Some obscure but interesting news items

I'm sure you saw where another player from the Canarias Basketball Academy had signed with an American Division I school--
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15974

..but actually it isn't ONE more player -- it's TWO more Canarias Basketball Academy players!!

--Aaron Geramipoor, a Brit playing in the Canaries signed with Seton Hall -- he'll be playing with another CBA kid, Patrick Auda, who had signed a month ago..
http://www.shupirates.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=52789&SPID=5500&DB_OEM_ID=12600&ATCLID=204967933

--the second kid this week who signed to play D-I is Danny James, who just signed with Monmouth after considering several mid-majors...
http://www.hoopsfix.com/2010/07/daniel-james-commits-to-monmouth/
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:sohT0UD4YskJ:www.europeanprospects.com/information-database/ncaa-recruiting-europe-based-played/+%22danny+James%22+and+%22monmouth%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

That brings the number to 25 - the total of Canarias Basketball Academy players who have signed with D-I's over just the last two years....and eight who have signed within just the past few months!!!
EVERY ONE has had absolutely NO trouble clearing the NCAA and getting eligibility, except, of course, the one kid going to Bradley...
somehow his academics at CBA are being stalled by NCAA.
I know what I believe on this topic...you make up your own mind whether there appears to be overwhelming evidence that some schools are clearly treated differently when trying to get action from the NCAA...and time, and time, and time again it is clear Bradley is treated differently.

I suppose you recall how hard NCAA slammed BU when a few bucks of inadvertent overpay were voluntarily revealed by Bradley - yet Kansas (who lied and did their best to hide facts) at the same time had TENS of thousands of dollars of willful cash gifts given to Darnell Jackson and JR Giddens, yet Kansas got a substantially lesser penalty even though the institution was still on probation from violations earlier in the decade.


Illinois" and Peoria Notre Dame's Brian Randle signs with a new team in Israel...after helping his last team to their championship.
http://www.sportando.net/eng/europe/israel/11036/hapoel_migdal_adds_brian_randle_and_moshe_mizrahi.html

Here are some recruiting articles and a little about the Central Shootout which is being held at Woodruff this year since Woodruff is air conditioned and Central, ahem, is not...
Central, Manual, Notre Dame, and several other good teams are there...
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=186910#post186910

Osiris Eldridge and Dinma Odiakosa are both on NBA summer teams....OE with Portland and Dinma with Memphis..
BUT -- neither is getting to play much at all..
In the three games since Eldridge has joined Portland, he has not played even one second....
So-- you gotta wonder why they'd fly him all the way there to Las Vegas just to sit the bench, then announce he's signing with some horribly obscure team in the boondocks of Turkey!
Dinma is only getting a few minutes a game, but less & less as time goes on and it is clear he is not likely to stay on an NBA roster and/or to play at this level.
He really cannot score, but he even seems to have trouble grabbing more than a rebound or two.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=186900#post186900


Very few teams nationally have released their schedules...pretty much only the lower midmajors like Lipscomb, etc..
I guess that's because most decent midmajors are still trying to get games, because nobody wants to play them...
it is a coordinated plan for the big boys to keep the better mid-majors from getting NCAA bids...because if the top teams just decline to play them, then they'll never have much of a resume and the NCAA selection committee can always use that bogus "eye test" to prove they don't deserve a bid...
Bradley has figured a way out by at least trying to work on facing the top teams even if you have to go on the road to do it!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15777


An Indiana Hoosier in the news ...but not in a good way -- he's a Bobby Knight "disciple"..
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/13645805


A daughter of UK player hits the news also....
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/kss_driver-charged-with-dui-after-crashing-through-kohl-s-police-suspect-drugs-may-have-been-a-factor-1045532.html


Speaking of arrests, drugs, alcohol, DUI's...
How come Tennessee seems only NOW to actually be serious about all the same problems they have been having there? Or does this story really only cover the football program...they really don't mention Bruce and the basketball players and all their drug related arrests..
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5380858


Rumor beginning to swirl that NCAA is looking into some possible inappropriate gifts given to players at Kansas State....more later on this subject...


Mizzou revises their recruiting strategy -- seems they really only want to go for junior college transfers...
time will tell if it pays off..but they have a long, long way to go before they steal away the title of "Juco U" from Illinois State, SIU, and Creighton!!
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/jul/14/mu-keeps-an-eye-on-jucos-despite-decline/


Did you see where the city of Indianapolis is gonna pay more than $30 million to the Pacers just to stay in Indianapolis??
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=15964

But...with talk of an NBA lockout, if the 2010-2011 season does not materialize, then the Pacers owe $10 million back to the city just for that one season.
http://www.theindychannel.com/sports/24275193/detail.html
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/jul/14/vols-dooley-vows-to-change-culture-of-program/


BTW -- here's how the Pacers are looking at fattening their wallets...
they're talking of selling or dumping their talent...
Now the talk is Danny Granger to the Hornets??
http://www.hornets247.com/blog/2010/07/15/danny-granger-to-new-orleans-an-intriguing-possibility

The Pacers were also talking to the Nets about Granger
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/playerbreakingnews.asp?sport=NBA&id=1137&line=137040&spln=1

Their new top draft pick is an almost identical player to Danny Granger...
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2010-06-25-3198097519_x.htm


Did you read where Patrick O'Bryant went head to head against DeMarcus Cousins in the Summer League...
POB didn't fare too well, but other defenders have done worse...so I think POB did OK.
Anyway - the biggest news was that POB was playing Cousins well and tough in one stretch and DeMarcus Cousins (never known for his mellow temper) turned and jawed into POB's face and picked up a technical!


Here's a new, long article on Chasson Randle....
Bradley was one of the kid's favorites early on, but he's really blown up...
sounds like he's leaning towards Illinois...
http://illinois.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1103125

Here are a few clips...
"Four star hoops recruit Chasson Randle is back with the Illinois Wolves this week after playing in Germany with the USA U17 team in their Gold Medal performance at the FIBA games last week.
"It was a great being with the USA team again and winning the gold medal," Randle said. "It was an amazing experience for me and my family."

Last year, Randle won the Gold with this group down in Argentina...
Randle is now back with his Illinois Wolves team, and started off the tournament with a bang, scoring the game tying basket and scoring 21 points in a game on Wednesday despite some travel weary legs.
Randle now wants to begin to focus on his recruitment ...trimming his list down and naming a final group of schools.
... "Purdue and the Illini and Stanford..."
Randle said that he wants to have a decision before the high school season starts so that he can sign in November."