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Lacrosse has become a global sport, but for the coaching participants in this weekend's Final Four, the heart of the game has a local flavor.

In today's offseason update of Bracketology, Kentucky and Louisville are both No. 1 seeds. In our latest way-too-early Top 25, the Commonwealth rivals are ranked No. 1 and No. 2. Both are uber-talented and led by legendary coaches. So which is a s...

Picking Kansas takes a burden off Andrew Wiggins' back, but the pressure has only begun. Dana O'Neil writes: On his Twitter page, @22wiggins, Andrew Wiggins says that he is "Just a average kid trying to make it." My niece is an average kid. She ha...

Andrew Wiggins made his college decision (Kansas), no doubt a great burden off his back. But in the world we've created, the pressure is far from over for the next greatest thing.

On April 6, Baye Moussa Keita was at the top of the college sports food chain, a member of Syracuse's Final Four team. On April 18, he was sleeping in a cardboard box in the middle of a wind-swept Syracuse quad. Technically, Keita was fulfillin...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The road back is not a short one; it's stretched along a timetable that could reach as long as eight months. Kevin Ware doesn't really see it that way, though. The Louisville player who redefined resilience and optimism during t...

Dana O'Neil did a magnificent job Monday of encapsulating the college basketball season that awaits us six months from now. Eamonn Brennan unveiled his preseason All-American teams Tuesday, and on Wednesday Dave Telep and ESPN.com's recruiting gurus ...

King's Court makes an offseason cameo with the top 10 things to watch for the 2013-14 season, including the new ACC, NCAA tournament sleepers and Louisville going for a second straight national title.

College basketball's incoming freshmen class promises to be one of the best in years. Add that talent to some rising sophomores and upperclassmen, and it's easy to understand why the 2013-14 pre-preseason All-American teams are loaded.

Derby contender Goldencents gives owners, Hall of Fame trainer rare shot at a Derby victory, Dana O'Neil writes

A surprising number of returning stars, a freshman class that's been salivated over for years and a bevy of national title contenders has us already counting down the days until the 2013-14 season.

Top recruits bringing baggage and entourages to college isn't new in today's game, but it's time to find a solution to the problem, writes Dana O'Neil.

The ridiculous thing would have been to go -- to take a media guide-enhanced 6-foot, 165-pound body, toss it into the shark-infested NBA draft waters and pray for the best, when the best looked like the second round. Turns out, though, that Russ S...

C.J. Fair announced that he will return to Syracuse for his senior season, claiming he made his decision not based just on what people told him but on what he believed.

Rutgers did not get its first choice. Rutgers did, however, make the right choice. That the school did not make the right choice before speaks only to the morass that currently exists at the State University of New Jersey, but that is a...

The Rutgers job is a total mess after the way Mike Rice left it. Needed: A calming voice who cares about the school and the program. Enter: Alum Eddie Jordan.