With Harrison Barnes returning to North Carolina for his sophomore year, I have found myself wondering just how significant is his return to the team and just how good will this team be with Barnes returning. Barnes’ return, along with the returns of Tyler Zeller, John Henson and Kendall Marshall, means all five starters from last year’s Elite Eight team will be returning as starters again this year. It means that four potential first round draft ...

Spring practice is gone and Notre Dame Stadium has gone silent until September. The Irish slogged it out in the rain last Saturday in the annual Blue-Gold scrimmage and it provided a peek at exactly how far Brian Kelly's troops had come since the Sun Bowl victory. The vast majority of starters saw very limited time, but that doesn't mean fans weren't able to glean some insight on what was to come this fall. Let's go ...

Omaha's new crown jewel has been finished and is a mere 24 hours from its grand opening.  The Creighton Bluejays will take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers in front of a crowd of 24,000 Tuesday night in what will prove to be a historic event for Omaha and college baseball.  TD Ameritrade Park is a $131 million baseball stadium located in North Downtown Omaha, Nebraska that will be home to the College World Series for the ...

The speculation has been crazy about freshman star Harrison Barnes' NBA future. North Carolina officially ended the speculation this morning, reporting on their official Web site that Barnes will be returning to school for the 2011-12 basketball season.Per Tar Heel Blue: North Carolina forward Harrison Barnes, the 2011 Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Year, will return to the Tar Heels for his sophomore season. "As an 18-year old, I'm in the early stages of my life journey," Barnes ...

Steve Spurrier Will Receive a 50 Percent Raise to Coach South Carolina Football in 2011 Steve Spurrier has made great strides since taking over as South Carolina’s head coach, including taking the program to the SEC title game last year. Even so, yesterday’s announcement of his renegotiated contract—which ESPN notes will pay $2.8 million next season after he made $2 million last year—comes at a tough time for the Gamecocks. MUST READ: The 25 Most Overpaid ...

The SEC East is one dominant division. They have three of the top four ranked teams as of the latest poll with No. 1 Vanderbilt, the defending national champions and No. 3 ranked South Carolina, and pre-season No. 1 and current No. 4, Florida. Then there is also a very tough Georgia team giving the "Big Three" all they want. Going into Saturday's action, there were only two games separating the top four teams in the ...

John Calipari has brought in major talent in his two years at Kentucky. Four of the freshmen last year were drafted in the first round, and one or more may do the same thing this year. How do they stack up with the greatest of freshmen in Wildcats history? To come up with this list, I used a formula I found here. The formula looks like this: fg + 3g*.5 + (fga - ...

Kentucky coach John Calipari has made it clear that he thinks that his two freshman stars, Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones, should test the waters of the NBA draft. Before you think that is strange that a coach would "run off" two of his best players, hold on.  Along with that, Calipari has also said that they shouldn't initially hire agents. In doing so, after getting some solid assessments from NBA scouts, they could elect to come back to school for ...

This Saturday, Nebraska will hold its annual Red-White Spring Game. Or, as head coach Bo Pelini puts it, Nebraska will have the 15th practice of the spring, which just happens to be in front of 60,000 people. So if you're going to Lincoln to watch, what should you pay attention to, and what should you ignore? You Should Watch ... Secondary Violations: There is no area where Nebraska has more holes to fill from graduation than in ...

Larry Burton (Syndicated Writer) First of all, don't expect team altering decisions to come from this spring game. The coaches don't look at it as a game, just a glorified practice, and the outcome of who's hot in the spring game has nothing to do later with depth chart assignments. If it did, A.J. McCarron would have been the starter last year and other backups would have nudged out a first teamer. So what SHOULD you expect ...