Mid-week report

Every 2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament game on DVD!

Recruiting updates at Recruiting Wars with Pitino and Majerus adding 2008 forwards, mid-majors, Kentucky and more... Speaking of recruiting, A Sea of Blue shares my worries that Coach K may use his polish heritage to grab the jumping jack polish sensation Oleg Czyz.

Continued coverage of the NCAA war on bloggers at A Sea of Blue. Quick recap: The NCAA kicked a live blogger out of a game because they thought he violated their copyright by blogging live from a game. Read on for all the details.

Goodman blogs on OJ Mayo arriving on the USC campus. The OJ post has generated a lot of discussion among the readers. As expected. He also talks about Izzo getting his MoJo back, and has a feature on Northwestern State. Props to Goodman for giving the mid-majors some love! Yesterday's post at Goodman's talks about the 2007-2008 mascotless Illinois, Nevada's big recruiting get (beating the Thad Matta Express), and big Joseph Jones (JoJo?) returning to Gillispie-less Texas A&M (he had entered his name in the NBA draft).

Lots of updates at March Madness All Season over at CHN, including Mecha-Roberts (Josh McRoberts of Puke) signing with an agent, a Florida guard getting in trouble with the law, San Diego gets a new coach, and lots and lots of other stories!

Thanks to Iktmmedia.com/UK for the link to this blog!

BYU basketball loses a player to ...USC football. The player in question is redshirt tweener (6-5/200) Jordan Cameron, while Wofford gets their point guard Gibson back from the NBA draft.

And a quick Coaching Carousel paragraph: The anti-Tark (Lon Kruger) gets a contract extension giving him $5.2 million over 5 years. Welcome to the millionaire coaches club Mr Kruger! Meanwhile UCLA loses assistant Chris Carlson to San Diego, where he replaced Ben Howland soundalike and lookalike Brad Holland as the new head coach... With all these coaches leaving, Ben Howland may be forced to hire a coach who actually coaches offense! ;-)

Sportsline has a story on Mecha-Roberts signing with an agent. And that is great news. That means Duke is officially losing Josh McRoberts from the 2007-2008. Although some could argue that he was a case of addition by subtraction.

Look who's blogging now here at Blogspot: MC Hammer!

Meanwhile Gary Parrish becomes a book reviewer, as he reviews the book "Vertical Leap" by Tennessee senior Dane Bradshaw. Bradshaw had his first book signing at Long's Drugs. Already 6000 books have been sold. Bradshaw's basketball career may continue in Germany. Bruce Pearl writes the foreword for his former power forward as he looks forward to life after college (ha!) The book is available at Amazon for under $14

The most flexible Father's day gift!, an Amazon gift certificate, ranging from $5 to $5000. This is a simple, yet very flexible way to pick up a Father's day gift.