Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. Most coaches would have been studying yet another scouting report. Most players would have been listening to yet another rap song. But on the bus ride to Ford Field, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo put down his game plan for a moment to look out the window at a row of abandoned buildings. The Spartans basketball team turned off their iPods to follow his gaze. "Win one for Detroit," Izzo pleaded, and his charges nodded along. In the end the Spartans fell short of the 2009 national championship, but for everything else they accomplished during an unforgettable Final Four weekend in Detroit, they are my Sportsmen of the Year.
How do you build the ultimate college squad? This week we asked four college basketball writers to match wits in our second annual College Dream Team Draft, in which they selected the five players and coach whom they felt would give them the best shot at winning a national championship in 2009-10. (The consensus is that the inaugural draft was won by Grant Wahl, who picked a killer lineup of Syracuse's Jonny Flynn, Arizona State's James Harden, Louisville's Terrence Williams, Oklahoma's Blake Griffin and Tulsa's Jerome Jordan, with Rick Pitino as coach.)
It's a tough time to be starting a career.
So did you know Monday is Opening Day in college basketball?
On Thursday, I sent in my ballot for the Naismith Award's preseason watch list. It runs 50 players deep, sets the table for the national player of the year race, and tends to generate two things: fluffy press releases from athletic departments and debate from fans over how/why (insert deserving player's name here) was snubbed. I'm on the Board of Selectors for the award, and while there are no official rules for the voting, my guiding principle is simply, "Don't leave the eventual Naismith winner off of your preseason watch list." Because that would be embarrassing.
Every major-conference team that I'd consider ranking in a preseason top 25 -- well, every team other than Mississippi State -- has made its 2009-10 schedule public, and I spent the last few days poring over them.
This article appears in the Sports Illustrated Presents 75th Anniversary of the Heisman Trophy issue.
Here is the current list of the 2009 preseason basketball tournaments. It will be updated as information becomes available.
With thousands of stores closing in the economic downturn, the increase in empty space at the nation's shopping malls is leaving a hole in the hearts of once-vibrant communities.
College students have volunteered at food pantries for years. But as buying each meal gets pricier, a growing number are finding themselves on the other side of the counter
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. Most coaches would have been studying yet another scouting report. Most players would have been listening to yet another rap song. But on the bus ride to Ford Field, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo put down his game plan for a moment to look out the window at a row of abandoned buildings. The Spartans basketball team turned off their iPods to follow his gaze. "Win one for Detroit," Izzo pleaded, and his charges nodded along. In the end the Spartans fell short of the 2009 national championship, but for everything else they accomplished during an unforgettable Final Four weekend in Detroit, they are my Sportsmen of the Year.
How do you build the ultimate college squad? This week we asked four college basketball writers to match wits in our second annual College Dream Team Draft, in which they selected the five players and coach whom they felt would give them the best shot at winning a national championship in 2009-10. (The consensus is that the inaugural draft was won by Grant Wahl, who picked a killer lineup of Syracuse's Jonny Flynn, Arizona State's James Harden, Louisville's Terrence Williams, Oklahoma's Blake Griffin and Tulsa's Jerome Jordan, with Rick Pitino as coach.)
It's a tough time to be starting a career.
So did you know Monday is Opening Day in college basketball?
On Thursday, I sent in my ballot for the Naismith Award's preseason watch list. It runs 50 players deep, sets the table for the national player of the year race, and tends to generate two things: fluffy press releases from athletic departments and debate from fans over how/why (insert deserving player's name here) was snubbed. I'm on the Board of Selectors for the award, and while there are no official rules for the voting, my guiding principle is simply, "Don't leave the eventual Naismith winner off of your preseason watch list." Because that would be embarrassing.
Every major-conference team that I'd consider ranking in a preseason top 25 -- well, every team other than Mississippi State -- has made its 2009-10 schedule public, and I spent the last few days poring over them.
This article appears in the Sports Illustrated Presents 75th Anniversary of the Heisman Trophy issue.
Here is the current list of the 2009 preseason basketball tournaments. It will be updated as information becomes available.
With thousands of stores closing in the economic downturn, the increase in empty space at the nation's shopping malls is leaving a hole in the hearts of once-vibrant communities.
College students have volunteered at food pantries for years. But as buying each meal gets pricier, a growing number are finding themselves on the other side of the counter
When it was time for Sabiha Ansari to get married, her parents flew her to India. She met her husband-to-be for less than 20 minutes, with family, then was asked whether she liked him.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Thursday's first-round action.
Four people said to have acted on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front have been indicted on a charge of setting fire to an agriculture research building on the Michigan State University campus more than eight years ago, authorities announced Tuesday.
For the past few weeks, we've been hearing about what a wide-open bubble picture we were going to have this year. Well, that picture got a little bit smaller this week, with two teams with at-large profiles from mid-major conferences -- Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference and South Alabama in the Sun Belt -- lost in their conference tournaments. The bubble picture got a little bit smaller, and it will continue to shrink as the week goes on.
Sports Illustrated came out with five regional rivalry covers for the college basketball preview back in November; in retrospect, we probably would have been fine printing just one: Memphis-Tennessee. In 2007-08, no regular-season game has mattered -- or will matter -- as much as the one that will take place on Saturday night at FedEx Forum.
More than a third of 18- to 40-year-olds in the United States have a tattoo, a Pew Research Center survey found last year. CNN.com asked readers to submit photos of their tattoos and tell us the stories behind them.
If prospective buyers looked at your house today, what would they see outside? A giant evergreen that looks as if it might swallow the station wagon, perhaps, scraggly old foundation plants or maybe a kitchen-table view of the neighbors' kids' trampoline?
Affirmative action was the topic of debate leading up to the midterm elections as students at Michigan State University in East Lansing have been rallying for and against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.
In a heated campus event leading up to midterm elections, about 100 students carried signs and chanted slogans at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to protest a game called "Catch an Illegal Immigrant."
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - The job market for college seniors is the best it's been in five years. But it's better at some companies than others.
Officials in some states are considering caps to control increased electric rates, according to a published report.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Most of us work hard for a living. And if we're lucky, we're well compensated for the effort.
As more American manufacturing jobs are lost to plants overseas, one form of subcontracting may actually help keep U.S. manufacturers more competitive in the global marketplace.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The hiring market for new graduates this spring won't resemble the frozen tundra of the past few years.
Posted: 2:15 a.m. ET From Sonia Moghe, Texas A&M University
With less than three weeks before the 2004 presidential election, many Michigan State University students say they are putting their focus on the presidential candidates, not their running mates.
At a time when many Michigan students are struggling to find one decent-paying summer job, Emily Ketterer recently quit two.
The atmosphere on Michigan State University's campus is more subdued now that the dust has settled on the Democrats' race for a presidental candidate.
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Back in the stressful Sixties, ''Tell it like it is!'' was the banner and byword of rebellious youth. Now those kids have grown up. They live in the White House. They dominate the political establi...
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Your May article, ''Student Loan Mess,'' was informative. Since I was the subject of it, however, I want to clarify several points that did not appear in the article. The article mentioned that I r...
The transition from academe's ivory tower to the corporate rat race will be especially brutal this spring when college students enter a job market decimated by layoffs. As many as 25% of the '92 co...
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Paying for the Pentagon, which gets more than 40% of the money Congress spends, is a money-losing proposition for most Americans. But not all. When the taxes paid by the average family are compared...
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