Aston Villa midfielder Robert Pires received an interesting phone call from New York Red Bulls’ Thierry Henry. Henry asked his former France and Arsenal teammate to join him in Major League Soccer. “Thierry has phoned me,” Pires told the Birmingham […]
The former Boston College and Ohio State coach, Jim O’Brien, was named Emerson College’s men’s basketball coach. Division-III basketball coach isn’t always a glamorous job. But O’Brien doesn’t mind. Or can’t. The Brooklyn native has been out of college coaching […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA lottery Tuesday night and with it were awarded the No. 1 overall pick in the June’s draft. Cleveland had a 2.8% chance at winning the top pick with this particular selection. The pick was […]
NCAA women’s basketball attendance for the 2010-2011 season surpassed 11 million for the fourth-consecutive season. There were also record highs were achieved in Divisions I and III. The NCAA said Tuesday that 8,127,779 people attended Division I games. That breaks […]
The Indiana Pacers are already looking forward to the 2011-2012 season. Pacers President, Larry Bird, told The Associated Press that the team is interested in Mike Brown and Rick Adelman. The team fired Jim O’Brien in January after the Pacers […]
Arizona point guard Lamont Jones plans to transfer – but he isn’t sure where or when. He plans to be closer to his Harlem, NY home. “I would like to thank my coaches, my teammates and all of the U […]
Billy Kennedy is replacing Mark Turgeon as head coach of the Texas A&M basketball team. Kennedy, who left Murray State to take the position, was a former assistant at A&M. At Murray State he won the Ohio Valley Conference Coach […]
Pete Rose says he still wants to manage someday. Rose, who admitted to betting on baseball games, questions why he hasn’t gotten a second chance from Major League Baseball to get back into the game. Charlie Hustle, a .303 lifetime […]
A busy day in the MLS. Multiple games were played, some are still going. In the early games, the Vancouver Whitecaps lost to the New England Revolution. That’s the Whtiecaps 10th consecutive loss. The Revolution had been scoreless in the […]
N.C. State received a waiver from the NCAA Friday, allowing an American Idol finalist to throw out the first pitch. The waiver was necessary because the NCAA doesn’t allow schools to publicize visits from high school players. School spokeswoman, Annabelle […]