The NCAA’s tyrannical reign of emptying student-athletes pockets with the same vigor Suge Knight displayed while dangling Vanilla Ice upside down over a balcony for the rights to his album royalties, is approaching its denouement. On Monday morning, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed HB 206, named the Fair Pay to Play Act on HBO’s The Shop alongside LeBron James, Maverick Carter [&hellip

Larry Brown’s legacy is a difficult one to pin down. On one hand, he’s a brilliant basketball professor.  On another hand, his perpetual wanderlust has made him unreliable to count on long-term. During a nearly half-century of coaching, Brown has accumulated more Air Miles than a Secretary of State taking 13 different jobs, with only one stint lasting longer than [&hellip

Cal hoops coach Cuonzo Martin must be one hell of a card player. On the sidelines, his tone and demeanor rarely change; his suits don’t even seem to wrinkle. He isn’t a tactician known for sui generis schemes like John Beilein or Shaka Smart. He isn’t an icon who gets blue-chip recruits because of his, or his program’s, name recognition. [&hellip

Kentucky fans were all amazed at how we were not picked for the NCAA tournament and even more surprised when low seed Robert Morris trounced us out of the first round in the NIT. But have no fear Wildcat fans, help is on the way in the form of recruitment. The Wildcats have by far the number onerecruiting class in 2013 by [&hellip

Through the first three rounds of the Big Dance, Russ Smith has been tap dancing around defenses like Gregory Hines at the Apollo. Smith has a common name, but he does not have a common game. Not much about Smith is generic. Besides, he’s more commonly known as “Buckets by Russ” or Russdiculous. When Peyton Siva committed his second foul [&hellip