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Assessing The Top 2022 Senior High Schoolers’ September Decisions

Shaedon Sharpe/Canada Basketball | Canada Basketball Forget everything we’ve discussed up to this past month because the recruiting train got off the rails. As many as 17 (!) top-100 players picked places, the top-2 players in the class did so among those in that group, four top-10 prospects overall choose their next destination... and we’re here to cover everything related to those decisions in the second monthly installment related to the 2022 HS class. If you’re one with bad memory, fe...

From Ridiculous Upside | about 4 years ago | 1 read

COLLEGE CROSSECAST Ep. 177: Entering the World Famous Transfer Portal

Photo by Justin Tafoya/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Coaches are moving, players are moving, the PLL season is moving, and money’s moving. We chat about it all on a new CROSSECAST. COLLEGE CROSSECAST is back with an offseason episode to help get you through the early part of the summer! With the transfer portal open, musical chairs being played in NCAA Women’s Lacrosse heading coaching positions, and the PLL season at full swing, plus a thing you may have heard about with student-athletes ...

From College Crosse | over 4 years ago | 0 reads

Stanford product Alanna Smith named to Australia’s Olympic roster

Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports Women’s basketball star in line for Olympic debut. The Australian women’s basketball program announced the national team roster for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics this week, and a Stanford Cardinal product was among the players who made the cut. Forward Alanna Smith, who played for the Cardinal from 2015-19, is one of 12 players selected for the squad, one of four who will be making her Olympic debut this year if everything goes according to plan. ...

From Rule Of Tree | over 4 years ago | 0 reads

Currently Cardinal, 5/10: What’s been going on?

It’s been awhile folks, glad to be back In case you forgot, the Stanford Cardinal are National Champions. I didn’t forget. I didn’t miss a minute of the action as Coach Tara led her group to a dominant tournament appearance and a fabulous National Championship Game victory. Yes, I actually follow Stanford Athletics when I’m not on duty, when I’m off the clock, so to speak. I know it’s been a while since you’ve seen my name in the byline above but I am back after a long 88 business days away ...

From Rule Of Tree | over 4 years ago | 0 reads

What’s Bruin, 5/10: Good to be back

It’s been awhile – what did I miss while I was gone? It’s been a good bit of time since I’ve been here — and since you’ve heard from me. After 88 ‘business days’ and what equated to just over four months, yours truly is back at it. And what better way to start than dropping all the latest info on your UCLA Bruins as it happened over the weekend. It was a busy past few months for me as we had a baby, adjusted to life with two, bought and moved into a new house while the real estate marke...

From Bruins Nation | over 4 years ago | 0 reads

How to Watch Gonzaga vs. Baylor, NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament final

Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports The other bball title game is here. You’re probably still basking in the glow of the Stanford Cardinal ’s first women’s basketball national championship in 29 years — why wouldn’t you be? — but if you can’t get enough college basketball, the men’s NCAA Tournament championship game is Monday evening in Indianapolis. It’s an intriguing matchup if you like upstarts, as perennial mid-major power Gonzaga have a chance to win their first national title and they...

From Rule Of Tree | over 4 years ago | 3 reads

Week 2 game times announced for the Pac-12 slate

Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images Six games are set — will we make it to Saturday will all six still intact? The Pac-12 football slate is set to commence for Week 2. Even though we saw two games cancelled and four teams with a season-opening performance, optimism runs wild for a full slate of games this weekend. The Pac-12 football season continues with No. 20 USC (1-0) squaring off against Arizona (0-0) at 12:30 pm (3:30 pm ET) Colorado (1-0) facing Stanford (0-1) at 12:30 pm (3:...

From Pacific Takes | about 5 years ago | 0 reads

TCU’s next offensive adjustment

Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images This offseason Gary Patterson has quietly been assembling the staff and players to infuse his program with the one offensive tactic that has always given him fits. The greatest rivalry of the early 2010s in the Big 12 was the one between Gary Patterson’s TCU and Art Briles’ Baylor. It was an annual showdown between the state’s brightest offensive and defensive minds, played out through a pair of private schools largely considered as afterthoughts in th...

From Football Study Hall | over 6 years ago | 2 reads

“Albertsons Day With the Miners” Returns With UTEP Hoops on Saturday

foursquare.com EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s and women’s basketball coaches, and the UTEP Spirit Squad will be making appearances at Albertsons locations in the El Paso community on Saturday (Sept. 8) as part of the Miners’ partnership with the grocery store. “Albertsons Day With the Miners” will encompass a total of eight stores in the city of El Paso. From 10 a.m. – noon, UTEP representatives will be on hand at 3100 Mesa Street, 5630 North Desert Boulevard, 2200 Yarbrough Drive and ...

From Miner Rush | about 7 years ago | 1 read

Reed Brown Kicks to Win 2016 Boys’ Foot Locker XC Championship

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Brown used the downhill to put himself in contention and the final straight to showcase his mile speed. Coming into the 2016 Footlocker Boys’ race, the only thing we really felt comfortable saying we knew is that we didn’t know how this race would play out at all. With as many as 10 boys in possible contention for the win, we expected that the race would be close throughout, but had no confidence to claim to know who would emerge from that group. In the early ...

From Stride Nation | almost 9 years ago | 1 read