Recent Basketball Articles page 8

Baltimore Sun - Faculty and staff at the 830-acre Pepperdine campus had been urged to evacuate in the morning, and students were instructed to gather in the school's cafeteria and basketball arena. But by early afternoon, the campus was "secure," Freeman said. Flames ...

Baltimore Sun - When asked about the coming Atlantic Coast Conference basketball season, Clemson coach Oliver Purnell said exactly what this year's media poll predicted before it was released yesterday: "North Carolina and the rest of us." The Tar Heels were ...

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 ...

Baltimore Sun - But, Anderson said at Thursday's Patriot League basketball media day at the sports bar, there's no need to go that far until recent meetings among black athletic directors, NCAA officials (such as president Myles Brand) and other college sports ...

Newsday - Isiah may not have a team that makes much basketball sense, but he's cornered the market on assets that the Lakers could use to prepare for a major free-agent score: decent young players on rookie contracts; players whose contracts expire by 2010 ...

Seattle Times - In the meantime, a selfish owner of a basketball team tries to hold the city hostage to build a new sports venue. Is this really the way we need to spend our money on things so trivial? Living in Seattle for the past 60 years, I never thought we ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - All we could do was show up and play basketball, like we always do." Thomas was put on notice by Cablevision chair James Dolan after the team fired Larry Brown and Dolan insisted Thomas come down from his team president position and coach. Dolan said ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - One of the five teenagers had asked him to "give it up," referring to the basketball jersey he was wearing. The real motive was a girl, and someone feeling disrespected, but the case went down in the city crime annals as "the shooting over the Allen ...

Detroit Free Press - It was a big play and my basketball coach, Coach (Steve) Hall, always tells me, 'Big-time players make big-time plays,' " said Northwestern linebacker Kason Dickerson, who made the key stop. "My kicker was struggling," Hunt said of his team's ...