Landry Fields was the most impressive. Jeremy Lin benefited the most. Omar Samhan turned some heads. Jerome Randle should look for work in Europe. Those interested in a concise report on how local players did in the NBA summer league may digest those sentences and get on with their day. Of course, anyone interested in how ...
The only college football question being asked in June is, “Well, how’s that recruiting going?” To which every diehard alumnus will respond, “Great, just great. I think we’re gonna get this kid from Cut Bank, Montana, who they say can throw the ball on a line through a moving tire from 150 yards away — from his knees ...
Remember Phil Mathews? He was San Francisco’s head coach before Jessie Evans, who was replaced by Eddie Sutton, who was succeeded by Rex Walters. But it was under Mathews that the Dons made their most recent trip to the NCAA Tournament. Well, Mathews has been named an assistant coach on Ben Howland’s staff at UCLA, ...
We can only hope San Francisco made its choice of its women’s basketball head coach based on her coaching expertise and not merely as a means to gain attention. Hiring former Stanford All-American Jennifer Azzi as its coach will certainly give the Dons some needed publicity, but she has no significant coaching experience. Her chief experience has ...
What happened to St. Mary’s is like . . . . Well, the thing is . . . uh . . . You see, Baylor . . . Umm . . . If the Gales had only . . . . Sometimes . . . that is to say . . . Columnists and analysts will ...
Here’s our five-star recommendation of the NCAA Tournament game to watch if you can only watch one this weekend: St. Mary’s vs. Baylor, Friday, 4:27 p.m., CBS. Now before you start going on about the intrigue of Ivy champion Cornell challenging fast-and-loose Kentucky or the appeal of Kansas-killer Northern Iowa going against Michigan State without ...
You may have driven past the St. Mary’s College campus without realizing it. Of course, you would have to be in Moraga, California, to do that, and that would require getting desperately lost along the deserted winding road that leads nowhere except deeper into trees and green fields. And St. Mary’s is set well back ...
The NCAA Tournament is the time to draw sweeping conclusions based on one day, conveniently forgetting more than four months of activity. So based on Day One of the NCAA Tournament, we can state conclusively that the Big East is terribly overrated, the Pac-10 is a lot better than those ignorant Easterners have suggested, improving ...
As incorrigible list-makers, we at JakesTakeOnSports are noting seven key elements of each game involving the two Bay Area teams: Category No. 1 – Cal vs. Louisville, first-round game in Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday – Key Element 1 – Jay Bilas and Seth Davis provided another reason to mock TV’s college basketball “experts.” They suggested that Cal ...
As of Monday evening, three Bay Area teams have been assured NCAA Tournament berths – the Stanford women, the Cal men (the Bears are in, period, end of discussion) and now the St. Mary’s men, who prevented having to go through six days of anxiety by coming up with their biggest win since at least ...
