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On November 12th in NYC, Footlocker held a party for members of the media celebrating next week’s Week of Greatness event; the most packed release week of the year for kicks. A wide variety of sneakers hit store shelves and anticipated releases are literally dropping every day.  Besides the open bar, there were screens set [...]

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While the casual hoops fan is focused on traditional Big Ten Conference powers Ohio State, Michigan State, and Indiana again this season, they might be forgetting about another once storied program from the conference that is primed to make a run at the Final Four. Most haven’t really given the Michigan Wolverines much thought ever [...]

A few weeks ago, when prized high school prospect Andrew Wiggins reclassified to the 2013 recruiting class, basketball fans across the nation rejoiced as we now all will get to see the unanimous top rated prospect one year earlier in college. Whether he ultimately chooses Kentucky, Florida State, Florida, Ohio State, or any of the [...]

Back in late April, coach Ben Howland and the UCLA Bruins were fresh off assembling the #1 rated recruiting class in the nation, and had a fighting chance at getting back to the program’s rightful place among the NCAA elite teams. But then came the disappointing news that fellow Top 5 rated recruits Shabazz Muhammed [...]

New York, New York – October 24, 2012 – With the preseason soon concluding, the 2012-2013 NBA Regular Season is filled with a great deal of story lines which the masses are sure to follow. Year in and year out, one of the more popular trending topics happens to be the performance of the NBA’s [...]

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While many college basketball fans are clearly focused on John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats early on this offseason, as the Cats may be in the midst of securing the best recruiting class in history, Bill Self at Kansas is quietly formulating his very own All-Star incoming class for 2013 as well. After a down [...]

It has been since midway through the ’07-’08 season that legendary collegiate coach Bob Knight last coached a minute on an NCAA hardwood. After finishing with a record 902 Division I coaching victories, a mark since broken by Duke University’s Mike Kryzewski, “The General” has since taken his talents to the broadcast booth as an [...]

When it comes to virtually everything involving the Kentucky Wildcats’ prestigious basketball program, it would be an understaitement to say that Big Blue Nation does everything big. That’s especially the case when it comes to their annual Big Blue Madness that signifies the beginning of the hoops season as the event usually features something spectacular [...]