Thousand Oaks eighth-grader commits to Kentucky - Los Angeles Times

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Making Life Decisions In Eighth Grade
Published 5/2/2008 by Wrigleyville at wrigleyville23
A California high school basketball player picks Kentucky before he's decided where he'll go to high school.

PM Roundup: 8th Grader Commits to Kentucky
Published 5/2/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... this weekend. No link: Sports Business Daily is reporting that the contracts of Rob Dibble and Rodney Peete weren’t renewed, so if you loved them on the Best Damn Sports Show, tough darts. UPDATE ON THE ASU CHEERLEADERS: ASU cheerleading is not being cut (thankfully), but rather “reassigned” to the director of the Marching Band, whatever that means. (USA Today) Read this, and then take a shower to get the slime off. (LA Times) There are plenty of splendid ideas on blogs. (Royals Review) Why ...

Gillespie Working Extra Hard to for the UK Hounds
Published 5/2/2008 by Norlander at College Hoops Journal
... nice. It’s against NCAA regulations for Gillispie to offer a kid that can’t cook his own dinner a scholarship, but he saw him play in some sort of tournament last weekend and was impressed. (Really? Was this by coincidence or was he attending an eighth-grade basketball tournament searching for future recruits?) Avery’s father talked to the Kentucky coach yesterday and told him, “This is all Mike’s decision.” Right. Thousand Oaks Eighth-Grader Commits to Kentucky {LA Times}

Hello, I would like to recruit your eighth grader
Published 5/9/2008 by Big A at Inside the Hall | An Indiana basketball blog
... | May 9, 2008 jrhigh.jpg Those of you with eighth graders, relax…I’m only kidding. Most of you know by now that Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie took a commitment last week from Michael Avery, an eighth grader from Thousand Oaks, California. And the reaction from around the country has sparked much needed conversation on how out of control this whole recruiting thing has become. As PostmanE pointed out ...

The troubling focus on high school sports
Published 5/23/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Construda) at Construda
... I just finished up writing a story about an area high school that was named to SI.com's top 25 national programs for the 2007-08 season. Conversely, the May 26 issue of the SI named the same school No. 14 in the entire country and No. 1 in Indiana. The story made me recall the recent hoopla encircling an eight grader's commitment to the Kentucky men's basketball program . Before you jump all over UK, remember USC's Tim Floyd ...