I’m here at St. John’s for the “Summer in the City” event on the last day of the July recruiting period and some big name coaches are still working hard, including Kentucky’s John Calipari, Tennessee’s Bruce Pearl, Seton Hall’s Bobby Gonzalez, St. John’s Norm Roberts, Villanova’s Jay Wright, St. Joe’s Phil Martelli, Iona’s Kevin Willard and [...]

So I’m leaving my house tomorrow at around 9 a.m. for the Summer in the City event at St. John’s. We hear many big-time coaches, including Villanova’s Jay Wright, Tennessee’s Bruce Pearl, Marquette’s Buzz Williams and St. John’s own Norm Roberts will be on hand to check out the talent, including New Y0rk’s own Jayvaughn [...]

Norm Roberts woke up in an Orlando hotel room at 4:15 a.m on Thursday, skipped his daily shave and slept during his 7 a.m. flight to
Kennedy Airport.
Over the past month, the St. John’s coach has been out on a recruiting adventure that took him to Reading, Pa.; Cleveland; Philadelphia; Springfield, Mass.; Augusta, S.C.; Las [...]

Mets GM Omar Minaya says he called Daily News beat writer Adam Rubin and apologized for his bizarre attack on Rubin earlier this week at a press conference.
“The bottom line is I made a mistake,” Minaya said.
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Two players out of Queens who are drawing a lot of attention this summer are Omar Calhoun and Maurice Harkless.
Calhoun is a 6-foot-4 sophomore guard out of Christ the King High School who plays for the Gauchos AAU program (at right in the picture courtesy RealScout.net).
Calhoun averaged about 29 points per game to help the [...]

Here’s the infamous video of former Knick Stephon Marbury listening to gospel music and crying…During the full video, taking in some entertainment room in his house, he reportedly gave shout outs to Knicks GM Donnie Walsh and Anucha Browne Sanders, the Knicks official who won a sexual harassment suit against Isiah Thomas and the Garden. [...]

Villanova guard Reggie Redding was busted by Radnor Township police Tuesday morning with a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to Philly.com.
The 21-year-old Redding was released and issued a summons to appear in court.
Villanova head coach Jay Wright did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

Angel Nunez hasn’t played a minute of AAU ball all summer, yet he still picked up a scholarship offer from UConn head coach Jim Calhoun on Wednesday.
“Calhoun said he’d seen me play twice and both times he had that same feeling he had when he saw Ray Allen and Rip [Hamilton] and them, like ‘This guy [...]

Today’s Nooner is quite clever and covers the Omar Minaya-Adam Rubin Saga and manages to link Brett Favre to one of the funniest movies ever made, “Dazed & Confused.”

The first 12 players have been named for the fourth annual Boost Mobile Elite 24 event slated for Aug. 22 at Harlem’s Rucker Park. The game will be shown live on ESPNU at 7 p.m.
Austin Rivers, Winter Park (Fla.), PG, 2011 — FLORIDA
C.J. Leslie, Word of God (Raleigh, NC), PF, 2010
Harrison Barnes, Ames (Iowa), SG, [...]