Some obscure news items relevant to Bradley

Geno Ford is going to toss out the first pitch at the Chicago Cubs game against Cincinnati this Sunday -- and Geno's high school alma mater is proud of the event!
http://members2.boardhost.com/CatTales/msg/1312427847.html



Michigan's head coach John Beilein has his own web page and has a new entry up about their non-conference schedule this coming season...
Beilein says this...
"DEC. 22 — BRADLEY
Several days before Christmas, the Wolverines will play host to first-year head coach Geno Ford’s Bradley Braves. The game will feature a pair of Beileins as Coach B’s son Patrick is on staff at Bradley, serving as the director of basketball operations after spending last season as an assistant coach at Dartmouth. Last season, BU finished 12-20 overall and 4-14 in the Missouri Valley."

Also -
"NOV. 17 — WESTERN ILLINOIS
A member of the Summit League, the Leathernecks ended 2011 with a record of 7-23 under third-year head coach Jim Molinari."
http://johnbeilein.com/site/?p=1809


One Sacramento Kings blogger has this blog entry to kill the time while the lockout progresses...

"How I Spent the Lockout..."
"Jim Les was the Kings first real 3-point threat. Remember, the 3-pointer did not really come into vogue until the early 90's, and Les shot almost 42% from beyond the arc during his four year stay in Sacramento. He was a little too small and too slow to log big minutes, but as a distance shooting marksman, he really introduced the beauty of the 3-ball to Kings fans."
http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2011/8/3/2310102/jersey-sure-or-how-i-spent-the-lockout-of-2011-episode-no-8



Darius Paul -- Gurnee Warren -- brother of Illini's Brandon Paul is visiting Bradley tomorrow, Friday.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=234131#post234131

Manual's AJ Riley gets an offer from Bradley - making two members of this current Manual team with BU offers (also Jeff White).

Bradley also just offered a 2012 point guard from junior college. Harris was also being recruited by BU before he went to juco.
http://blogs.pjstar.com/pressrow/2011/08/04/highly-ranked-juco-point-guard-to-visit-bu/


Missouri State is also hosting a point guard prospect -- a fairly obscure kid Christian Roderick...
http://twitter.com/#!/Christian0128/status/99234520036933632

...but here's the interesting twist -- on Roderick's twitter account he appears to be debating back and forth with some other kid what it means to have your scholarship "janked"...he must be reading about happenings at ISU!!
http://twitter.com/#!/Christian0128/status/92798611045351424


Dodie Dunson's brother Brandon Dunson is transferring to Azusa Pacific to play next season - but APU is moving from NAIA to D-II -- nice...
http://www.universityloveconnection.com/blog/azusa-pacific-university-athletics-to-move-up-to-ncaa-division-ii.php


NCAA head is basically saying the athletes are going to get $$ in the future...
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/07/ncaa-president-mark-emmert-big-ten-conference-commissioner-jim-delany-sec-commissioner-mike-slive/1


Shaquille O'Neal named in an ugly lawsuit...
"Lawsuit claims Shaquille O’Neal planted software in his ex-wife’s car to track her"
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Ugh-Lawsuit-claims-Shaquille-O-Neal-planted-sof?urn=nba-wp7175