Bob Lipper – A-Hole Extraordinaire

Soupers–
There is nothing like a tirade from an ignorant Virginian to rouse me out of hibernation. Bob Lipper, who is apparently a professional sports journalist, wrote a grimy piece of yellow journalism for the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the Tyree Evans affair.
In his “article”, he trashes Gary Williams and the program that he built at Maryland. [...]

Tyree We Hardly Knew Ye

What a mess our program has become. He’s in, he’s out. He’s in, he’s out.
Tyree Evans is out, and the decision apparently has come from him. His applications for admission wasn’t even done yet. I’m not quite sure what happened here, but there is a lot going on behind the scenes and none of it [...]

The State Of The Game

There have been many responses to Epi’s ‘farewell’ comment last week. All of them have valid points and interesting takes. Here’s why I think college basketball is still one of the more exciting sports out there and sooooo much better than the NBA.
First, it’s obvious that times have changed in college hoops. With the internet [...]

9 Conference Football Games? Nope.

With the hoop craziness quiet for a week, the latest news out of the ACC were the discussions regarding the possibility of adding a 9th conference game to the football season. What that would have done is take away one of the 4 non-conference games per season. But this afternoon, the league has backed off [...]

Gary Bets It All on Evans

CNN/SI writer Luke Winn put together an interesting piece on Tyree Evans today. To put in mildly, it seems that the Maryland beat writers for the Sun and Post gave Gary and the program a pass on this one. After a quick read-through of Winn’s piece; It is clear to me that the Evans signing [...]