Who knew ’slump buster’ had a second, distinctly different definition?

I did not know that. Thanks, Al.
TheBiglead.com with the pointer. (Video after the jump.)

We know how enthralled you all are over college football, but college basketball is sneaking up on us (note: fans of the Big East already know this, as they have not attended a football game since 1995). To commemorate the opening of the season, on Tuesday, November 17th, ESPN is televising 24 hours of live […]

Well, that didn’t take long. Hours ago, UCF announced that His Heirness Marcus Jordan would be taking the floor in tonight’s exhibition in his dad’s Air Jordans. According to Darren Rovell at CNBC, adidas has responded… by summarily canceling their $1.9 million sponsorship with the Golden Knights.

(But what of the custom-made Air Jordans? All people […]

A couple weeks ago, we brought you news that Marcus Jordan, son of Michael Jordan, was refusing to comply with the school’s adidas shoe deal, insisting instead on wearing Nike on account of his father’s inextricable history with the brand. The story was that UCF had granted him permission to wear Nikes in exchange for […]

Daniel Orton will face insane scrutiny as a highly-touted 6-10 freshman at Kentucky, so it’s good to see him efforting already, even if it is his Halloween costume. (Okay, I know, a stretch. Work with me.)

(From Kentucky Sportsradio)
Orton, on the left, is a Might Morphin Power Ranger. At least that’s what they tell me.  […]

Well, for once it wasn’t a Twitter post that started a huge controversy with an athlete. It was just the little ol’ lead of this LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER story on Kentucky basketball, in which Wildcats beat reporter Jerry Tipton noted that forward Patrick Patterson drove to Wednesday’s Blue-White game in a brand new, rather expensive truck.

Forgive […]

I lived this earlier, but had to give STORMING THE FLOOR another mention for its epic breakdown of the best names in college basketball this season.

(God Bless Apostrophes)
I can affirm that Just-in’love Smith is a baller without even seeing him play. How incredible is STF’s list? Nimrod Tishman is at the very, VERY end […]

As we mentioned a couple months ago, Bob Knight will finally be enshrined into the Indiana University Hall of Fame in November. Though we’re sure hostilities linger on both sides of the fight after Knight’s acrimonious departure, this would be as good a time as any to bury the hatchet and act like adults for […]

Theo Smalling, the popular senior team captain of the Hampton University men’s basketball team, was killed early Saturday in what police are calling an accidental shooting in a nightclub parking lot.

The 22-year-old was shot in the abdomen after another man, 21-year-old Dominique Devon Smith, mishandled a pistol, said police, who have charged Smith with reckless […]

A group of donors has offered to put up $7 million to construct new living quarters for the Kentucky basketball team, but there’s one catch. The new place has to have the word “coal” in its middle name. I’d change my middle name to Coal for 7 mil, but when we’re talking about a university […]