Ron Zook made it clear once Jacob Charest left, that it would leave the door open for them to go after one or two more quarterbacks during the recruiting process this year. He followed through with that statement—Illinois got a solid verbal from Warrenville South quarterback, Reilly O’Toole. "I visited there many times, talked to the coaches a lot before making my decision and just being down there I feel really comfortable with the coaches," said O'Toole. ...

Superstitions and the belief of luck in sports are often based on pivotal insignificance. As sports fans, we find the smallest fractions of information, maximize its value in our minds, and eventually buy into the concept that this means the world for our teams. You know the examples, you might even have a few of your own: a rabbit’s foot, a lucky T-shirt, an incoherently skewed statistic, a game-day ritual, rubbing ...

The opening of the 2010 University of Michigan football season is getting closer and it looks to be one of the most anticipated to date. On the other hand, the news surrounding the program has been less than positive over the last few months. This has been especially true over the past few weeks with the loss of 2010 recruits Demar Dorsey, Antonio Kinard, and Cornelious Jones. Despite the setbacks, Michigan fans should have a positive ...

After all was said and done, the SEC remained a consistent entity throughout the “conference expansion” ordeal.  And consistency is the key word for any team vying to head to Atlanta for the SEC Championship.  As a whole you can see many different variations for this season, a one team league, a two team league, or a gaggle of eight to ten win teams looking for a bid to the Sugar Bowl.  Instead of going game by ...

When the question of who will win the SEC in basketball comes up, one immediately thinks of Kentucky and Tennessee. Now if I were to ask you who will be a deadly underrated team in the SEC, you would say Florida or Vanderbilt. What if I was to tell you that Georgia is the most lethal team in the SEC? You would laugh and say, "Stop writing articles right now." Well that is what I'm about to say. Georgia is the most ...

Going undrafted wasn't the end of Raymar Morgan's NBA dream. The former Michigan State Spartan signed late last week with the Washington Wizards to play summer ball, after reportedly shrugging off multiple offers from other organizations. The Wizards are a franchise in rebuilding mode. The gun-play between Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton kept the team in the news for the wrong reasons. Arenas' future with Washington is in jeopardy, and Crittenton is reportedly playing on the Los Angeles ...

The UNLV Running Rebels are a Top 25 preseason team with four scholarship seniors coming back on the roster including star player Tre'Von Willis. Willis, a transfer from Memphis, was a First Team Mountain West selection last season and averaged 17.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game last year. Yesterday morning Willis was arrested by Henderson, NV. police on charges of felony domestic battery by strangulation, felony grand larceny, and misdemeanor coercion. These are serious charges ...

In the second version of Duke men's basketball offseason report, Blue Devils past, present, and future continue to make news in the basketball world.   Former Duke Player Jeff Capel to Lead Incoming Freshmen Oklahoma head coach Jeff Capel, former Blue Devils from 1993 to 1997, is coaching the 2010 USA Basketball Men's U18 National Team. Among the players on his squad are incoming Duke freshmen Kyrie Irving and Josh Hairston. Both won states titles last season as seniors, were ...

There are always going to be critical fans-those who are never going to like the great teams or the great coaches. Then, there are the fans who believe only one great team and one great coach exist.  The third type are the realists. These are the ones who accept that there is more to college basketball than just their traditionally great program with their coach who has been at that school his entire career and has ...

Everyone’s IQ spikes while playing the hindsight game.   Little bits and pieces that went unnoticed in the past are suddenly thrust under a 400x magnification microscope.   Telling signs we failed to recognize now stand out more than ever.   For USC’s football program, the A-List celebrities hovering in the near background at practices, meetings, and media events sent the wrong message.   It was cool then. It’s a red flag now.   The revolving door, where some of the world’s most recognizable entertainers ...