Kentucky guard selected at Freshman of the Year by Basketball writers. INDIANAPOLIS (USBWA) – Kentucky guard Reed Sheppard, one of the country’s top three-point shooters, the Southeastern Conference’s Freshman of the Year and a member of its all-conference second team, has won the 2023-24 Wayman Tisdale Award as the U.S. Basketball Writers Association's National Freshman … [Read more...] about Reed Sheppard wins 2024 Wayman Tisdale Award
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UNC – Kentucky and Las Vegas, Quite A Combo
Normally, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, or so says the clever marketing campaign. Unless that happens to be one of the best non-conference college basketball games that didn't take place in a March tournament setting. I had waffled on attending this game, but finally decided to cover it and secured a credential, flight, and hotel for the weekend. A friend and UNC … [Read more...] about UNC – Kentucky and Las Vegas, Quite A Combo
Fred Hoiberg Looks Good at Presser, on Paper
When you look at numbers alone, the Hoiberg hire makes tons of sense. Though the Bulls had assembled a much better team come start of the 2014/2015 season with the healthy Derrick Rose, two promising rookies in McDermott and Mirotic, the meteoric ascension of Jimmy Butler into a 1B guard, the addition of the best version of the small, quick, journeyman guard yet … [Read more...] about Fred Hoiberg Looks Good at Presser, on Paper
Tiger Woods Quits – The Weekend Sports Report – 2/5/15
with Packer Dave and Steve Leventhal.... Tiger Woods Quits and Withdraws from the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego. Rory Spears from Golfers On Golf.com joins us to talk about the impact on Tiger's season, career, golf. Also Paul Banks from The SportsBank.net chimes in on Big Ten college basketball. Lastly, on what is hopefully the last football segment for a while, … [Read more...] about Tiger Woods Quits – The Weekend Sports Report – 2/5/15