NBA Street Cred List
by Nicholas Lozito

There is a court in Harlem where stories are told. There are others in Coney Island, Brooklyn and the Bronx; Chicago, Detroit and Cincinnati; Oakland, Inglewood and Los Angeles. Stories of winners and losers, the shakers and those who got shook, the dunker and the dunkee. The collective [...]

Who Are They?
by Nicholas Lozito

Who are these men? So few of their names ring a bell. Their faces don’t shed any sense of familiarity.

Do the players who dominated the collegiate game yesteryear still exist? Have they found a new hobby? Where can I find them?

The answers to the last three questions, respectively: [...]

College Quotebook – January 15th – 24th
by Nicholas Lozito

Alisa Lewis: Long Socks And Big Smiles

“Can’t you just see her watching over us? I can see her, sitting on that rim, smiling that smile, swinging her legs and just smiling down on us.”
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College Quotebook – January 7th – 14th
by Nicholas Lozito

Leading The Pac

“We’re maturing and learning, and at the same time we’re not losing. A team hits us with something devastating, we don’t panic, we don’t get all bottled up about it. We just come back.”

– UCLA forward T.J. Cummings on [...]

Battle of the Sexes
by Nicholas Lozito

I belong on the basketball court as much as Dick Vitale belongs in a preschool’s napping room.

I’ve stared sheepishly into the eyes of teammates after my man scored eighteen points in a game of 21. I’ve stood flat-footed at the 3-point line as [...]

College Quotebook – December 18th – January 5th
by Nicholas Lozito

A Knight’s Tale

– In an interview with ESPN last week, Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight went off about his relationship with former player and current Iowa coach Steve Alford.

ESPN reporter Fran Fraschilla to Alford, regarding perceived tension between the [...]

College Quotebook – December 11th – December 17th
by Nicholas Lozito

Coach Grieves Loss Of Player

“One of my greatest fears as a coach was realized today. These players are like family to me and to each other. It’s hard to even comprehend how something like this could happen.”

– Columbus State (Georgia) head coach Herbert Greene after [...]

College Quotebook – December 3rd – December 10th
by Nicholas Lozito

Jailhouse Confessions

“When I first got here, they did, they did everybody. I mean, they do A.J. and Rickey. If they need money, they’d go to Harvey. He, he’d get it for ‘em… But it was him first, and I stopped messing [...]

College Quotebook – November 25th – December 2nd
by Nicholas Lozito

“Can I Get A Sub…Anybody?”

“I’m playing with a 5-10 shooting guard and my backup point guard is a midget. Halfway through the game, I went to press row and started asking guys if they had eligibility left.”

- [...]

The Inaugural Basketball Movie Awards
by Nicholas Lozito

Some call me a pathetic man with too much time on his hands. I call myself a basketball movie junkie. Either way, it has become my mission to own every halfway decent basketball movie available on VHS or DVD.

I’m off to a solid start, with “Blue [...]

College Quotebook – November 10th-24th
by Nicholas Lozito

Where’s The Loyalty?

“The landscape has changed and the Conference USA that we have known and loved will no longer exist. We needed to find a new home and the Atlantic 10 was a perfect fit.”

- Charlotte athletic director Judy Rose on the reasoning behind her [...]

Have You Seen My College Star?
by Nicholas Lozito

Ever wonder why your favorite college star is currently passing the ball to a guy whose name you can’t pronounce in a country you’ve never heard of? Or maybe you thought he ventured into a high school coaching career until you caught a glimpse of him mingling [...]

Hoops for Thought
by Nicholas Lozito

Jordan had the tongue wag. D-Miles has the two fist, forehead-tap thingy. McGrady, Iverson and Kobe have the leg sleeve, because you never know when one leg might be colder than the other, right?

We’re talking NBA trademarks, folks, and it sounds like former Syracuse star Carmelo Anthony has cashed in [...]

Hot Town: Hoops in the City
by Nicholas Lozito

It takes a lot to get a hibernating bear out of its cave. Especially if that cave isn’t really a cave, but rather a house, and that house is equipped with Internet and cable television. Oh, and it’s not really a bear, but a lazy college student [...]

Big screen ballin’
by Nicholas Lozito

It’s a sad sight; I’ll admit it. An uncoordinated white kid dribbling a basketball between his legs and behind his back until it caroms off his left knee and knocks over a nearby lamp.

So I’m not the next Hot Sauce. Big Deal. But I’ll bet I’m [...]

The NCAA’s Draft Day Losers
by Nicholas Lozito

If anybody happens to be vacationing in Starkville this summer, please make sure to send my condolences to Mississippi State head coach Rick Stansbury. As a result of early entrees in the 2003 NBA Draft, Stansbury’s basketball program suffered a tremendous blow this off-season, along with many other [...]

Oakland All-Stars give AND 1 Tour a Bumpy Ride
by Nicholas Lozito

Lonnie Harrell stands amongst a small group of reporters in the Oakland Arena’s media room. The 30-year-old forward has paid his dues since graduating from Northeastern University, having spent time in the cities of Huntsville, Tampa Bay and Rapid City, playing for teams named [...]