The latest subject in SI.com's Hoops Q&A series is Washington State guard Klay Thompson, who's currently playing for USA Basketball in the FIBA U19 World Championship in New Zealand. As a freshman, he averaged 12.5 points and 4.2 rebounds for a team that finished 16-14. He's the son of former No. 1 draft pick Mychal Thompson, who played in the NBA for the Blazers and Lakers. I spoke with Klay in Colorado Springs before he left for New Zealand. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation.
Every Friday, SI.com's Seth Davis makes his picks on the weekend's top games. These are his first picks of the 2008-09 season.
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Former Washington State governor Booth Gardner is crusading to make physician-assisted suicide legal in his state. It won't be an easy battle
Quentin Thomas sat in a locker stall at Charlotte Bobcats Arena early Sunday morning wearing the hottest thing in men's basketball fashion -- a net necklace.
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 Sweet 16 action.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Taylor Rochestie hadn't revealed the specifics on the phone. All he asked Washington State teammate Daven Harmeling was this: "Can I come by and talk about something?"
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.
This is the point in the season when I, as the Power Rankings guy, feel marginalized. All anyone wants to talk about is seeds, seeds, seeds. So if you can, pretend that this is my elaborate S-curve through the top four lines of the bracket. And if that's not possible, then just bear with me and try to enjoy the blurbs: these are the final Power Rankings of 2007-08. By the time the major-conference tourneys begin next week, I'll have moved on to blogging ...
Five McMansions were torched outside Seattle in what may have been eco-terrorism. But the locals aren't unhappy
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.
Yep, it's that time of year again. With Selection Sunday a mere five weeks away, it's time to start speculating what that ever-anticipated bracket might look like. Much will obviously change between now and then, but it's at least becoming clear which teams are in line for the highest seeds and which ones are treading dangerously close to bubble territory.
Nearly 100 delegates are at stake as Obama and Clinton maneuver in an arena that has caucuses and a primary. He leads in the polls; she in superdelegates
Maybe it's too many years of Bushes of one sort or another. Perhaps it's the prospect of too many years of Clintons of this type or that. But something has me thinking this way, and I can't be the only person who believes the legacy thing has gotten a little out of hand in college basketball.
Worthy of consideration at No. 1:
College hoops turns the corner into the conference home-stretch this evening, and as much as we think we've learned from the first two months of the season, it's not enough. The final Associated Press poll of December 2006 is evidence of just how worthless early-season assessments can be. No one considered that Top 25 to be a total abomination at the time, and yet there was one future NIT team (Alabama) in the top 10 and three more (Oklahoma State, Air Force and Clemson) scattered below.
I don't know how innkeepers do it.
As women's basketball gets ready to honor one of its own who died this weekend at the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden, another heartfelt story is playing out across the country -- this one with a happy ending. After collapsing last May, first-year Washington State women's coach June Daugherty is bouncing back from her own bout with cardiac arrest
As women's basketball gets ready to honor one of its own who died this weekend at the Maggie Dixon Classic at Madison Square Garden, another heartfelt story is playing out across the country -- this one with a happy ending. After collapsing last May, first-year Washington State women's coach June Daughtery is bouncing back from her own bout with cardiac arrest
A double-homicide in Washington state has been seized on by Giuliani as an example of Mitt Romney's problems as a crime fighter
On Sept. 20, the Canadian dollar, known as the "loonie" for the fowl that adorns it, became equal in value to the American dollar.
Six games into the season, it's time to crown your Halfway Heisman winner. Sorry, no all-expenses paid trips to New York, no late-night partying at The Box for the finalists, no painfully long ESPN programming for a 10-second announcement. Let's just cut to the chase.
Following last week's Power Rankings, which included the unfortunate flaw of having Louisville ahead of a Kentucky team it had just lost to, and my subsequent explanation in the Mailbag about how it happened, many of you suggested by e-mail that I was falling victim to the very syndrome I gripe about in Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls:Too strict an adherence to preseason perception at the expense of actual, on-field results.
If you feel like a kid on Christmas Eve, I'm with you. The start of college football season is just two days away, but it can't come soon enough. So let's cut to the Heisman chase with the preseason Watch, a list that's dominated by running backs but no one heavy favorite.
Last weekend in Philadelphia, 30 of the top college basketball players in America came to Haverford College in hopes of becoming one of the lucky dozen who will get picked to play for the U.S. at the Pan American Games from July 25-29 in Brazil.
Pac-10 teams were hoping some key nonconference wins last year, particularly on the road, would earn the league a little respect.
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March madness finally came to Sacramento on Saturday. After a mostly sleep-inducing quartet of first-round games in which the margins of victory were 13, 16, 28 and 33 points, respectively, Washington State and Vanderbilt played an edge-of-your-seat double-overtime thriller that featured everything from clutch three-point shooting to game-saving blocked shots. Vanderbilt won it, 78-74, but the real winners were the spectators in Arco Arena who will tell you that they saw the game of the tournament so far.
SACRAMENTO -- Can one play turn an entire game around? Maybe not, but it certainly seemed that way when Washington State forward Kyle Weaver stole an inbounds pass and dunked it just before the halftime buzzer. The bucket reduced Oral Roberts' halftime lead to 28-26, which might not seem like a big deal, but it changed the tenor of the game for Washington State heading into the locker room, which in turn led to the Cougars' 70-54 victory.
Underrated: Texas The fourth-seeded 'Horns are as formidable as all the No. 3s -- and even a couple of No. 2s -- in the bracket. Skinny wunderkind Kevin Durant (25.6 points, 11.3 rebounds per game, unlimited entertainment) strikes fear into the hearts of opposing defenders. Durant will be on a chest-thumping scoring mission in his one-and-done farewell tour; he and freshman point guard D.J. Augustin lead a free-wheeling, Phoenix Suns-style offense that ranks fourth nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency. UT is glaringly inexperienced, starting four freshmen and one sophomore, but the green-Horns play fearlessly, and that's what makes them dangerous.
Ernie Kent's eyes widened as he heard the question being asked.
THE BACKGROUND Overfishing is severely depleting wild ocean-fish stocks and threatening the $158 billion commercial fishing industry. The number of fish caught annually is declining, with a recent ...
In the search for a new No. 1, now that Florida and Wisconsin have fallen, the logical thing to do -- if you subscribe to the Coaches' poll's logic of "bumping" teams up the ranks -- would be to grant the throne to Ohio State. The Buckeyes are the coaches' current No. 1 and the AP's No. 2, yet I have reservations about bumping them up to my top spot.
YOUR NEW ISSUE OF FORTUNE MAGAZINE: It rocks. It rolls. It thrills. It chills. People, this issue is all about private money (honey!) Private equity, hedge funds and the like. Check it out, it's the issue with Steve "The New King of Wall Street" Schwarzman on the cover! Inside is an amazing piece by "Big Swinging" Rik Kirkland on rise of private equity and where we go from here. We also rank the private equity players...and we have a way cool almanac of American wealth. Where the rich people at, kinda deal! And a very cool graphic (thanks Sarah) and story about the ill-fated Airbus A380, (anyone else working on that story?), as well as an exclusive exit-interview with NBC's Bob Wright by Tim 'you the man' Arango! Have fun with this issue, I know I will.
Picking a new No. 1, now that Wisconsin has gone down, isn't easy. There's only one school left in the four highest-rated RPI leagues (ACC, SEC, Pac-10 and Big Ten) that's undefeated in league play -- and that team, Florida, also hasn't lost since Dec. 3. What about the tear North Carolina is on, though? The Heels have won their past five games by an average of 27 points, making an equally strong case.
The heritage of Washington State junior guard Derrick Low can be traced from his left ankle all the way up to his hip.
We've crunched the numbers, pulled out our slide rule and worked the phones ....
It's not easy being green. But for cell-phone companies like Nokia, Motorola, and Palm, the alternative seems to be going into the red.
With the mid-term congressional elections less than four months away, U.S. Senate hopefuls in key races nationwide are keeping pace with -- and sometimes outraising -- their incumbent opponents in the all-important contest for campaign cash, according to fundraising records filed recently with the Federal Election Commission.
If you puff on Marlboros or drive a gas-hungry SUV in Rhode Island or Washington State, you should be feeling a consumption-tax pinch.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - For most of us retirement comes at the end of our career. But for Jeff Martin, 34, retirement from the Army is just over the horizon. Martin is five years away from being able to leave the Army with a pension of half his current monthly income, which today is $4,256.
As forecasts for housing price growth have cooled for most of the country, they are calling for booming values in the state of Washington.
I'm willing to bet that most real estate investors have a blind spot. Call it a prejudice. You focus on buying close to large population centers, big employers and the best schools.
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Every few years, a game comes along that goes out of its way to court controversy.
On Wednesday, February 25, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Locke v. Davey -- a monumentally important ruling.
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Big Beef was doing fine until disease felled a heifer. Will consumer anxiety cripple the industry?
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