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Greeny and Golic welcome ESPN CBB analyst Bob Valvano (7:00 a.m. ET), ESPN MLB Insider Tim Kurkjian (7:45), CBS Sports' Mateen Cleaves (8:00), ESPN NFL Insider Chris Mortensen (8:30), Heat G Mario Chalmers (9:00) and Kansas coach Bill Self (9:30) to ...

Friday, Doug Gottlieb will welcome ESPN NFL analyst Herm Edwards (10:45 a.m. ET), former Michigan State PG Mateen Cleaves (11:15 a.m.), Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg (11:45 a.m.) and Villanova coach Jay Wright (12:45 p.m.). As always, email the...

Golic and Jay Bilas welcome the NFL Network's Brian Billick (7:15 a.m. ET), CBS Sports' Mateen Cleaves (8:15), Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim (9:00), Michigan State coach Tom Izzo (9:15) and Villanova coach Jay Wright (9:30) to the show on this Friday mo...

Golic and Michael Smith welcome North Carolina coach Roy Williams (7:30 a.m. ET), ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter (7:45), NC State coach Mark Gottfried (8:15), CBS Sports' Mateen Cleaves (8:30), ESPN CBB analyst Bob Knight (9:15) and Kansas coach Bill...

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Mateen Cleaves has been cited for driving with a suspended license.

Does Texas have what it takes to get to the Final Four? Skip Bayless of First Take things so. (Watch above) Meanwhile, Mateen Cleaves thinks the Longhorns will be upset by Oakland in the first round. Watch here....

Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Gentner It only took us 17 seconds to decide that we're crossing our fingers that Huggybear will wear this outfit for the Mountaineer's game against Washington. We can all breathe a sigh of relief: the NCAA Tournament will ...

Mateen Cleaves has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.

Want to sneak something in the Afternoon Links? Follow me on Twitter and send me your stuff. Off we go: Storming The Floor came up with a fantastic idea yesterday. Since SEC commissioner (Who else hears Heath Ledger's Joker snarling "coMISSioner...

Kalin Lucas is Michigan State's best player. He's a lightning fast guard with a versatile game; he can run the floor and shoot and pass and pretty much do everything Tom Izzo asks him to, physically. Which, apparently, is part of the problem. Lucas i...

In his expansive basement, Tom Izzo has a memorabilia room that would send chills down the spine of any Michigan State fan. But there's room on the wall for more. Can the defending runner-up create new memories this season?

Sunup to sundown, basketball is played and preached in Flint, Mich., in places like Ballenger Park and Berston Field House, where household names like Mateen Cleaves, Glen Rice, Jeff Grayer and Justus Thigpen all cut their teeth.