Block this: Hardaway Jr put Dieng on notice with this power stuff but didn’t get to cut down the nets afterwards. Michigan failed to win the NCAA title Monday night in Atlanta but TIM HARDAWAY JR. can at least be proud of this power slam that pulled the Wolverines within two midway through the second half… As you can see, his dad was awfully proud during that shining moment. Regardless of the outcome, I’m sure Tim...

Monday night’s national championship game was one for the ages as RICK PITINO’s Louisville Cardinals fulfilled their destiny to become college basketball’s best team, defeating Michigan, 82-76. But it wasn’t a gimme as the Wolverines and a freshman fella named Spike gave the Cards all they could...

Coach Pitino hopes the story of Jimmy V and NC State inspires his Cards to a national title Monday night in ATL. Louisville Cardinals coach RICK PITINO knows his team is heavily favored to win the national championship Monday night in Atlanta. Yet the HOF coach wanted his club to understand the significance of this title opportunity that the Cards have before them by pointing out the example set by NC State and Jim Valvano in...

Despite living in the host city and working with the host network, C-Webb will opt to support Michigan from afar. Monday night, Michigan goes after its first national championship since JALEN ROSE and CHRIS WEBBER helped lead the Wolverines to the title game versus North Carolina twenty years ago. Many of the members of that Fab Five team plan to be on hand to support their alma mater at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. All except Chris...

Tim the Hardaway: Junior is making pops proud with his grind-it-out run towards a national championship. I’m not sure if TIM HARDAWAY Jr. inherited his dad’s killer crossover move, but he and the Michigan Wolverines have crossed over everyone in making it to the national championship game, upending Syracuse, 61-56 in the national semifinal on Saturday. Hardaway Jr., who led Michigan with 13 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists,...

Normal Cousin: Can you imagine DeMarcus Cousins as one of Mike Rice’s players at Rutgers? Neither can we. There’s been a lot of reaction to the scandalized mess that took place at Rutgers this past week. Even NBA players like LEBRON JAMES and RAY ALLEN (to name a few) have chimed in on the physical abuse displayed by ousted head coach Mike Rice towards his players. But there’s one ominous NBA player who says he...

King of Dunk: Doug Anderson may not make it as an NBA pro but his ability to dunk places him above all others. Who said dunk contests are dead? Take witness of the high-flying aerial spectacular that Detroit-Mercy’s DOUG ANDERSON put on at Thursday’s College Basketball Dunk Contest in Atlanta… Video courtesy: ESPN Anderson, a senior forward for the Titans, won the dunk contest hands down or body up (as in high up in the...

RU lunatic: Mike Rice’s inappropriate behavior should have met with his immediate dismissal from the outset. It took an avalanche of media exposure and pressure as well as stinging criticism from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, but Rutgers University has fired head basketball coach MIKE RICE Wednesday following video footage showing Rice shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs. Athletic...

Buddy System: Pernetti’s handling of buddy Mike Rice’s actions sends the wrong message on so many levels. ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” has obtained disturbing video footage of Rutgers head basketball coach MIKE RICE verbally abusing his players during practice. Check this out: Video courtesy: ESPN There is absolutely no place in collegiate sports for this kind of behavior. Yet as appalling as Rice actions were,...

No worse for Ware: Kevin receives hospital visit from Coach Pitino and teammates after Cards reached Final Four. If you’re a basketball fan and you watched Sunday’s Louisville-Duke Midwest Regional Final, you know all about Louisville guard KEVIN WARE’s horrific leg injury.  Captured live on CBS, his teammates were so visibly shaken by what they saw that many were in tears and with good reason: Ware suffered an open...