New updates at Goodman's blog at Fox Sports: Updates on the labor day trips of Oklahoma, Duquesne and OJ Mayo Mania at USC. Goodman quotes USC assistant Bob Cantu on OJ Mayo: "He was very unselfish and was poised running the point”. Because of flood damage, the Trojans were only able to play one game, which kept Mayo and Jefferson's average high :) Also be sure to read the Random Notes with updates on USC, Minnessota, Jamel White, Leonard Washington and more. More from Goodman as he reports on the off-court trouble at Conference USA (Memphis and UAB - ironically the top two teams of C-USA next season). Infact Conference USA is gonna be tougher this year with Southern Miss expected by preseason pollster to be a top 60 team and of course you can never discount Turnaround Tom's team
It's Publish or Parrish at CBS Sportsline where GP talks about the Memphis Tigers, and he even gives us the Top 5 teams of 2008-2009.
Rivals picks the mid-major conferences to watch for 2007-2008. It's hard to write one of those things without one of the leagues or teams being offended for being called mid-majors but what are you gonna do?
Speakign of Rivals, Skwara's mailbag talks of Washington, South Florida, Oklahoma, LSU, and St John's Red Storm (not Redmen)
CAA Hoops blogger reviews the CAA coverage of the first college basketball preview magazine of the season. If you are wondering which one is that, it is the one that comes in early every year - check your local newsstand or check my magazine reviews from last year to find out which one that would be :)
A link via A Sea of Blue on parallels between the football loss of Michigan by Appi State and the Duke/Kentucky basketball game.
The Top 144 CHN previews continue with Duquense, while the Rivals T op 64 previews continue with the Virginia Cavaliers featuring Iverson-Lite (Sean Singletary)
Still "recovering from their undefeated season", the Clemson Tigers are now under under the DeCourcy microscope. He also reports of a space-eater arriving at Indiana at 350 lbs, and the zebras are already cringing at the thought of coaches and players calling it "a Donaghy call". Well then can eject the coaches and the players, but they can't eject the fans. The signs will be there, the chants will be there, the t-shirts will be there. Get ready zebras, brace yourselves you are the Donaghy genaration!
And something for the football fans, John Clay's Sidelines report has created a list of football games on TV this week, both on network and cable TV. The local channels mentioned are for KY, but you can probably find the games at your local network affiliate and regional FSN channel.
4 comments:
I actually picked up my first two preview magazines today, Lindy's and Athlon's. Those are always the first two mags out.
Thanks for the update! So now we are officially in preseason orbit since the first preview magazines have been released!
I'm still trying to decide whether to get them all and review them like I did last year. It may have been a slight overkill :)
I get all of them anyway; I don't really read most of them, but I just like have a huge collection to glance at before the season starts and stuff like that.
Yes indeed! Plus they all have slightly different types of information, some have full rosters, others have jersey numbers. The "high mid-major conference" coverage differs as well, some teams getting full pages others getting 1-2 paragraphs.
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