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Sean Woods, men’s basketball coach at Morehead State, should be receiving his walking papers this weekend after his physical and verbal confrontation with a student-athlete during their Wednesday night loss to Kentucky.
Coaches are supposed to be role models for their kids at all levels. Though the amateurism of NCAA athletics is much maligned, it is still a place where coaches – who in the revenue sports earn handsome six-figure salaries or more – are ethically bound to teach character and composure to their student-athletes under pressure-packed situations.
The harshest lesson for a do-gooder to accept is that the very people he/she assists are the very people most likely to harm the do-gooder. It’s my suspicion that Bernie Fine, the former Syracuse basketball assistant, spent... more »
During last year’s NCAA basketball tournament, fans around the country were treated to something almost as sweet as seeing their own teams win the national championship: watching Duke lose. In its opening game. To... more »
One year after he served as a ball boy for the game between Michigan State and North Carolina aboard the USS Carl Vinson last November, Kyle Kriebel still chuckles at the memory of his futile attempts to keep the floor... more »
VALPARAISO, Ind. — It was 5 a.m., and the question occurred: Why was a sophomore in a Santa Claus outfit tailgating in the parking lot outside the basketball arena? ``Why not?'' Joey Basio asked. OK, he had me there.... more »
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