It’s been 30 years since the Hoosiers last won a national title, but if you’re not Bob Knight, bringing Indiana back from disaster apparently isn’t enough What’s the worth of building respectability in college basketball?Late in the winter of 2012, not long before Indiana would return to the NCAA tournament that had once been their regular domain, I listened as Hoosiers coach Tom Crean told me how bad things had been four years before. Related: NCAA tournament 2017: first round games, scores and upsets – live! Continue reading...
After missing two years with mental health issues, the former Bucks forward has been offered a second chance by the Cavaliers. Welcome back, LarrySay what you want about the Cleveland Cavaliers, but you can’t say they don’t have backup plans. Days after losing Andrew Bogut 58 seconds into his Cavaliers career, the Eastern Conference leaders brought in former Milwaukee Bucks forward Larry Sanders to take his roster spot. Last night, Sanders appeared in his first NBA game in over two years, appearing in the final minutes of a blowout win over the Detroit Pistons and drawing a positive ovation from the home crowd. Related: Is Kawhi Leonard the NBA's most valuable player? | Hunter Felt Continue reading...
The NCAA tournament is as wildly popular as ever, but the increased emphasis on March means fewer people are paying attention to the regular season Printable NCAA tournament bracket: make your March Madness picks Regional previews: East | Midwest | South | West So you call yourself a college basketball fan? Now that you’ve filled out your brackets, ask yourself this question: how many college basketball games have you watched this year on TV? How many have you seen in person?For an increasing number of Americans, the answer is none, or in most cases, not many. And if you’re looking for a reason why the first four months of the college roundball season are received with such indifference, consider two...
The narcissistic former champion may be one of the greats but prioritised sleep over any show of respect at a recent engagement in LondonFloyd Mayweather deserves to be regarded as the finest defensive boxer of his time and one of the best welterweights in history, although, contrary to his own repeated assertions, not greater than either of the Sugar Rays, Robinson and Leonard.Anyway, what Mayweather does not deserve until he proves otherwise is the respect of British fans who came away from his recent speaking tour livid that he had short-changed them. Related: Michael Conlan: ‘After five years I want to be out of boxing, having made enough money to retire’ “It is undoubtedly a fact that some men of...
The Minnesota United are off to the worst start of any expansion side in MLS history, but fellow debutants Atlanta United are acclimating just fineYou only get one chance to make a first impression. That’s rather unfortunate for Minnesota United, who have made the worst first impression of any expansion side in Major League Soccer history, conceding 11 goals in their first two games, including six in Sunday’s humiliating home opener defeat to fellow expansion side Atlanta United. Somebody did make a rather good impression at a freezing TCF Bank Stadium, though. Miguel Almiron arrived in MLS with a hefty reputation, even if few had watched much of the Paraguayan before signing with Atlanta. Now, however, there’s already enough evidence...