Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale said Wednesday that he has vocal cord cancer and will need six weeks of radiation to treat it. “I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season tips off in the Fall,” Vitale wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. The 84-year-old Hall of Famer […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As the NBA prepares to welcome French centre Victor Wembanyama at the NBA draft on Friday, the NBL has high hopes its Next Stars program will help boost its US audience. Wembanyama is a 223-centimetre big man with a 238cm wingspan that has […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Memphis coach Penny Hardaway has been suspended three games by the NCAA for recruiting violations and violating head coach responsibility rules. An infractions panel announced Wednesday that the violations are tied to two in-home visits in 2021 with a recruit from the high school class of 2023 who […]

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 How do unranked high school prospects become NBA draft candidates? The numbers are not in their favor, but history has shown it will happen. There are many reasons players hit or miss on the draft board. […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian Boomers coach Brian Goorjian has reiterated that NBA All-Star Ben Simmons has an open invitation to attend selection camp on August 1 if he is fit to go. Goorjian dismissed reports that the national team had set deadlines for Simmons to commit […]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A judge denied bail Wednesday for former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles, who is facing a capital murder charge related to a fatal shooting near campus. Tuscaloosa County Circuit Judge Daniel Pruet said at a hearing Wednesday that the bail issue could be revisited later. Miles has pleaded not guilty in the January shooting death of 23-year-old […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Kansas forward Kevin McCullar Jr. has withdrawn his name from the NBA draft and will return to the Jayhawks for his final season, the school announced on Wednesday, likely cementing Kansas as the preseason No. 1 in men’s college basketball. McCullar attended the NBA draft combine, but was […]

West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins is expected to return to the sideline next season in the wake of using an anti-gay slur in a radio interview earlier this week, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The university decision is in the process of being completed Wednesday, and the details have yet to be finalized. Huggins has agreed to a million-dollar […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Bob Huggins, the longtime West Virginia men’s basketball coach, used an anti-gay slur in an interview with a Cincinnati radio station Monday, an incident he later apologized for in a statement. The situation is under review by both the university and its athletic department. During an appearance […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Bob Huggins, the longtime West Virginia men’s basketball coach, apologized on Monday after using an anti-gay slur in an interview with a Cincinnati radio station, and the incident is under review by the university, according to a statement. During an appearance on the Bill Cunningham Show on […]