I'd like to ask Darrell Arthur what was worse... slipping from lottery pick territory to the 27th overall selection in last Thursday's NBA Draft, or the barrage of interview questions ... Read More

Robin Lopez rocks the "Sideshow Bob meets Oscar Gamble" look as he's congratulated by NBA commissioner David Stern. Getty Images / Nick Laham The most-hyped freshman class in recent memory is now... ... Read More

How does a bar fight become an international incident? The New York Daily News has been following the story of Miladin Kovacevic, a Serbian national and sophomore basketball player at Binghamton ... Read More

The final roster for the U.S. Men's Olympic basketball team was announced this week.

The rivalry between the Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils will be profiled in an HBO documentary to will air next February -- at the height of the ACC ... Read More

Later this week, lingerie retailer Victoria's Secret will debut a new line of "loungewear" (known to the rest of the world as "sweats") featuring logos from 33 different universities. Gisele Bundchen ... Read More

According to internet reports, two more big-name prospects pulled out of the NBA draft just before the 5pm Eastern deadline: North Carolina's Ty Lawson and Arizona's Chase Budinger. Lawson joins teammates ... Read More

ESPN.com is reporting that two more key players from North Carolina's run to the Final Four -- guard Wayne Ellington and sixth man Danny Green -- are returning to school, ... Read More

Last week we linked an item from "Hoops" Weiss of the New York Daily News reporting that high school phenom Lance Stephenson had narrowed his list to USC, UCLA and ... Read More

Today, June 16th, is the last day for underclassmen who haven't signed with agents to withdraw from the NBA Draft. By the end of the day, we should have a ... Read More

Catching up on a few stories... Jason Thompson of Rider College could be a first-round draft pick Getty Images / Jeff Golden Bradford Doolittle of Basketball Prospectus did a really interesting breakdown of ... Read More

Pepperdine's Willie the Wave mascot is right at home on campus in Malibu Getty Images / Jeff Golden

Here's a question for you: when someone blatantly breaks the rules... would you prefer that they do so out of arrogance? Or ignorance? For the sake of my hypothetical, I'd define ... Read More

With recruiting more or less final at this point, it's report card time. Van Coleman of CSTV.com posted his grades for the 2008 recruiting classes this week, with some very ... Read More

Mike Tranghese, commissioner of the Big East conference for the last 19 years, will announce his retirement today, Boston.com reports. During his reign, the conference grew into a 16-team behemoth for ... Read More

Bol Kong is a 20-year old shooting guard for Douglas College in British Columbia. He's impressed scouts in exhibition games against American competition, playing against the likes of Boise State, ... Read More

We've written fairly extensively about Tom Crean's rebuilding efforts at Indiana -- a series of defections, dismissals and departures that have left the Hoosiers with just three returning scholarship players ... Read More

The crazies at Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium send the Maryland Terrapin crowd-surfing. Getty Images / Kevin C. Cox

Longhorns fans' slim hope that Texas guard D.J. Augustin would return for another year were officially dashed yesterday with the news that he's hired an agent. The Austin American Statesman ... Read More

Add the California Attorney General's office to the long list of agencies investigating the transactions between OJ Mayo and Rodney Guillory, the Los Angeles Times reports. Specifically at issue: whether ... Read More

Regular readers are probably aware of my long-term man-crush on Henry Abbott -- or more specifically -- his excellent blog, TrueHoop on ESPN.com. Here's the latest reason why: a roundtable ... Read More

Jim Calhoun's career record shows 774 wins... a very impressive total, good for third among active coaches. But his record against a very different opponent is probably his greatest source of ... Read More