12/14/2025 Christmas is upon us, and the joy of the season can be seen all around–beautifully decorated Christmas trees; colorful lights in bushes and shrubs; cheap light-up reindeer from Costco haplessly strewn across suburban lawns; and horrific decorations consisting of dry macaroni, glitter, and yarn glued to paper plates, made by kindergarteners and affixed to refrigerator doors. But the best part of Christmas is of course…PRESENTS! I understand the true meaning of Chris

12/14/2025 🤠 Aggies Lasso Jacksonville in Dominant Display of 'Bucky Ball' COLLEGE STATION, TX  – The Texas A&M men's basketball team didn't just win their Sunday night matchup against Jacksonville; they delivered a performance so one-sided, it felt less like a basketball game and more like a public exorcism of the frustration built up from last week's gut-wrenching overtime loss. The final score, a whopping  112-75 Aggie victory, suggests the Jacksonville Dolphins may have

12/14/2025 Notre Dame’s men’s basketball team took down Evansville, 82-58, at home on Saturday for their fourth straight win. Braedon Shrewsberry hit eight three point shots on his way to a team-leading 26 points. The feel good vibes of the modest winning streak were tempered by news earlier in the week that Irish star, Markus Burton, would miss extended time due to a left foot/ankle injury. The timeline for his return is unknown. In other roster news, Mark Zackery IV was add

12/14/2025 Kennesaw State Report Week 5:  This Column Is Sponsored By the Letter V and Spiro Agnew “ Veni, Vidi, Vici ,” vocalized victorious Trey Simpson (26 points) after vituperatively vanquishing victims Southern Wesleyan 121-66.   Speaking of the letter V…. What three schools since 2013 whose name starts with the letter “V” have won National Championships? Villanova, Virginia and Vacated (That last part was for you, Mr. Pitino) Venceremos, Vindictive and Vile Versifier o

12/14/2025 A Cy-Hawk sweep! The annual Cy-Hawk series took place this past Wednesday and Thursday in Ames with both the men and women's hoop teams defeating Iowa. Cracking open the chips and pretzels Thursday night expecting to witness Hawkeye misery for 2 straight hours just simply didn't happen. Little brother got out to a 25-12 lead and led by 8 at half. Coach tight shirt must've given his best “This isn't some throwaway game in Rochester” speech. The Cyclones ended the ha

12/13/2025 Univ of Utah said it formed a partnership with a private equity firm because it would’ve been bad marketing to say it formed a partnership with the devil. 12/9/2025 On Sunday, Gonzaga’s Mark Few became the second fastest coach with 750 wins. Though I don’t think his additional training will help him become the first fastest. 12/5/2025 Charles Barkley and Dickie V are calling the 12/13 IU v UK game. I’m guessing it will be both turrible and awesome, baby. 11/30/2025

12/14/2025 The UNC Greensboro Report Week 6: On the Perils of Youth Years ago, I attended a University of Georgia practice to watch Jim Harrick work with a talented roster that included a highly coveted freshman (and no, before you ask, I was not the Educational Consultant). During a scrimmage, the freshman made an astonishingly athletic play that stunned everyone into silence. A star is born. We were witnesses. On the very next possession, he threw a pass so bad that, was Dr

12/14/2025 In League With Creighton Week 6:  Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid Edition “What transpired in the first half is unacceptable.  It’s embarrassing.” -Greg McDermott  Yeah.  What he said. They showed some fight in the second half and made it a compelling game, but these are dark days in Omaha.  There were some positives.  They held the nation’s leading scorer PJ Haggerty to 10 points.  They only missed one free throw.  There was not an outbreak of the Bubonic Plagu

12/14/2025 A road trip to the land of the Fallwells in Lynchburg: All the praying by the home team fans couldn't stop the Lady Spiders as they came away with a 76-61 win. Doogan notched her 30th career game scoring at least 20 points. Ullstrom had her 500th career rebound ranking her 26 on the all time rebound list.  Next up is B-CU. If you can guess the college without a Google search, I'll send you some unwanted snow from Central Virginia. 12/7/2025 A tale of two sides for

12/14/2025 Am I currently writing this at midnight after getting off my shift? You bet I am. The Atlantic 10 calls like the Bat Signal; I arrive at the scene whenever some good A-10 basketball goes down on the weekend. And this past Saturday was absolutely loaded.   George Mason started off on a high note for the conference, breezing by Old Dominion 73-61. Junior Riley Allenspach went off for 26 points on the night, helping the Patriots down the Monarchs. Wait… Patriots beat

12/14/2025 I had a bye week last week when I took a trip to visit our nation's capital. So this week is a double feature of Friars basketball, which is probably more than double what anyone wants to read, but here we go.  Providence had an undefeated week last week (don't expect the words "undefeated" and "Providence" to appear too often here), knocking off Farleigh Dickinson and U.R.I.  I didn't know Farleigh even had a team, and mostly thought it was that fake school in Ani

12/14/2025 The Lady Bonnies have stolen another game on the road.  Good thing they were in Erie, Pennsylvania playing Mercyhurst.  Those NYS troopers might have to put their donuts down and do something.  Bonnies beat Mercyhurst 60-57.  The Lady Lakers at 0-9 decided they wanted to play and kept the game close.  The Lady Bonnies defense came to play hard and kept the Lakers scoreless until the 1:27 mark in the third quarter.  The Lakers last shot bounced off the rim and the L