Watzone has some notes up on Patrick Patterson. Although the family is keeping everything close to the vest, Watzone has some interesting thoughts.

He say he’s not completely sure yet, but Grant Hill is considering retiring. Given his struggles, it might be time. He says he might turn up working in TV.

Reade Seligmann asked K.C. Johnson to post a letter on his site, in which he thanks everyone who helped to expose the case and also to urge people not to stop with the lacrosse case:

…I now know that it is my responsibility to use this experience to help those who will [...]

For Billy Gillispie, the pressure starts more or less immediately, as a member of the Athletics Association Board of Directors, Bill Gatton notes: “For a couple of years, we ought to give every bit of a helping hand to lowering expectations for men’s basketball because the cupboard was kind of left bare,” he told Lexington’s [...]

Luol Deng and Chris Duhon and the Chicago Bulls are the Baby Bulls no longer:  after sweeping Miami, the NBA’s reigning champs, 4-0, the Bulls are making a claim to be one of the NBA’s power teams.
No question that part of it was that Dwyane Wade is still recovering from a late-season injury, but Chicago [...]

After everything that’s happened since last season, it must be an incredible feeling for the lacrosse team to win the ACC championship, beating Virginia 12-9. That can’t make up for everything that’s happened, but it sure can’t hurt.

Frank Dascenzo argues that Duke should retire Jim Spanarkel’s number, and we have to admit we’ve had the same thought ourselves. Spanarkel was an amazing basketball player, and a guy who really gave an awful lot to Duke. He deserves it as much as a number of the guys whose jerseys are up [...]

With the departure of Tubby Smith and the hiring of recruiting junkie Billy Gillispie, Kentucky is investing more in recruiting, boosting the budget for corraling young players by $300,000. A.D. Mitch Barnhart says he’d like to buy a plane for his coaches, but assistant A.D. Rob Mullens says “[t]hree-hundred thousand dollars isn’t [...]

A Maryland athlete publicly coming out as a Duke fan? Good thing this guy is 6-4 and 240. He’ll need it.

On the surface, the idea of Rick Majerus taking the St. Louis job seemed really unlikely. It’s a school with a history of futility which it only broke in recent times.
But as Majerus pointed out after saying he’d take the job, there are things there which appeal to him. It’s a Catholic school, [...]