-recruit Brackman, and a clarification on Kendrick Johnson's transfer. Skwara has a trivia question, which you have to visit his story to find the answer to (Who won the ncaa championship as both players and coaches?)

CHN's 144 previews continue with Maryland, UNLV, Rice, Miami-OH

Rick Bloggino updates his training camp blog with day 8 with a candid but positive evaluation of his current roster. Meanwhile Derrick Caracter did not travel with the team to Canada because of a certain issue that came up and as a precaution he was left behind until the matter is sorted out. More details as they emerge.

Gary Parrish's latest update deals with the Kelvin Sampson fallout as Indiana continue to lose in-state recruits, the last one being Jeff Teague to Wake Forest.

Yocohoops.com talks about Mike Montgomery, the ex-NBA coach

Gary Parrish opens his mailbag. New content as of August 31!

Gary Parrish of CBS Sports talks about whether the current process of Verbal Commitments should be changed

Gary Parrish of CBS Sports is a very busy writer! His latest story is on Recruiting at a BCS school.

Thanks to Coach Tuk's blog for the link!


Good News, Bad News segment

Bad news for Rick Stansbury et al: D. Slater of Mississipppiii State gets suspended for half the 2006-07 season. Not the first sememster, but really half the season as in 50% of the games scheduled. He will be eligible to play Jan 13. Not sure what his violation was, but it must have been something non-trivial for an upperclassman to be punished like that (one would think)

Bad news for Temple and coach Not Chaney: Mark Tyndale and Wayne Marshall AI for Fall. AI = Academically Ineligible. Ouch! This practically ruins their first season without Coach Chaney. Right about now Fran D is thinking "Oooooooooh I should have stayed at Penn" ???

Bad news for Siena: Guard Kojo Mensah is transfering to Dusquene. A popular trend these days as Ron Everhart continues to stockpile transfers there most notably shot-blocking Shawn James of Northeastern.

Good news for Tenneessseeee: Ramar Smith has been cleared by Big Brother to play for the 2006-07 season. The issue was SAT related.

Good news for New Mexico State Tyrone Nelson is re-instated