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4 hours agoPC announces addition of Bryce Cotton to hoop program
College Hoops Blog | Providence Journal — It's freshman orientation for the next few days at Providence College. That means half of the men's basketball team is now on campus and getting...
September 2, 2010When did Jim Baron morph into Jim Harrick?
College Hoops Blog | Providence Journal — And will Harrick Jr. be teaching in Kingston, as he did at Georgia, where his class became the stuff of academic legend? Looks as...
September 1, 2010Bryce Cotton's prayers answered with full ride to Providence
College Hoops Blog | Providence Journal — The Arizona Daily Star has tracked down the newest Friar, Bryce Cotton. Here is a feature story on the Tucson native....
September 1, 2010Rutgers, St. John's waking up in Big East
College Hoops Blog | Providence Journal — For too many years now, everyone around the Big East has openly wondered just when St. John's would come back to life and if Rutgers...
September 1, 2010Mejia leaves URI; likely headed to Hofstra
College Hoops Blog | Providence Journal — SOUTH KINGSTOWN _ Stevie Mejia, the back-up point-guard for the URI basketball team each of the last two seasons, has decided to leave the program....
August 31, 2010Johnston's Mazzulla arrested on disorderly conduct charge
College Hoops Blog | Providence Journal — By KEVIN McNAMARA In what has become a disturbing trend, Johnston's Joe Mazzulla has had a run-in with police for the third straight year. Mazzulla,...
August 31, 2010Friars land late addition Bryce Cotton
College Hoops Blog | Providence Journal — We just received this email from Chris Klassen, the coach at Palo Verde High in Tucson. He says that Providence College coach Keno Davis...
August 29, 2010PC gets verbal from star Virginia junior
College Hoops Blog | Providence Journal — PROVIDENCE - With an eye towards a better future, Keno Davis has secured a verbal commitment from one of the better rising high school...
August 26, 2010Providence Friars merchandise
- Notre Dame to tunnel through students in opener Notre Dame Blog | Chicago Breaking Sports By Brian HamiltonSOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Those eagerly awaiting to see how Notre Dame first comes out of the tunnel for the beginning of the Brian Kelly Era will find something lacking Saturday afternoon.Specifically: Notre Dame coming out of the tunnel. At least at first.Instead, the Irish will begin a new tradition announced by coach Brian Kelly at the campus pep rally Friday night: The team will walk through Sec. 31 at Notre Dame Stadium -- through the student section -- to take the field for pregame warmups. They'll still burst from the tunnel in the moments before kickoff."We want to do somet...
- Butch Jones' UC era starts in Fresno Cincinnati Enquirer The UC Bearcats, who have won 18 straight regular-season games dating to 2008, are not likely to take Saturday' night's season opener for granted simply because Fresno State plays in the Western Athletic Conference, a non-BCS league, not after the way the Bulldogs pushed around the UC defense last year and nearly pulled off an upset in Cincinnati.
- Panthers see red Pittsburgh Post-Gazette SALT LAKE CITY -- Dion Lewis needed only two words to summarize the Pitt Panthers' 27-24, overtime loss against Utah Thursday night before a hostile crowd of 45,730 of Rice-Eccles Stadium. "Missed opportunities," Lewis said quietly after the game.
- Time Warner Cable Sports will broadcast Saturday's football game between Syracuse and Akron Orange Football Blog | Post-Standard Fans will be able to watch the season opener on television.
- Notre Dame football: Recruit visits few on opening weekend South Bend Tribune SOUTH BEND -- As NBC expands its broadcasting footprint of Notre Dame football games this season to Europe and Asia for the first time, the one thing the new audience won't be gawking at Saturday will be a gaggle of recruits on the ND Stadium sidelines.