Jon Stewart hires a new assistant at Dayton

Featured Story: Jason Whitlock's REAL TALK is back at Fox Sports. This time he covers Imus, Vivian Stringer, and Ronnie Thompson and Ball State. Some interesting stuff: He spent hours in a law office with the three Thompsons (Big John, Georgetown John, and Ball StateRonnie trying to convince him to write a story about the situation. Whitlock did not, but Wilborn (of PTI and Washington Post) wrote it. Whitlock is a Ball State alum and former football player. More revelations by Whitlock: Ronnie was dropping N-bombs (he had an all-black roster), and he randomly told his players "not to trust in (white people)". Whitlock's story is bound to create a big stir!

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!

A mid-major edition of the Goodman blog looking at Pacific (the Big East killer in the NCAA tourney) and Sam Houston State... He also has an update on Jon Stewart at Dayton: He has hired a former A-10 head coach as an assistant. No, not Stephen Colber(t)

It's transfer day today! More at Recruiting Wars. Some of the teams involved: Alabama, Texas Tech, Minnesssooottttaaa, Nebraska, and West Virginia.

Gary Parrish talks about Godfather's new HBO movie with James Gandolfini, as reported at Variety.com. The Godfather being Sonny Vaccaro, the Godfather of Summer Hoops (and shoe deals too)!

Rhode is making a top 60 comeback according to Rivals. Not thanks to Jim Harrick for sure! Rhode has one of the top 10 player names for 2007-2008: Parfait Bitee! (I kid you not, look it up!)

Lots of goodies in Andrew Skwara's mailbag! Score-first point(s) guards, Georgia, Florida State, Nigel Munson, and Four Sleepers for 2007-2008.

The CAA Hoops blog blogger spent some time with Rod Barnes at Ole Miss Georgia State. He talks about Lefty Driesel Rod Barnes and his plans for the 2007-2008 season.

More later on (if there's more happenings)