UH basketball picks up junior college forward - Honolulu Star-Advertiser Sports Breaking| Top News By Brian McInnis [email protected] May 26, 2016 Updated May 26, 2016 5:55pm The Hawaii basketball team added some much-needed size for next season in 6-foot-8 Gibson Johnson, a power forward out of Salt Lake Community College. Johnson, a sophomore with two years of eligibility … [Read more...]

College football season win totals released in Las Vegas - Sporting News We're 99 days from the college football season, and we've hit another checkpoint in the offseason — the first betting win totals from sports books in Las Vegas, these from the Golden Nugget. Clemson, Florida State, Oklahoma and Tennessee, strangely enough, lead the way at 10 wins each. Alabama, LSU and Michigan are next at … [Read more...]

Five-star center Marques Bolden picks Duke over Kentucky - ESPN 4:01 PM ET Paul BiancardiBasketball Recruiting Close National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State print Mike Krzyzewski's loaded No. 2-ranked 2016 recruiting class just got better. In a news conference held Thursday … [Read more...]

Timberwolves' Thibodeau hopes to get top-two pick in draft lottery - TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press New Minnesota Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau already felt fortunate to take over a team with the last two No. 1 picks, Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns, on the roster. Will Towns bring him more luck representing Minnesota at the 2016 NBA draft lottery drawing Tuesday night in New York? … [Read more...]

Terps' draft stocks go in different directions after NBA combine - Baltimore Sun The four Maryland players who attended the 2016 NBA Combine in Chicago – along with senior guard Rasheed Sulaimon, who was not invited – will now begin the most important of the draft process when they start working out privately for teams. The combine ended Saturday. Here is a look at where the five Terps … [Read more...]

In the region: Basketball player Alexander-Walker picks Virginia Tech - Roanoke Times Guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker of Hamilton Heights Christian Academy in Chattanooga, Tennessee, verbally committed Thursday to play basketball for Virginia Tech. He still has one more year of high school. Subscription Required An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an … [Read more...]

NCAA football: 1st-round picks boost OSU's cachet on recruiting trail - Salt Lake Tribune Columbus, Ohio • Thursday night was good for Ohio State, not only for five of its former players who soon will be rich, but also for its coaches who are trying to sell the program to elite recruits. Ohio State tied a previous school record with a quintet of players selected in the first round. The … [Read more...]

FSU ties college football's winningest program in first-round NFL Draft picks - Tomahawk Nation Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports The garnet and gold pull even with the maize and blue. The NCAA recognizes its first college football national champions all the way back in 1869, a year in which Princeton and Rutgers share the title. Ten years thereafter, the University of Michigan began … [Read more...]

Which college football program is the NFL Draft's real Bust U? - SB Nation Tom Pennington/Getty Images Let's look at every first-rounder from 1990 onward to see whose top players pan out least and most frequently. College football programs and their fans LOVE to argue about who's superior at producing defensive backs or tight ends or linebackers. Someone's probably arguing on Twitter right … [Read more...]

The Top 25 1st-Round Picks If College Football Held a 2016 Draft - Bleacher Report Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesClemson QB Deshaun Watson With spring football almost completely over and draft talk taking over the week, this is the time of the year when college football takes a backseat to the NFL—even for the most diehard college fans. The NFL draft can be quite entertaining and perhaps a … [Read more...]