Bell’s hot shooting
sets up possible
playoff rematch
Associated Press Apr 9, 07 10:19 AM CDT
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Phoenix Suns keep rolling through the regular season, with their Sunday win against the Los Angeles Lakers setting up a possible rematch of last year’s first-round playoff series. Raja Bell hit all six of his three point attempts en route to 22 points as the Suns won 115-107.
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Reuters Apr 5, 07 8:39 PM CDT
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Gilbert Arenas, the hot-shooting Washington guard sportswriters are now legally required to describe as "quirky," is out for 2 to 3 months with a knee injury. Unless he recovers and the Wizards reach the NBA Finals minus both him (their leading scorer) and fellow All-Star Caron Butler (out six weeks with a broken hand), he will not play again this season.
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No. 1 seed returns to top of NCAA tourney in easy brush past Rutgers
Associated Press Apr 4, 07 7:34 AM CDT
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The Tennessee Lady Vols won the NCAA title last night, sweeping No. 4 seed Rutgers 59-46 behind a suffocating defensive effort. All-American Candace Parker won her first championship, leading the way with 17 points, as Tennessee broke a nine-year tournament drought. "We were a team that didn't want to be denied," says Coach Pat Summitt.
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He's been studying Mandarin, but may not be heading to Beijing
ESPN Apr 3, 07 10:23 PM CDT
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In Beijing next year, basketball's Team USA may be missing one of the sport's most familiar faces. For flaky-sounding reasons, LeBron James has let it be known that he is "50-50" for the upcoming Tournament of the Americas, an Olympic qualifier, and Jerry Colangelo, the man putting the team together, is not thrilled.
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After Gainsville triumph, does he still want dream job?
Yahoo! Apr 3, 07 10:16 PM CDT
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In the wake of his second straight championship, Gators coach Billy Donovan has a difficult, if enviable, decision. The 41-year-old workaholic can continue stewarding the historic program he has built in Gainesville, or he can fill the vacancy at basketball powerhouse Kentucky, where he was assistant coach for five years.
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Florida Earns Second Championship With Guts and Discipline
Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 3, 07 1:44 PM CDT
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By repeating as national champions, the University of Florida men's basketball team has shown what commitment and teamwork can do, says Dick Jerardi. "It was equal parts breathtaking and mesmerizing," he writes. "If you love to watch selfless basketball in which there is one goal, you had to love watching this Florida team."
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Devils GM takes his own coach's job for second year in a row
Sports Illustrated Apr 2, 07 7:02 PM CDT
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Despite his team's first-place standing in the NHL's Atlantic Division, New Jersey Devils GM Lou Lamoriello has summarily dismissed coach Claude Julien and will coach the team himself for the remainder of the season, which consists of a week and then the playoffs. This is the second time in as many years the perfectionistic Lamoriello has taken his own coach's job.
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Needs four more 50-point games to break Chamberlain's record
Associated Press Mar 25, 07 5:17 PM CDT
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Kobe Bryant’s 50 points Friday night versus the New Orleans Hornets moved the three-time NBA Champion into elite company: Wilt Chamberlain is the only other player to score at least 50 points in at least four consecutive games.
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Women's basketball head coach
Rene Portland resigned amid
allegations of discrimation
Yahoo! Mar 22, 07 4:39 PM CDT
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Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland, who resigned last night, ends her 27-year college career with 606 wins, amid allegations that she discriminated against lesbian players. Under Portland, Penn State played in 21 NCAA tournaments, including the 2000 Final Four, but the team’s performance slipped the last two seasons.
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Sophomore forward/center
Josh McRoberts will enter the draft
Yahoo! Mar 22, 07 4:28 PM CDT
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Duke co-captain Josh McRoberts will enter the NBA draft, he announced yesterday, just a week after his Blue Devils fell in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Duke men’s basketball Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski is OK with that. “It is time for him to move on to the next level,” said Coach K.
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The UT standout, though not a senior,
is eligible for the
2007 draft
Sports Illustrated Mar 22, 07 10:18 AM CDT
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UT women’s basketball standout Candace Parker can declare for the WNBA draft for 2007, even though she's a member of the class of 2008. Parker, who could play her last college basketball game within two weeks, needs only to show she can graduate by December and that she intends to.
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Tom Davis steps down, son Keno steps up as basketball coach
ESPN Mar 22, 07 9:52 AM CDT
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Keno Davis will replace his father, Dr. Tom Davis, who is retiring as Drake University’s men’s basketball head coach. The elder Davis had coached Division I basketball for 32 seasons, the last four at Drake. Earlier, at Lafayette, he gave University of Maryland men’s basketball Head Coach Gary Williams his big coaching break.
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Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest was charged with four misdemeanors Tuesday.
ESPN Mar 21, 07 8:40 PM CDT
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Sacramento Kings forward Ron Artest was charged Tuesday, March 20, with four misdemeanors stemming from an altercation with his wife earlier this month. The famously temperamental NBA player could spend time behind bars if found guilty on any of the four charges, which include battery and corporal injury to a spouse.
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