Despite going undrafted in last month's NBA draft, Mikhail Torrance will continue his basketball career in Israel after signing with Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv.
The contract is only for one year, but the team does have an option to extend his contract to 2012. Torrance will be joined on the team by fellow Crimson Tide alum, Richard Hendrix, who has also signed to play for Maccabi.
Here's hoping it works out for a guy who, by all accounts, has been a hard worker and gracious personality. If his talents had been more appreciated his first three seasons, something tells me Torrance would have left a stronger legacy at Alabama.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Former great Demetrius Jemison transfers to Manhattan...
... following in the steps of another former great in Rico Pickett. What? I thought UCLA was interested. Maybe he wants to live in NYC (which I can't blame him for), but there are better schools in the NYC area to go to. Anyways, good luck I guess.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Recruiting Update: Trevor Lacey
It's Kentucky's world, we just live in it. Huntsville's Lacey is one of the top shooting guard prospects in the nation. He recently he said he will go to UK unless they pick up another 2-guard committment before he decides to make it official. I hate missing out on such highly regarded in-state prospects, but at the same time it's hard to blame somebody for taking an opportunity to play at a placel like UK. link.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Why the NCAA Tournament should have expanded to 96 teams
1) Dissolve the NIT. The NIT is a useless tournament that is a money drain, so merging this with the NCAA tournament to make it 96 makes more financial sense. Let the pay for play tournaments fill that void.
2) A 96 team tournament would lead to fewer upsets of top teams. In a 96 team field the top 4 seeds in each bracket would get a 1st round bye. People talk about loving the upset, but don't tune in if the upset goes too far (unless money is on the line). Problem mostly solved here.
3) More smaller conference schools get to play. A team that wins their regular season title, but loses in their conference tournament would get a chance to play in the NCAAs.
Ideally, I'd like the NCAAT to prohibit teams with non winning conference records from participating. Since that won't happen that's why I'm fine with 96 teams. Don't give me that, "This is a tougher conference" crap as I believe you should have a winning record in conference to get an at large bid.
Expanding to 96 in theory gives 28 more teams a chance to win it all... but in reality 75% of the field don't have a chance to do so. The so called "watering down" theory doesn't apply when we already have teams in the tourney with sub .500 conference records.
Enjoy :)
2) A 96 team tournament would lead to fewer upsets of top teams. In a 96 team field the top 4 seeds in each bracket would get a 1st round bye. People talk about loving the upset, but don't tune in if the upset goes too far (unless money is on the line). Problem mostly solved here.
3) More smaller conference schools get to play. A team that wins their regular season title, but loses in their conference tournament would get a chance to play in the NCAAs.
Ideally, I'd like the NCAAT to prohibit teams with non winning conference records from participating. Since that won't happen that's why I'm fine with 96 teams. Don't give me that, "This is a tougher conference" crap as I believe you should have a winning record in conference to get an at large bid.
Expanding to 96 in theory gives 28 more teams a chance to win it all... but in reality 75% of the field don't have a chance to do so. The so called "watering down" theory doesn't apply when we already have teams in the tourney with sub .500 conference records.
Enjoy :)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
WARNING! WARNING! Barn content... photos of new arena
Here is the link. I'm not actually going to put them up here, but I have to admit it's quite nice. Wish we would've demolished Coleman and built something similar to this. Auburn is putting up a front that they're interested in making a commitment to basketball with this arena and hiring of a John Calapari clone. We will see how this works for them.
I wonder how long before the curtain makes an appearance. I say midway through December 2010.
I wonder how long before the curtain makes an appearance. I say midway through December 2010.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Slow season- my 3 favorite all-time college basketball teams
1) 1989-90 UNLV: Yes, I'm aware they were getting NBA salaries, but man they were fun to watch. Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon, Greg Anthony, Anderson Hunt, and George Ackles throttled just about every opponent in their path.
2) 1985-86 St John's- Chris Mullin, Mark Jackson, and Bill Wennington anchored probably the greatest St John's team in history. 3 of their 4 losses that season came to Georgetown (led by Patrick Ewing).
3) 2001-02 Alabama: I know it ended with a 2nd round blowout to Kent State in the NCAAs, but the regular season was great. Looking back at that roster... man we should've done more with it. Roster
Honorable mention: 1994-95 UCLA, 1992-93 UNC, 1991-92 Duke
2) 1985-86 St John's- Chris Mullin, Mark Jackson, and Bill Wennington anchored probably the greatest St John's team in history. 3 of their 4 losses that season came to Georgetown (led by Patrick Ewing).
3) 2001-02 Alabama: I know it ended with a 2nd round blowout to Kent State in the NCAAs, but the regular season was great. Looking back at that roster... man we should've done more with it. Roster
Honorable mention: 1994-95 UCLA, 1992-93 UNC, 1991-92 Duke
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
ATTENTION NASCAR FANS: If you like car collisions
then you'll love this year's Tour de France. The two differences are that cyclists never face flames and that they have nothing to absorb or deflect the full impact of their falls other than the thin film of lycra that covers their torsos.
American GC contender Christian Vande Velde (photo above) of Garmin Slipstream was able to finish Monday's Stage but was unable to continue riding Wednesday after Xrays revealed he'd suffered several broken ribs. His U.S. teammate, Tyler Farrar, the best American sprinter in the race (photo below) was not so lucky. His broken bones in the same accident were obvious, but he still finished the stage resting his left arm on his handle bars before being taken to the hospital.
The first three days of racing have taken out several of the most notable participants in this year's race and the primary assistants of several others. Yesterday's Stage Two saw almost half of the riders in the race hit the deck after a motorcycle crash spilled across and already-wet, descending side of a steep hill.
I do not find the crashes nearly as exciting as the actual racing. The threat of carnage like what we witnessed the past three days always is just around the corner any at time 190 of the best bicycle riders in the world start racing against one another, and the fact that most of the riders avoid these accident's 99.99% of the time they are on the road makes the racing even more exciting to me.
Today's Stage Three produced lots of excitement across the cobble stone roads of Belgium and France. You probably can see hi lites of yesterday's action and all of today's exciting race on The Versus Channel tonight.
American GC contender Christian Vande Velde (photo above) of Garmin Slipstream was able to finish Monday's Stage but was unable to continue riding Wednesday after Xrays revealed he'd suffered several broken ribs. His U.S. teammate, Tyler Farrar, the best American sprinter in the race (photo below) was not so lucky. His broken bones in the same accident were obvious, but he still finished the stage resting his left arm on his handle bars before being taken to the hospital.
The first three days of racing have taken out several of the most notable participants in this year's race and the primary assistants of several others. Yesterday's Stage Two saw almost half of the riders in the race hit the deck after a motorcycle crash spilled across and already-wet, descending side of a steep hill.
I do not find the crashes nearly as exciting as the actual racing. The threat of carnage like what we witnessed the past three days always is just around the corner any at time 190 of the best bicycle riders in the world start racing against one another, and the fact that most of the riders avoid these accident's 99.99% of the time they are on the road makes the racing even more exciting to me.
Today's Stage Three produced lots of excitement across the cobble stone roads of Belgium and France. You probably can see hi lites of yesterday's action and all of today's exciting race on The Versus Channel tonight.
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Saturday, July 03, 2010
MLB park rankings 2010... the ones I've been to so far.
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