Keith "Cinco" Brown, Randy "Duke" Johnson, A.J. Leggett, Willie Bailey...What do they have in common?  1. They are all from the great state of Florida 2. They are all elite talent with multiple offers from schools from other BCS conferences 3. They all are current verbal commits to the University of Miami and its class of 2012.   Coach Golden has wasted no time in fulfilling his post-signing day news conference statement of reconnecting with schools, players and coaches in ...

More disappointment came to Draddy Gymnasium on Friday night. As Manhattan brought in its third highest attendance of the season, the Jaspers (4-21, 2-12 MAAC) took on first place Fairfield (19-5, 12-2 MAAC) for the second time this season.  The two teams first met in late January. In that meeting, the Stags held off an upset bid from Manhattan, using a run in the final minute to pick up a 61-59 victory. In sum, the rematch ...

Coming into the Ivy League season, everyone was talking about Harvard and Princeton. The teams had lost a combined just seven games, and had picked up solid wins along the way.The other two teams in the mix were Columbia and Yale, both of whom had put together solid non-conference seasons. Tonight Harvard (6-1) was able to grind out a tough win vs. Yale (4-3), and Princeton (6-0) demolished Columbia (3-4). After having a solid season last ...

The Clemson men’s basketball team came into last week knowing they had some work to do if they wanted to earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Tigers took a big step in the right direction by taking down Georgia Tech and Boston College in a span of four days.Clemson started off the two-game stretch last Saturday with a road game at Georgia Tech in the “Thriller Dome.” The game started out with the ...

On Friday, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced its annual midseason Top 30 finalists for the Naismith Award, given each year to the most outstanding player in college basketball. The Pac-10 has three players who were among this elite list of collegiate players: Derrick Williams (Arizona), Isaiah Thomas (Washington) and Klay Thompson (Washington State). Williams leads the conference in field goal percentage (63.3) and is the second-leading scorer at 19.5 PPG. Williams leads the nation in free throws attempted and ...

The Cal Bears endured a less-than-successful 5-7 record last season. It was easily the worst season in Jeff Tedford's tenure as head coach of the Bears.While the defense held tough in most games, the offense stagnated throughout the season, especially after Kevin Riley's career-ending injury.Here are the five most important things the Bears need to address in order to have a bounce-back year in 2011.Begin Slideshow

With a little less than a month left in the NCAA basketball regular season, every team's tournament resume is starting to take shape around the country. Every team will be pushing to make that signature move that will stand out to the selection committee come March. While most tournament caliber teams are pretty clear cut, there may not be a more puzzling prospective field member than the Georgia Bulldogs. In Mark Fox's second season in Athens, the Bulldogs ...

The Longhorns of early November—a team coming off of one of the greatest collapses in the history of college basketball, a team unranked by the AP Poll to begin the year, a team expected to finish fifth in the Big XII Conference behind the likes of Missouri, Baylor, Kansas and Kansas State. The Longhorns of today? A squad rolling, unchallenged, through conference play, a team ranked solidly in the top five of every major college basketball ...

Since the time when gladiators fought in the Roman Empire, crowds who follow their favorite sports heroes have liked to drink it up and argue about which side is the best at their neighborhood bars and taverns.That still goes, and no where is that type of argument at its heated best than at the bars and hangouts that cater to college football fans across the United States.So, sit back and enjoy this look at the ...

The pieces are lying on the table like a jigsaw puzzle. None are missing. They’re face up. All that is left is for the parts to adjoin so that the big picture can present itself. Over the past two recruiting seasons, what has happened is pure success. Like every year, Troy landed some big-time athletes in 2010 and 2011, and lost some as well. This is no surprise. Even ultra-great recruiters Lane Kiffin and Ed ...