Eric Bledsoe, the No. 3 point guard in the Class of 2009, arrived in Memphis Thursday for his official visit and was overwhelmed by the local media.
Bledsoe will head to Kentucky on Friday and then decide between John Calipari’s old and new programs.
“I’m just looking for the opportunity to play ball and make it to [...]

Renardo Sidney signed with Mississippi State on Thursday.
The 6-foot-11, 250-pound Sidney, a native of Jackson, Miss., is rated the No. 5 power forward in the Class of 2009. He verbally committed to USC in February but never signed a Letter of Intent.
“It’s good to be coming back home,” said Sidney, who averaged 23.4 points and [...]

Oklahoma sophomore forward Blake Griffin, the National Player of the Year and likely No. 1 pick, is among the 103 players listed as early entry candidates for the 2009 NBA draft.
The league announced Thursday that 74 players from U.S. colleges and 29 international players had filed for early entry before the April 26 deadline. The [...]

For 20 years I have played competitive Ultimate Frisbee, and for 20 years people have asked me if I play with dogs or on the beach.
The answers continue to be, “No” and “Sometimes.”
There’s an old expression, “When a ball dreams, it dreams it’s a Frisbee.”

Former St. Patrick of Elizabeth standout Quintrell Thomas has narrowed his choices to UNLV, St. Joe’s and Siena.
The 6-foot-8 Thomas is transferring from Kansas and hopes to have a decision made by mid-May.
He visited St. Joe’s last weekend, heads to UNLV this weekend and then goes to Siena the following weekend.

Eric Bledsoe, the No. 3 point guard in the Class of 2009, will take a step closer to making his college decision this weekend when he visits John Calipari’s old and new programs.
“He’s going to Memphis Thursday and then going to Kentucky Saturday,” said Maurice Ford, Bledsoe’s high school coach at Birmingham (AL) Parker.
Are any [...]

Latavious Williams, the No. 6 power forward in the nation, will announce his college choice Monday during a press conference.
Williams will choose from among Memphis, Georgetown and Kansas State, said his high school coach, Carlos Wilson.
“I’m ready to get it over with,” Williams, a 6-foot-7, 195-pound wing forward, told Jerry Meyer of Rivals.com. “Then I [...]

While UConn coach Jim Calhoun and his staff are left to clean up the mess they made recruiting Nate Miles, Miles is headed to the NBA.
Connecticut newspapers reported that Miles will not be prosecuted on charges of violating a restraining order against his former UConn girlfriend.
With the case behind him, Mike Anthony of the Hartford [...]

Markus Kennedy, a 6-foot-9, 250-pound junior forward from Living Faith Christian Academy (N.J.), will stay home for college.
Kennedy, a Philadelphia native, chose Villanova over West Virginia and Temple during a press conference Wednesday at his school.
“I just loved the coach and the team and everything about the campus,” Kennedy said by phone. “Coach [Jay] [...]

Jio Fontan was denied a release from Fordham during a meeting Tuesday even after promising school officials that he would not attend any Big East schools in the area.
“He was denied,” a source with direct knowledge said.
Fontan met with a Fordham official following another meeting last week that involved his family and an administrative committee.
Still, [...]