For years the NCAA has sat by and watched its big time universities make money off of the blood, sweat and tears of some of those people that are deemed as "student athletes". The United States Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created equal", but that statement does not hold true for collegiate [...]
Who will be the 2014 NCAA men's basketball national champion?
When Kevin Ollie took over as the men's head basketball coach at the University of Connecticut in 2012 he had some big shoes to fill. Ollie was taking over for his mentor and longtime UConn head coach Jim Calhoun. During his 26 years with the UConn Huskies, Calhoun won 625 games, made four Final Four [...]
As teams are being eliminated from the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, the speculation has increased as to which players are going to declare for this June's NBA Draft. There wont be any pondering for Creighton University forward Doug McDermott as far as leaving school early due to the fact that he is a senior. But [...]
In 2010, Greg McDermott became the 18th head coach in the history of Creighton University's men's basketball team. Before taking over at Creighton, McDermott was the head coach at Iowa State University. When McDermott left Ames, Iowa for Omaha, Nebraska he brought some extra luggage with him; namely his son Doug McDermott. Coming out of [...]
Periodically the NCAA can drop the hammer down on an athletic program. There was a point shaving incident in the early 1950's that rocked both CCNY and Long Island University which led to both of these national powers in college basketball being reduced to absolutely nothing. In the present day we have seen the sexual [...]
With the landscape of college athletics rapidly changing, no conference has been more affected than the Big East Conference. Several years ago the Big East had 16 members, but things have changed as the Atlantic Coast, Big 12, and Big Ten Conferences have raided the Big East while another conference in the American Athletic Conference [...]