Lots of Bradley news, Valley news, and stuff of interest...

Bradley hosts Texas A&M - Kingsville in an early season game....
The Texas A&M Kingsville site lists their game against Bradley as part of the Hall of Fame Tipoff tournament- as apparently it was originally planned...
http://www.javelinaathletics.com/schedule.cfm?sp=BSKM
http://www.javelinaathletics.com/press_release.cfm?pass_num=1908&spcode=BSKM

Bradley's schedule says its part of the tournament, too-
http://www.bradleybraves.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&KEY=&SPID=1498&SPSID=19332

But something oddball has happened, and maybe the HOF Tourney folks think that's just one too many D-II teams -- so they seem to disavow any connection with Texas A&M-K...
The Hall of Fame Tipoff official site does not even mention Texas A&M Kingsville at all-
http://www.halloffametipoff.com/
Here they list 3 D2 and 2 D3 teams, but not the Javalinas-
http://www.halloffametipoff.com/teams.php
schedule-
http://www.halloffametipoff.com/schedule.php



I just got confirmation from a good independent source, that indeed what we have heard about Jordan Prosser is absolutely true -- that he's still growing and is indeed ALL OF 6-9 and really putting on muscle.
Will Egolf is also now 6-9.5!



Here's a list of all the Valley exhibitions that take place before Bradley's exhibition on Nov. 6...

This Saturday, Oct. 30 - SIU hosts Quincy in their new renovated arena, and Evansville hosts DePauw
Sunday, Oct. 31 - Missouri State plays Upper Iowa
Next Tuesday, Nov. 2 - UNI plays Wartburg & Indiana State plays Rose-Hulman
Next Thursday, Nov. 4 - Creighton hosts Northern State
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16591

Illinois plays Lewis tonight...this should be interesting to see how the Illini freshmen do...
http://illinois.scout.com/2/1016566.html




Some news from sources around the Missouri Valley --

At Indiana State...
Several injuries reported..
Jake Kelly had a collision and hurt his knee -- same knee that was surgically repaired when he tore his ACL, he was being held out of practice
Jake Odum, sprained foot...but has returned to practice
Carl Richard suffered a concussion on the 2nd day of practice, and is being held out and should be ready for the beginning of the season
Myles Walker jammed a finger and sat out a practice

Illinois State - lots of nagging injuries...
Jackie Carmichael & Justin Clark - ankle injuries
Austin Hill - nagging Achilles tendon injury -- he had this same thing last season and missed playing time because of it..
all three have missed practices..
ISU has a closed scrimmage Nov. 6 vs. WIU -- maybe I'll call Mo and get some info ...;)

ISU maybe planning a Red-White scrimmage..pretty short notice, so will they get it done?
http://www.pantagraph.com/app/blogs/main/?p=5575#more-5575

The Des Moines Register is doing a player by player full assessment and this is good coverage!!
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/10/23/bulldogs-101-kurt-alexander-wants-you-to-know-they-play-basketball-in-canada-too/



Allen Iverson has finalized and apparently signed a contract with a Turkish team for $2 million per year -- and Iverson's team will play against Osiris Eldridge's team this coming Christmas day!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-29/allen-iverson-agrees-to-two-year-4-million-contract-with-turkish-team.html



Dana Altman might already be having a flashback to when he bolted to coach Arkansas then quit and went running back to Creighton...
now at Oregon he's had tons of problems already - player departures, scandals involving players, and now this...
At the Pac-10 Media Day -- Dana's Oregon squad is not only picked to finish dead last in the weak Pac-10, but he's further behind the team ahead of him that if he even doubled his vote tally in the poll, he'd still be in LAST PLACE!!!
http://www.katu.com/sports/106147913.html

also - - check out that article and note the new Pac-10 logo...
I think it really sukks.....yukkk



I wish I had the time and money to bid and get this -- it's the set of original rules, hand penned by Dr. James Naismith when he invented & developed the rules.
http://www.mercurynews.com/athletics/ci_16457711?nclick_check=1



Cheating at it's worst -- in the Paralympics (handicapped participants only)...
but the Paralympic basketball team from Spain has been cheating for a full decade, using perfectly healthy players who disguised themselves as and corruptly posed as handicapped people - thus not only cheating and now looking horrible that they're caught, but also having cheated other truly handicapped players from participating!
Only Bruce Pearl would stoop this low!!
http://blogs.bettor.com/Cheating-in-Paralympics-How-the-Spanish-Paralympics-Basketball-team-won-gold-a37434



Speaking of Bruce Pearl -- here's an interesting discussion...
Just who ratted on Pearl?? Remember that Pearl hosted a super-secret bash & Party for recruits at his multimillion dollar mansion in Knoxville, TN...
this was against NCAA rules and in fact violated numerous rules in that the recruits were under just juniors and could NOT be hosted on campus or in home, and they got gobs of impermissible freebies while they were there at Bruce's home.
Anyway -- somehow, the NCAA not only learned of the bash but also had in their possession the picture taken at Bruce's home showing the recruits and the coaches and their wives partying it up...
and of course that's the photo that Bruce lied about saying he didn't know a thing about it and didn't know where it was taken...

Anyway -- the hot topic is...how did the NCAA get the photo, who tipped them off, and who ratted to put the investigators onto Pearl's tail??

recall it was Bruce himself who engineered an elaborate plot to fool recruit Deon Thomas into saying secret things on the phone and Bruce jotted those things down (supposedly) and then ratted on the NCAA to embroil Illinois in the charges of recruiting improprieties 20 years ago...
So is this just cosmic karma?? What goes around, comes around?? So who got the goods on Bruce and had the picture and ratted to NCAA?
I am kinda really surprised the rest of the press and media haven't tried to find out or tried to flush out the guy who turned stoolie on Pearl the way Pearl turned stoolie on Lou Henson & Jimmy Collins & the Illini nation.