Weekend update!

• Thanks to Jonathans Givony's blog at DraftExpess.com for the link from their website!
  
• The latest recruiting updates with links to stories about verbals for Pitt, Minnessota, Nevada, Charlotte, UMass, Nebraska, Tulane, Wichita State, Oregon, SDSU, TCU and Creighton among many others at Recruiting Wars. Also the latest recruiting battles in a Jeff Goodman story at Fox Sports.
  
• Among the stories at InsideHoops: Other stories: A sad day in the Purdue family. $25 million towards facility upgrades for the Domers. Big East teams in the upcoming polls. University of Georgia president addresses graduation rates, recruiting and competitiveness. An SF Chronicle story on the new NBA Draft rule, highlighting Greg Oden and Spencer Hawes. A Cincinatti Post story on why Kentucky "failed" last season (Thank You Randolph Fax-the-Papers Morris). Former Kentucky Jules Camara deciding where to play pro, in Lebanon or Iran?
  They also report a series of problems:
  
  • Eligibility issues with 7'3" Thabeet at UConn
    
  • Qualifying issues @ Arkansas with Michael Washington
    
  • Prowell and Dollard suspended at Auburn
    
  • Richard McBride suspended at Illinois
    
  • A congressman questions NCAAs tax-exempt status. Myles Brand the CEO of the most profitable entity not paying taxes?
    
  • Too much coffee at UMass?
    
  
  
• The CHN previews continue on pace with UConn, Virginia (rated too high imho), Xavier, Michigan State, etc.
  
• Gary Parrish blogs again, this time on Sonny Vaccaro refusing to back down.
  
• Andy Katz Insider talks about Hal Pastner planning to start a new early July high school evaluation event, and Dick Davey being a do-everything kind of guy at Santa Clara.
  
• CSTV Daily News is as always loaded with information on many teams. There you will find that Gary Williams will appear on Comcast Sports Net's "Monday Night Live", you will get a profile on South Carolina's Bryce Sheldon, learn about Midnight Madness plans for many universities, Missouri celebrating a game scheduled on ESPN360 (thank you Quin Snyder), the Valley (MVC) reaching new attendance highs and CSTV's Andy Elrick planning to attend the Colonial's (CAA) Media Day on October 25. He also lists his All-Name team (ten of the most unique player names according to him).
  
• Luke Winn of CNNSI gets repremanded by one of the readers as he veers deep into politics.
  
• Seth Davis (re)visits AJ Price of UConn. INSERT favorite LAPTOP joke HERE!
  
• CNNSI On Campus selects the top 15 freshmen this year. Not basketball only, but obviously Greg Oden is included.
  
• Free Tickets Anybody? It took the Kentucky fans 30 minutes to grab 21,000 free tickets for their Midnight Madness extravaganza. Midnight Madness is October 13. Last year Kentucky's was featured on Fox College Sports. This year they are opting to cover Florida (National Champions you see).
  
• Barton county Prison Break?
  
  
• Coming Soon: Review of the Sporting News 2006-2007 College Basketball Preview Yearbook