05.04.08 Fast Breaks

Vegas Watch found this 5/5/2008 on rushthecourt.wordpress.com [flag]

Weekend kibbles n’ bits… Bruce Pearl booted UT guard Ramar Smith and forward Duke Crews off the team, reportedly for failing drug tests . New Hoosier head man Tom Crean refused to allow Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis back onto the team, while kicking DeAndre Thomas off the squad as well. This all occurred one day after the bizarre transfer of Eli Holman, leaving Indiana ... [link]

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Contract Years
Published 5/5/2008 by Vegas Watch at Vegas Watch
... ISO (.222) are way above his career averages. There's no way the BABiP stays that high- he's been between .298 and .350 each year of his career. The ISO is impressive though, and it's not only a product of an increased HR/FB%, since he has 12 doubles and 4 triples. He won't keep this up, but this winter's contract should look similar to the 3/39 the Dodgers gave him after 2005. *Stats include Sunday's game; everybody else's are through Saturday. (By the way, Macklin is transferring to Florida.) Photo: ESPN.

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Bobby Maze commits to Tennessee

Posted 5/8/2008 on VolNation

Junior College point guard Bobby Maze has verbally committed to play basketball at Tennessee next season. This comes after Ramar Smith and Duke Crews were dismissed from the team just last week. How big of an immediate need was the point guard position for Tennessee? Huge. True freshman Daniel West and J.P. Prince would have likely been options one and two for Tennessee prior to ...

Brittany Jackson waived

Posted 5/6/2008 on VolNation

That’s right, today’s blog post is about a former Lady Vol basketball player. Why? I’m not sure any Lady Vol aside from Candace Parker has ever been the recipient of as much message board and blog chatter as Brittany Jackson [a quick search of the Volnation forums returned 92 threads]. The Brittany bandwagon was starting to stir again this week as VolNationals learned ...

Monday Links

Posted 5/5/2008 on UM Hoops.com

Is today the day? Lacy thinks this might be Ekpe’s decision day. Source: Tennessee’s Pearl dismisses Crews, Smith for failed drug tests Can we stop asking why Tommy Amaker did not recruit Ramar Smith? Bassett, Ellis, Thomas, Holman all leaving Hoosier program Indiana is down to 3 returning scholarship players… Freeman gets the hint, will transfer from Iowa ...