Blake Hinson has a chance to have a decent career in the NBA

Blake Hinson, the Pitt Panthers’ former small forward, didn’t get picked in the two rounds of the 2024 NBA Draft. Instead, Hinson signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Lakers at the draft’s conclusion on Thursday and will probably begin his career with their G League (minor leagues). The Lakers may have been lucky… read more

Pitt’s Bub Carrington is the 14th pick of the 2024 NBA Draft

Unlike the football program that has produced enough NFL talent over the decades to form multiple all-star teams, the list of Pitt men’s basketball players to reach the NBA goes maybe a couple dozen deep. As for any all-star years or anything else impactful? Billy Knight was pretty good. Charles Smith had a decent career…. read more

Bill Walton was a basketball star and social rebel

Can you imagine the reaction today if college basketball’s best player got arrested during an anti-war protest and then had to be bailed out by his head coach? Can you imagine the fury if that same player wrote a letter to the President of the United States and asked him to resign? That was the… read more

Is Tony Pollard’s Replacement in the Draft

Tony Pollard leaves a hole in the Dallas Cowboys roster. Can the Dallas Cowboys draft the next Pollard or Ezekiel Elliott in the NFL Draft?

The Next Dallas Cowboys Offensive Lineman

The Dallas Cowboys should get credit for assembling one of the NFL’s best offensive lines in the past decade. Should they draft OL again?

No athlete left behind a legacy as complex as O.J. Simpson’s

It’s weird writing anything about O.J. Simpson, the Hall of Fame running back who died on Wednesday at the age of 76 after a brief battle with prostate cancer. After all, Simpson most likely murdered two people–his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman–in the summer of 1994. And he was certainly a… read more

UConn predictably won its second-straight national title on Monday night

Rarely, does the winner of the annual 68-team men’s college basketball NCAA Tournament seem inevitable from the start, especially in this day and age of NIL money and the player transfer portal. But that was the case this season when UConn was the heavy favorite to win its second-straight national title. The inevitable became a… read more

Caitlin Clark is a polarizing figure, and that’s good for women’s basketball

Guard Caitlin Clark’s historic career in women’s college basketball ended on Sunday afternoon, as her Iowa Hawkeyes fell to the South Carolina Gamecocks, 87-75, in the women’s national championship game at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio. Clark scored 30 points, but it was no match for a much deeper South Carolina squad that finished… read more

Underdog Uprising: Ricky White Ready to Lead UNLV to Greater Heights in 2024

After a stellar 2023 campaign, UNLV star receiver Ricky White seems ready to improve upon last season and set himself up for the NFL soon.

How Caitlin Clark Turned Me into a Women’s Basketball Fan

Caitlin Clark has become a phenom with her ability to make insane three-pointers. Here is how she turned me into a women’s basketball fan.

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