May 13
After the Golden State Warriors’ come-from-behind Game 4 win over the San Antonio Spurs to even up their Western Conference semifinals series at 2-2, the primary narrative of the moment focused on the health, determination and near-future outlook of Stephen Curry. The 25-year-old marksman frequently looked far less than 100 percent on Sunday after suffering …
May 08
I quietly hit the 500 post milestone on TSTOS a few posts ago. I can’t believe it. I started this blog in March 2007 during the midst of the Boston Celtics’ god awful 2006-2007 campaign, their worst season of all-time. I originally wanted to rant about the idea of the Celtics tanking the season, which …
May 01
Former Marquette and Hinsdale Central star Brian Wardle is currently the coach at University Wisconsin-Green Bay. There are allegations that he mistreated his college basketball players. No one’s calling him Mike Rice from Rutgers yet; but there are both Brian Wardle supporters and accusers out there. So this Brian Wardle story is only just developing. …
Apr 18
With Mitch McGary and Glenn Robinson III coming back, just how good will the Wolverines be next year? Sure, they lost Tim Hardaway Jr. and Trey Burke to the NBA Draft. And that’s huge. But look how much they have coming back. The #1 ranked power forward and #2 overall recruit in the nation (according …
Apr 11
It’s Thursday and The Stack is here and unfortunately there is not a ton to talk about. First off congrats to Geno Auriemma and the Connecticut Lady Huskies who improved to 8-0 in national championship games under Geno with their 93-60 trouncing of the Louisville Cardinals. UCONN used a 19-0 first half run to put …
Apr 11
Kate Upton was named one of the top ten most desirable women in the world by Ask Men.com. I know what you’re thinking- how was Kate Upton not #1? So you can imagine how many people tweet at her every single day. You can guess how many of those @tweets go ignored, blocked, deleted etc. …
Apr 10
Bob Stoops or “Big game Bob” if you’re from the state of Texas, was asked his opinion on whether or not college athletes should be paid. It must be stated that Stoops takes home an annual salary of nearly $5 million for coaching players that take home an annual salary of $0. But Stoops is …
Apr 09
In the aftermath of his basketball team’s win over Michigan last night, Rick Pitino said he wanted to take his players to New Orleans for tonight’s women’s title matchup between Louisville and UConn. The NCAA, however, said no; that a school flying its players on such a trip violates multiple rules. This fascinates me. MORE…
Apr 08
The Stack is here on championship Monday as college basketball will crown a men’s champion tonight in Atlanta. We’ll talk about that as well as the women’s Final Four in New Orleans so let’s get right to it and see what’s in “the stack” for today, Monday, April 8: Men’s Final Four reaction Louisville is …
Apr 08
The Michigan Wolverines are back in the NCAA basketball national championship game for the first time in twenty years, the Fab Five days. You know what that means? ESPN force-feeding every viewer in the world the infamous Chris Webber faux timeout from the ’93 title game against North Carolina. I hate the full replay from …
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