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Jul

14

Packer Packs His Bags, Kellogg Stuffs His Stat Sheets

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Billy Packer Is Out at CBS Brett Favre Wants Out of Being a Packer Clark Kellogg is Great!While one Packer – Brett Favre – asked for his release today, another Packer – Billy – amicably parted ways with CBS Sports after being the network’s lead college basketball analyst for what seemed like forever but was actually 27 years. Replacing the often irritable yet highly knowledgeable Packer will be the stat-sheet stuffer himself, Clark Kellogg, who will be paired with Jim Natz during the 2009 Final Four.



Jul

13

Lessons Still Being Taught from Davidson & Goliath

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Jason Richards Is Playing with the Miami Heat’s Summer League Team Mario Chalmers and Richards Are Summer League Teammates for the Moment Stephen Curry Update at Lebron James Skills Academy A little more than three months ago, Davidson College – a small liberal arts school near Charlotte, North Carolina – took America on an unforgettable ride in the NCAA tournament, slaying some of the most successful basketball programs in recent memory before coming within a last-second, missed three-pointer of defeating eventual national champion Kansas in the Elite Eight. Any fan who fell in love with Davidson’s selfless style of ball and its lifer coach Bob McKillop will want to catch up on these articles from the weekend detailing the current whereabouts of Davidson’s outstanding backcourt, silky-smooth shooting guard Stephen Curry and very steady and underrated point man Jason Richards.



Mar

10

1996 Kentucky vs. 1995 UCLA, Second Half

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by Chris Maynard, chris@hoops4thesoul.com

Tyus Edney and the 1995 Bruins Are Giving the 1996 Wildcats a Real ScareThe second half of 1996 Kentucky and 1995 UCLA is going down to the wire. The Bruins have seemed left for dead at various moments in this game but are staging one last rally. Can Kentucky and its suddenly cold shooting hold on? Tyus Edney has the ball late in his hands with a chance to tie or win the game for the Bruins. Kentucky fans are cringing as Edney makes his way up the court.



Oct

19

Bloomington, Indiana No Longer the Midwest Epicenter of Old-School College Basketball

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(Disclosure: I went to the University of Illinois and am not writing this column about Indiana Head Coach Kelvin Sampson because of the Eric Gordon saga. I could care less about Gordon’s decision, even though, it was a bad one. In one year at Indiana, Gordon won’t learn much under Sampson. In one year at Illinois, Bruce Weber would have improved his game. Weber is simply the better coach and the better person.)

Indiana Head Basketball Coach Kelvin Sampson Is a Dirty, Dirty Dog!Well look who’s at it again! Indiana Hoosiers Head Coach and perpetual scumbag Kelvin Sampson finds himself in the center of more recruiting violations, once again getting nabbed for making impermissible phone calls to recruits.

Sampson was tight-lipped this afternoon as reporters asked him about the 10 impermissible phone calls that he admitted making to IU basketball recruits. Amazingly, Sampson was found guilty of the same cheating prior to leaving Oklahoma for Indiana after the 2006 NCAA Tournament.

It’s very unfortunate that a guy like Sampson, who is liked by most of the national media because he is typically very accessible to them, continues to break the rules. College recruiting is as about as dirty of a business as there is, and Sampson is a king of filth.

by Chris Maynard, chris@hoops4thesoul.com



Sep

27

Dee for Turkey

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Dee Brown Will Play in Turkey Next Season Rather than with the Utah Jazz —Hoops 4 The Soul Inside the domed space ship, the five figures, all clad in orange, were aliens in the modern day of college basketball. Each pass in the motion offense was a game of connect-the-dots, evoking images of a beam of light bouncing from one constellation to another. The possessions would sometime extend for 15 to 16 passes, and culminate with the diminutive leader, garbed in headband and cornrows, launching a successful missile, as evident by the public address announcer’s infamous “Dee for 3” call.

Former University of Illinois star Dee Brown, a member of the Fighting Illini’s magical 2005 team that lost to North Carolina in the National Championship Game, is now Dee for Turkey. After spending his rookie season with the Utah Jazz and being offered a non-guaranteed contract with the team, Brown has decided to play for Turkish club Galatasaray with hopes of catching on with another NBA squad following the 2007-2008 season.

by Chris Maynard, chris@hoops4thesoul.com