BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — Let’s get ready to rumble:

— College Chalk Talk’s Secondary Break blog hits the “Flyer Trifecta” with a look at the Red and Blue before and after the Charlotte game; then Derrick Dukes checks in with a Pre-Duquesne report, otherwise known as “Dukes on Dukes”:

Pre-Charlotte: The hardest team in the A-10 to figure out

http://secondarybreak.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/dayton-the-hardest-team-in-the-a-10-to-figure-out/

Post-Charlotte: Flying High

http://secondarybreak.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/flying-high/

Pre-Dukes: UD’s Final Push Continues with Duquesne

http://secondarybreak.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/uds-final-push-continues-with-duquesne/

— BG can scratch 2012 Brewster Academy big man Mitch McGary off his potential recruits list:

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/high-school/post/_/id/4918/brewsters-mcgary-names-favorites

— But BG has added the name of Indianapolis Cathedral (IN) HS Jared Drew to UD’s Class of 2012 list of prospects:

— You gotta figure that if this article been written last year, former Flyers Rob Lowery and London Warren would have both made the list:

http://www.ballinisahabit.net/2011/02/90-of-basketball-is-flow-inside-look-at.html

Well, next season UD recruit LaDontae “Buckets” Henton and his killer dreads will be a definite contender.

— TSN Mike with a piece on Jim Larranaga and the GMU Patriots who, it must be noted, suffered one of their five losses at UD Arena:

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2011-02-17/just-accept-that-this-george-mason-team-is-great-too

— The Wall Street Journal hits us with a couple of decent college hoops pieces:

“How Texas basketball rose from the dust”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704409004576146554067242860.html

“Maybe DePaul is in the wrong conference”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703373404576148511816362614.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Sports_RightTopCarousel_1

This was written the day before OP and the Blue Demons beat Providence, in what was reported to be one of the ugliest college basketball games ever played. Hey, a win is a win, right Coach?

— Orlando’s JJ Reddick is leading the NBA in getting his ankles broken on defense, much to the amusement of his teammates:

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_magic/2011/02/j-j-redick-falls-down-video.html

— I’m one-quarter Irish so it pains me greatly to learn that the Emerald Isle is totally bankrupt. “Moneyball” and “Liar’s Poker” author Michael Lewis provides the gory financial details in this in-depth piece from Vanity Fair:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103

And Americans think the housing crisis is FUBAR here in the US?

— Finally, the most illegal thing ever in the history of wrestling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU4TDGlbTz8

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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