Kansas State landed this top recruit last year while Bob Huggins was still coaching for the Wildcats. Huggy Bear has since moved on to coach West Virginia, but Michael Beasley followed through with his commitment to stay and play basketball for K State. Beasley is already turning heads by dropping 32 and 30 in his first two games against Sacramento St. and Pittsburg St. I highly suggest you watch this kid every chance you get because he won’t be playing college basketball next year. There is a strong possibility this 6-9 forward could follow in the foot steps of Kevin Durant from last year by attaining National Player of the Year in his freshman year.

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Buffalo covers +17 against UConn
Oklahoma covers -16 against San Francisco

Overall Record:

NFL 36-17-3
College Football: 23-28
College Basketball 53-37-3
NBA 6-5
MLB 7-1

I am so happy for my Runnin’ Bulldogs today. Gardner-Webb was in Lexington last night for the regional final of the Coaches vs Cancer Classic and were 25 point underdogs to the Wildcats. Well, the school I played for in ’95 and ’96 stepped up and bitch slapped Kentucky hard. Gardner-Webb won 84-68 which was a shock to say the least and nonetheless it was Billy Gillespie’s (new Kentucky coach) birthday! Not the best birthday present especially when the home crowd is booing you and the team while you are getting spanked. I can assure you the boys from the Bluegrass state will be practicing until they puke in the coming days after allowing this debacle to happen. Garnder-Webb will now play in New York City next week in Madison Square Garden against Connecticut more than likely. Go G-Dubb!

It’s under two weeks until the college basketball season kicks off which means we need to talk some hoops. I’m not sure about you, but I can’t wait for Memphis vs Tennessee-Martin (I wonder what the line will be in this gam?) and Maine vs Richmond on November 5th. Here is our preseason Top 5 college basketball poll and if you have feedback don’t forget to register and tell us what you think!

1 – UCLA – The Bruins have made the Final Four the last two years and this year should be no different with all the fire power they bring back. UCLA returns Darren Collison, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Josh Shipp, Michael Roll, Alfred Aboya and Lorenzo Mata-Real. They also welcome Parade, Gatorade, McDonald’s, you f##in name it high school player of the year Kevin Love. Look for Ben Howland to lead this extremely talented team to the promise land even without the leading scorer from the last two years Aaron Afflalo.

2 – UNC – Roy Williams lost Brandan Wright to the NBA lottery last year, but this team has boat loads of talent coming back. Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington are the three main guns with Hansbrough up for a national player of the year award. The Heels will win the ACC this year if role players like Marcus Ginyard and Danny Green step up their games up in conjunction with a solid contribution from freshman star William Graves. ACC should be in the bag and a Final Four is very possible for the boys in baby blue.

3 – Kansas – Rock Chalk Jayhawk will be ring loud and clear this year in Lawrence, Kansas with all-everything Brandon Rush leading the way. Mario Chalmers, Russell Robinson and Sasha Kaun are the other returning starters from last year with only Julius Wright jumping to the big pond from an Elite Eight team just last year. Bill Self also has new addition 6-11 center Cole Adrich who should provide some help down low. If Rush stays focused the ceiling is the limit for this team.

4 – Memphis – John Calipari has decided for now Memphis is home and he has turned this University into a national college basketball powerhouse. They return 5 of their top 6 players from last year’s squad and the Tigers have made the Elite Eight in back-to-back seasons. Don’t forget Memphis has the best point guard recruit in the nation Derrick Rose along with another star freshman in Justin Robinson. The schedule is in their favor due to home or neutral court games against Tennessee, Georgetown, Arizona, Gonzaga and Southern California with no road games harder than UAB. Look out!

5 – Louisville – We are leaving Georgetown out of our top five simply for the fact Jeff Green is gone and that means Lousiville will win the Big East. The Cardinals return 7 of their top 8 and are lead by one of the best coaches in the land in Rick Pitino. Terrence Williams, Edgar Sosa, David Padgett, Juan Palacios, and Derrick Caracter are the big guns and I’m sure they want to avenge their 1 point loss in the round of 32 last year against Texas A&M.