The Meaningful Collateral

“Damnit Zeno!,” Bob Knight said to his senior guard seconds after his UAB counterpart Robert Vaden blew by him for an easy basket. “Where the hell were you?”.
Martin Zeno walked back to the sidelines, never uttering a word. Knight just shook his head. His Red Raiders now trailed 68-67 with just 6.2 seconds remaining. Forty [...]

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…until I saw that he had one of those jackass press conferences where he’s got the two hats sitting in front of him.

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, the kid above is named Kevin Hart, and he’s a high school football player in Nevada. He announced yesterday that he would be attending [...]

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It was a bad day to be an athletic director (current or former) in Florida yesterday, as two prominent Division I-A school administrations laid some smack down on their athletics programs.
First up was the University of South Florida — darling of TMC and little-guy advocates everywhere — which saw its administration wrest control of academic [...]

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And I thought only the “student-athletes” would get into the action!
12/13/07

Former Buc and current Vike, Dwight Smith was arrested for marijuana possession after a traffic stop.  Smith has also been arrested for “sexing” in a stair well at a Minneapolis club, and cited when he pulled a pellet gun on some dudes at a McDonalds, [...]

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