The University of Oklahoma announced Thursday that the men's basketball program committed two major rules violations when a former assistant coach failed to report that a player had received improper benefits and lied to the university and the NCAA investigators. While former OU men's basketball coach, now Duke assistant coach, Jeff Capel has never been implicated, the violations occurred with one of his assistants and during his time as head coach. These charges are not new. There has been discussion ...

The upcoming draft is considered weak. In weak drafts a lot of mistakes are made because players do not clearly differentiate themselves from their peers. Hence Kwame Brown being taken first in 2001 because he was an athletic 7-footer fresh out of high school, or Carlos Boozer falling to the second round in the 2002 draft due to injury concerns. It's the little details that causes teams to turn their backs on a potential draftees, ...

The college baseball post season is underway as the MEAC is having its baseball tournament in sunny Daytona Beach, FL.An automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament is on the line as the winner of the tournament will advance to the Big dance. Bethune Cookman has won this tournament five straight times and is again the favorite to win it all this year.The Wildcats went 18-0 in the regular season in MEAC games. On Wednesday they ...

Dominic Artis is an artist with the basketball. He has some of the best ball handling in the class of 2012, but Artis is very underrated. ESPN.com has Artis rated a 40 out of 100, but he hasn’t gone completely unnoticed. Artis, 5’11", 165 pounds, has offers from California, Florida International, Nevada, UC Davis and Washington State. Florida International and Nevada are strongly pursuing Artis, and who could blame them? With a killer step-back jumper to go ...

As spring football practices wrap, many college fans turn their focus on baseball as they wait for fall. Since this is all most of us have, who do you think each preseason Top 25 team corresponds with in Major League Baseball?Seriously, this means absolutely nothing, but it’s sort of a fun exercise.Begin Slideshow

The UCLA Bruins concluded their spring practices for 2011 with a spring game at chilly Drake Stadium that came and went virtually without incident.In front of a solidly blue but mostly subdued crowd, Rick Neuheisel unveiled a team that can best be described as a "work in progress", with plenty more to be done in the four-and-a-half months left until the Bruins open their season with a road game against the Houston Cougars.It's tough to ...

Before taking stage for his “Violent Torpedo of Truth” show in Atlanta on Thursday, the most popular man in the universe, Charlie Sheen, made a stop at the Georgia Tech University campus. After Todd Zeile of all people reached out to Georgia Tech baseball manager Danny Hall to arrange the visit, Sheen practiced with the Georgia Tech baseball team for nearly hours on Thursday afternoon. According to Georgia Tech spokesman Dean Buchan, Sheen took some BP and ...

The Cincinnati Bearcats took to the field last weekend for their annual spring game, deemed Bearcat Bowl V.  In a slight change from last year, head coach Butch Jones instituted a modified scoring system. He put his players in different game situations and awarded points for the offense and defense based on performance.  In a surprising result to those on hand on a rainy Saturday in Cincinnati, the defense came out on top 63-53, and ...

Jim Larranaga To Join the Miami Hurricanes, But Can He Improve Them Like He Did George Mason? Eventually, you have to leave for greener pastures. Jim Larranaga, the man who once famously led George Mason to the Final Four, will be named the new head man at the University of Miami, according to Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com While coaches at schools like George Mason don't have an impressive pedigree, Larranaga is one of the few ...

Can Landry Jones lead the Sooners to the national championship?Is Florida State back?Will the suspensions affect Ohio State's BCS bowl streak?Is Brian Kelly going to lead the Irish to the BCS promised land?These and other questions are chasing each other around in the heads of college football fans everywhere.While bowl predictions may seem a bit premature, it's never too soon for some prognostication, especially when it involves bowl projections.Take a look...Begin Slideshow