Basketball Articles page 6

Seattle Times - Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, on Indiana basketball coach Kelvin Sampson's latest phone foibles costing him a $500,000 raise: "Dude, those are some serious roaming charges." No Joshin' Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett experienced an awkward ...

Seattle Times - He's a former basketball player, so he knows how to position his body. Great hands. Soft-spoken. Doesn't celebrate. Just goes out there and plays ball and does the dirty work. "Today we all saw that he can run good routes and get in the end zone ...

Seattle Times - High-school rewind: Running back/defensive back in football, where he was twice All-KingCo 4A. A guard for Franklin basketball team that made Class 4A semifinals his senior year, and a sprinter in track. After high school: Played football at Eastern ...

Seattle Times - Both lawsuits seek class-action status on behalf of ticket buyers who purchased season tickets between July 2006, when the Oklahoma City-based Professional Basketball Club purchased the Sonics and Storm, and Sept. 21, when chairman Clay Bennett filed ...

Seattle Times - Women's basketball Washington was picked to finish sixth and Washington State 10th in the Pac-10 preseason coaches' poll. Stanford was voted to win the league. Conference honors Seattle Pacific's Jessica Pixler and Saint Martin's John Riak collected GNAC ...

New York Post - No press." Imus is returning to the airwaves at the end of the year after six months in exile for calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team “nappy-headed ho's." The WABC deal is reportedly worth an estimated $5 million to $8 million a ...

Detroit Free Press - Michigan basketball coach John Beilein talked with WDFN-AM last week. On how things are going so far in the program: Well, you don’t know your kids really well until you’ve been with them for really a consistent week of practice. You think you do ...

MSNBC - You love Cinderella during the NCAA basketball tournament, why not in the World Series? Plus, they wear black uniforms with purple numbers. How often do you get to see that in baseball? II: The Red Sox — That loveable team from Boston was even more ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - As for sports, Russert said he was a guard in basketball, "when he was smaller," and a linebacker in football. "It was real exciting. I never met someone on TV before," said 13-year-old Brian Mobley, who added that he especially enjoyed hearing about ...

Philadelphia Daily News - Adams will succeed Hank Nichols as NCAA coordinator of men's basketball officiating at the end of the 2007-08 season. Adams has been coordinator of officials for the Horizon League since 1999. Auto Racing * McLaren confirmed it will appeal FIA's ...