Monday, May 20th, 2013

Today, it was reported that former Tennessee Vols basketball coach Bruce Pearl would be handed a 3-year ’show-cause’ penalty from the NCAA.  One of the harshest penalties the NCAA can levy against a (former) head coach.
The University, according to the report, wouldn’t be penalized any further.
The report if true will bring a bit of closure for the [...]

It’s time for the 2011 Sportscasm NBA Awards.  With any awards list, you will either agree or disagree. This is simply our choices of who we thought the best of the best were in the 2010/11 season.
Most Valuable Player (MVP) – Derrick Rose – Rose led the Memphis Tigers to the National Championship game just [...]

Derrick Rose put the exclamation point on his MVP season last night when he stole the ball against the New York Knicks and drove down the court for a powerful, two-handed, double pump, reverse slam dunk.
Rose’s Chicago Bulls defeated the Knicks 103-90.
It is now the consensus of NBA experts that Rose will in fact be the MVP [...]

LeBron James is known more for his patented powder toss before basketball games than he for winning NBA championships.
It really shouldn’t be as surprise the rest of the starters for the East at the All-Star Game joined LBJ pre-game to simultaneously toss baby powder into the air.
The starters for the 2011 Eastern Conference All-Star team (LeBron, [...]

The Chicago Bulls made it 4-in-a-row cruising into the All-Star break by beating the NBA-leading San Antonio Spurs 109-99.  Derrick Rose was on fire, scoring 42 points for a career high.  ESPN reports:

Once again hearing “M-V-P! M-V-P!” chants, Rose was at his best when San Antonio challenged Chicago in the fourth quarter. He had [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers, holding with tradition as the reigning NBA champs, visited the President in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.
The Lakers have been there so much of late that President Barack Obama and the team decided to meet at the Boys & Girls Club and work on a community service project with the children at [...]

My favorite video basketball game from my childhood, and the most popular arcade basketball game of all-time, NBA JAM is coming back this fall for the Wii, Playstation 3, and Xbox 360.
The game will be sold as NBA JAM for the Wii and will be included with and part of NBA ELITE 11 for Playstation [...]

2010 #1 overall high school recruit Brandon Knight announced on Wednesday that he will head to Lexington in the fall to play for John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats.
“The place where I plan to my college basketball is at the University of Kentucky,” Knight said.
Knight will hope to quickly follow Calipari point guards Derrick Rose, Tyreke [...]