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The poll results are nip and tuck, with the “why not talk some football?” crowd slightly ahead.  So we’ll give it a go.  As Mark pointed out, there’s probably not going to be a lot to talk about in the hoops realm until mid-October when practice starts.  And I note that other hoops bloggers are [...]

For now, check out Ground Zero East Lansing’s preview of the Cal game and nontraditional MSU season preview.  A sample from the preview:

Six: Describe your team with a Jimmy Buffett song. No, we’re serious–do it.
Come Monday. Dad had Jimmy Buffett’s Greatest Hits, and that’s about as far as my experiences with Buffett go. I’d rather [...]

This might make me sound like a bit of a fair weather fan, but I have a confession to make: A couple years ago, I basically decoupled myself emotionally from the Michigan State football team.
I still followed the team (although with nowhere near the obsessiveness I follow the basketball team), but I managed to put [...]

Delvon Roe could be cleared to start playing basketball in the next couple weeks according to FoxSports.com’s Jeff Goodman.  If his knees are ready to go, you certainly have to like what he’ll bring to the table:
In the last nine months, Roe has focused on improving the three areas he and others considered weaknesses.
He’s added [...]

One of the Big Ten Wonk’s four dullest topics for a college hoops blog is/was “The historically unprecedented and epochal influence of bloggers.”  Heeding the Wonk’s advice, I have thus far managed to avoid wading into the bloggers-vs.-media debate (which I generally think both sides tend to overplay).
(OK, now I can’t resist.  Short version: What [...]

CBS Sportsline has a well-crafted round-up of offseason basketball events around the conference.  A particularly apt analogy regarding the Hoosiers:
Remember when the original Cleveland Browns skulked out of town to become the Baltimore Ravens, then a few years later the NFL granted Cleveland a brand-new franchise that retained the Browns’ name, colors and history?
That’s essentially [...]