Monday Night Hoops!

Well okay, it's Monday morning :) The Amazon extravaganza continues with college hoodies with arch and mascot for $13 each, available for 29 universities famous for their football and basketball programs. List of 29 colleges available! The lovely pictures in this post are some of the hoodies on sale, and they can take you directly to the Amazon product page.



Remember, Midnight Madness is less than two weeks away, Saturday October 13, 2007. A Sea of Blue has a midnight madness countdown clock on their site! And it's not at midnight anymore, it has been pushed earlier on in order to accomodate families with kids and such. Stay tuned to this blog for details on TV coverage of Midnight Madness. Usually regional FSNs and Fox College Sports show the Kentucky midnight madness, ESPNU travels around the country, ESPN2 shows highlights of the ESPNU coverage along with ESPN News, and sometimes FSN's Best Darned Not-Sports Show has some coverage as well. A couple of years ago they went to Arizona, last year they didn't do anything MM related.

And before we get started, a quick note, today's Outside the Lines (OTL) on ESPN features the Colorado Rockies and Randy Moss. Also some coverage of the tragic fatal shooting of a Memphis Tigers offensive lineman.



The Goodman Files

The best point guard of the 2007 class according Jimmy "Dog and Pony Show" Dykes is unfortunately out for the season after an injury during a pick up game according to Goodman's blog. But there's good news for Hoyas fans, Final Four coach John Thompson has agreed to a contract extension through 2013.

Goodman reports on some Weekend Madness. OJ Mayo breaks hearts and jaws at USC, while a Kelvin Sampson recruit gets busted for trafficking crack. OUCH!

Goodman agrees with me that Pargo is one of the most underrated guards. Probably because the "analysts" were too busy watching Duke or other BCS teams so they probably don't even know who he is. Goodman looks at the Zags roster and thinks they can go long and deep. There are some nice nuggets in this post, a must read: "it was difficult for him to get Morrison to defend because there wasn’t a viable alternative".


The Blogosphrere Files

March Madness All Season (MMAS) revisits the 2006-2007 season and then plans ahead for 2007-2008 with an elaborate and detailed preview plan. Bookmark and visit!

Football, smoking ban in Tennessee and more at the Irish Trojan blog.

CAA conference updates at the CAA Hoops blog at Wordpress.

La Rev has a tournament of 64 of a different kind.

Poster-boy family of high integrity and values were the Redicks portrayed by Vitale and other Duke worshipers. Well, how about the harassing text messages?

March To Madness hands out a new award!

Rush the Court takes a critical look at college athletics.

Catch up with the latest from the mid major's world at the Mid-Majority Repor(t).


The DeCourcy Files

DeCourcy asks ten vital questions for the upcoming season.

Ouch for the Johnnies, as De Courcy takes a critical look at their recruiting success in NYC.

DeCourcy dishes on Western Kentucky, Kentucky Midnight Madness, and Justin Cecil of North Florida.



The Big Media Files

CBS Sportsline covers JT3's six year contract extension at Georgetown. The salary is not mentioned but JT3 was one of the most underpaid coaches as he was "only" making half a million a year. Sprewell couldn't feed his children for one month with that amount!

The previews keep on coming at CHN, with Bradley, Alabama, San Diego State, Maryland, Turnaround Tom, and Majerusless Utah.

Some herbs were found in Duke Crews's apartment. Apparently they were not deemed as cooking herbs, even though some people like to use them in their brownies ;-)

A Rutgers professor creates a big stir with his remarks says CBS Sportsline. Professor William C. Dowling said this among other things: "But they give it to a functional illiterate who can't read a cereal box, and then make him spend 50 hours a week on physical skills". He should hope that those big offensive linemen can't read the nametags on professors's offices, because if they can, they will find him ;-)