The Month of May

BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- You may have noticed that new content from yours truly has been conspicuously absent from the front page of UD Pride for most of this month. Not only is May a notoriously slow time in college hoops, but we’ve had a lot going on at home with the Med School graduation and subsequent wedding of our youngest, Dr. Caitlin Chambers. The combination of those ingredients meant no new “FTS” but now that it’s Memorial Day, let’s kick out the jams!

-- Luke Winn over at SI.com with the three different schools of thought to defending the three-point shot:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...ree/index.html

-- Just to show us all that the NCAA is not being run by a band of total idiots, the Committee is actually moving towards banning those stupid ankle-breaker sponsor stickers on the floor at NCAA Tournament games. It’s about time!

http://rushthecourt.net/2012/05/15/t...its-last-legs/

-- A couple of viewpoints on the perceived rapid rise in the number of transfers -- first from Real GM Basketball:

http://basketball.realgm.com/blog/22...Out_Of_Control

And secondly from The Only Colors:

http://www.theonlycolors.com/2012/5/...-will-not-hold

-- On the flip-side, restrictions on where a kid can transfer to (see: Moore, Willie) will probably not be altered anytime soon:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaa-tr...9492--spt.html

-- Mark Lyons and some kid at WVU are among the 10 Biggest Impact Transfers who will be eligible next year:

http://cnnsi.com/2012/writers/andy_g...ers/index.html

-- Here is a breakdown of who is left on the transfer/recruit market, including Flyer target Jerron Wilbut of Chicago (warning: it’s a slideshow):

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...market/page/13

-- Finally on the transfer front, former CMU star Trey Ziegler has been ruled immediately eligible at Pitt because the Chippewas gave his coach/father “The Ziggy”:

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcspor...y-immediately/

-- The Northstar Basketball Blog Top 100 for the Class of 2013:

http://blog.northstarbball.com/2012/...3-top-100.aspx

-- Frequent A-10 ref Joe DeMayo has hit a rough patch in his family life:

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_...9IA4zla5Qamf2K

-- NBC Sports asks “Is the new early entry deadline working?”

http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcspor...dline-working/

-- With all of the conference realignment going on, the Pac 12 and the Big East seem to be the two leagues that are taking it in the shorts:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...ngs/index.html

-- You know how your doctor always talked about ‘good cholesterol’ and ‘bad cholesterol?’ Yeah, about that:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/he...risk.html?_r=2

-- My old boss Tommy Turner sent me this New York Times article about Sunday morning pickup hoops. He’s been doing this for years with a group of guys in Westchester County, NY and I was lucky enuf to join them a few years back. Gonna try and hoop again with TT in September when I head to the East coast for a trade show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/sp...lbow.html?_r=1

-- With the NBA Playoffs down to the ‘final four’ (and the Celtics being one of them) it’s worth noting that this happened twenty five years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2o7eHArqBc

--I’ve always been a sucker for really bad horror movies. And no one is better at cranking them out than veteran schlockmeister Roger Corman. Behold the awesome power of “Piranhaconda”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUvPa...ayer_embedded#!

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at: swampy@udpride.com