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Of course he can! The better question might read: Could John Calipari bring top recruits to a service academy or Ivy League school?

Kentucky is to basketball what Churchill Downs is to horse racing. What turf-pawing, wide-eyed colt, fresh off a year of stakes racing would not want to strut his stuff where legends once roamed? Would not a young thoroughbred, likely hailed as the next Secretariat, wish to prance where 23,000 blueblood-thirsty fans and a national t.Never heard of [...]

If you are looking for teams that have benefited from the lockout, you need to look at teams who are ready to play after only a few short weeks of practice. These may not be the teams with the best talent, but these are the teams that are ready to go now and will have the legs to get through a tough 66-game sprint of a season. When you are looking at the Western [...]

When the NBA tips off on Christmas Day for the first time this season, not doubt it will do so in front of packed houses, despite the lockout. Of course the league will have lost a small percentage of fans, but of those fans it has temporarily lost, a fraction of them will never come back to the fold. The state of the economy and the high jobless rate across the [...]

When it comes down to it, these are lean years for the Pac-12 men’s basketball conference. Gone are the days where UCLA was a national powerhouse, or when Arizona was favored in March Madness, the 2011-12 college basketball season looks to be one where the NCAA doesn’t hear much from Pac-12 teams, at least when you look at the conference on paper. The thing is, while the conference doesn’t currently have a team in the [...]

There has been significant talk about the ideal size of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, fueled by the ever growing number of schools that want to participate in the championships. In 2011 there will 342 schools competing for 65 spots in the tournament, meaning fewer than one in every six will qualify.
So what is the big deal about making an appearance in the [...]