Words have consequences. If that's a lesson from kindergarten you had forgotten at some point between then and now, we got a reminder this week.Before the Pac-12 tournament, the conference's head of officiating, Ed Rush, told his crew of refs that ...

At the 10:30 mark of the UNC-Kansas game last weekend, with UNC up 14-6, I thought to myself: I'm watching a pickup game in a really nice stadium.There was one summer, many years ago when I lived in New York, when all I did was watch pickup games. ...

'Twas Sunday, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, a few hours after the lines for the NCAA tournament had opened, and all through the night, most wiseguys were not stirring. Outside Chicago, Sal Selvaggio from Madduxsports.com saw the spreads ...

It was 1:35 on Thursday afternoon. At that moment, I was still getting questions about Iona's bad beat on Monday, still collecting sob stories of folks who had the Gaels minus-4.It will come as no surprise to anyone that I am not the sharpest knife ...

The other night, my older son grabbed a deck of cards and said, "Hey, Dad, how do you play poker?" He's 9.I used to play regularly with friends when we lived in New Jersey, but I haven't picked up a game since we moved to Connecticut a couple of ...

In the week since the Miami Hurricanes debuted atop the Sweat Barometer that I work up with Sal Selvaggio of madduxsports.com, they have: racked up three wins (at Florida State, at Clemson and at home versus a very dangerous Virginia team); come ...

A few years ago, I was in Las Vegas for a reporting trip. It was a Tuesday afternoon in the middle of college basketball season, post-Super Bowl. Ed Salmons and Jeff Sherman, bookmakers at the Las Vegas Hotel, were standing behind their sports ...