Featuring nine players from the 2009 USA Basketball U16 Championship Team that captured gold at the FIBA Americas Championship in Argentina, the 12 member 2010 USA U17 World Championship Team was announced today. The selections, made by USA Basketball’s Men’s Developmental National Team Committee, came after five training sessions held June 18-20 at the University…
Kenny Payne has joined the UK men’s basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach, head coach John Calipari announced on Friday. Payne comes to Lexington after serving as an assistant at the University of Oregon since the summer of 2004. “Kenny Payne has been a part of our coaching family for the last 10 years…
Indiana Pacers Coach Jim O’Brien announced Thursday the hiring of Walter McCarty as an assistant coach. The 36-year-old McCarty, a native of Evansville, Ind., comes to the Pacers from the University of Louisville where he was an assistant for Coach Rick Pitino. McCarty played collegiately at the University of Kentucky where he was part of…
From The Season Never Ends 2010 Calendar: “Rajon Rondo, the second year guard out of Kentucky charged with steering the Boston Celtics as they tried to quench a 22-year championship drought, delivered big time as the Celtics won their 17th NBA Championship with a 131-92 Game 7 victory over the L.A. Lakers. Rondo had 21…
From ASeaofBlue.com: “With all the hoopla surrounding the departure of John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson, Daniel Orton, and Eric Bledsoe, a couple of Wildcat seniors received little-to-no love from either the “mainstream” media or the UK blogosphere upon their departure from the Kentucky campus. I’m here to right that wrong.” Read full article here.
Leta Andrews, wearing dress pants, a flowery shirt, and high heels, sprints through a Granbury High School hall, down a flight of stairs, around a corner, and into her office — a small room adjacent to the school’s basketball court. She is 72, but she still lives, and coaches, at hyper speed. As she sits…
Former Kentucky great Pat Riley steps down from Lakers after nine years and four NBA titles. From “The Season Never Ends 2010 Calendar: “There are other things I want to do with my life,” said tearful Lakers coach Pat Riley, who announced he was stepping down from the head coaching job in L.A. after an…
The fourth annual DIRECTV SEC/BIG EAST Invitational will be held Dec. 8 and 11 in Louisville and Pittsburgh, ESPN Regional Television announced today. The two-night men’s college basketball event begins with a doubleheader Wednesday, Dec. 8, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, featuring Arkansas vs. Seton Hall at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2, followed by Kentucky…
It was a tragic tale, far from the limelight of professional sports, but a story sad enough to stir an NBA star’s heart to quiet action. When he heard of the murder last Monday of single mother Lucita Charles — who left behind a 7-year-old son with cerebral palsy — not only did Jamaal Magloire…