Roscoe Smith, a 6-7 small forward out of Oak Hill (Va.) Academy, will visit Duke unofficially Sept. 6, according to his father, Brian Thompson

Thompson said the following schools are recruiting his son and would have in-home visits: UConn, Duke, UCLA, Maryland, Georgetown, Florida and Kentucky.

“I’m going to pick out the school that I’m going to commit to going on the middle of my Oak Hill season,” Roscoe, the No. 31 player in the Rivals150 and the No. 6 SF in the Class of 2010, told me earlier this month at the Boost Mobile event in New York.

He said he transferred to Oak Hill to improve and prepare for college.

“I just wanted to be around great players,” he said. ”I think me going to Oak Hill will step my game up more and get me ready for college life. (more…)

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Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly doesn’t know who will start at quarterback for Rutgers when the two teams meet a week from today (Sept. 7) at Rutgers Stadium.

And he says he doesn’t care, either.

Kelly is preparing his team to face both a pro-style QB like redshirt senior Dom Natale (pictured) or true freshman Tom Savage ...or a running QB like fifth-year redshirt senior Jabu Lovelace.

“We’ve tried to take the name of the quarterback out of the equation and deal with what the quarterbacks do,” Kelly said on Monday’s Big East conference call. (more…)

There isn’t a single Big East football team ranked in the top 25 of The Associated Press or USA Today Coaches’ poll.

But don’t try telling West Virginia coach Bill Stewart that his conference’s teams don’t belong among the elite.

“Our league is the black and blue league,” Stewart said on Monday’s Big East conference call. “We’re tough and physical.

“We’ve won over 75 percent of our games outside of [league] competition. We’re 12-4 in the last 16 bowls. We’ve won three of the last four in BCS games. I’m proud to be in the Big East, honored to coach in the Big East. We carry the Big East banner with pride.”

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Former Rutgers guard Corey Chandler has chosen his new school.

After visiting the school last week, Chandler opted for Binghamton, a school with a reputation for taking controversial and troubled transfers.

“He liked the coaches, they worked the hardest and he enjoyed the visit,” Newark East Side assistant Anthony Tavares said.

“He had a good time and decided this is the place he wanted to go to school,” added a source close to the Binghamton basketball program. “The kid is here on campus. He’ll be in school in the morning [Monday].”

The source added: “We’re going to watch him and try to take care of him and nurture him and get the best out of him.” (more…)

NEW YORK – It has been a dozen years since Serena and Venus Williams first arrived at the U.S. Open as teenagers.

Two young black women from Compton, Calif., their hair woven into white beads that sometimes spilled onto the court, they were unlike anything the staid tennis world had ever seen.

And it has been 10 years since Serena beat the Swiss Miss Martina Hingis to win the first of the sisters’ five titles in Flushing Meadows.

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Tobias Harris, the 6-8 forward from Dix Hills (NY) Half Hollow Hills West, took an unofficial to Maryland this weekend.

“I went unofficially,” he wrote in a text. “My older brother lives in Virginia so I was down with him. It went good.”

Harris is considering a long list of schools and will begin a series of in-home visits in September. Here’s his schedule.

Kentucky – September 9
Time: 7:00pm (more…)

Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano says he won’t release his depth chart until his Monday press conference.

Even then, we may not know whether Dom Natale (pictured) or Tom Savage will start the Sept. 7 opener against Cincinnati because Schiano could choose to list both of them.

”Well, neither of them are captains so I don’t have to tell them until they’re in the tunnel, ‘Hey, you’re the guy.’ ” Schiano told reporters after Saturday’s final practice of camp, according to Keith Sargeant of the Home News Tribune. “I’m only kidding. The guy’s going to know who’s starting. I probably won’t tell you guys. That’s why I probably won’t make it public.”

Schiano has repeatedly said he may use three QBs in the opener — Natale, the fifth-year redshirt senior; Savage, the true freshman; and fifth-year senior Jabu Lovelace, who will operate in the gun-run package that maximizes his running abilities.

“They’ll know soon enough,” Schiano said, referring to Cincinnati’s coaching staff. “The [quarterback] will come trotting out first series – that’s who they got.”

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NEW YORK — Novak Djokovic, the Serbian tennis player ranked No. 4 in the world, made a rather startling statement last week after losing in straight sets to Roger Federer in the finals of the ATP event in Cincinnati.

“Yeah, unfortunately I was born in the wrong era,” Djokovic quipped. “I don’t think this is some kind of curse or something. It’s just the day, you know?”

Yes, we know. It’s the Day of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

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As if Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick wasn’t loaded enough, now the Celtics appear to be on the verge of adding two more impact players in brothers Julian and Chris Washburn, who are moving from Texas to New Jersey.

Julian (a 6-8 senior) and Chris (a 6-7 sophomore) are the sons of troubled former NBA player Chris Washburn.

“They have not enrolled yet in school but they did visit the school,” St. Pat’s coach Kevin Boyle told me the other day. “These kids are thinking about moving up to New Jersey. If that happens, then there’s probably a good chance that they enroll…I’m sure that we will know very shortly.”

If the brothers enroll, they will join a team that already includes wing Michael Gilchrist, the consensus No. 1 player in the Class of 2011, and point guard Kyrie Irving, the No. 9 floor general in the Class of 2010. (more…)

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. -  Dontae Johnson doesn’t keep a calendar or a daily planner with him, but with all the events he’s involved with at the Pennington (N.J.) School, you would think he should.

Johnson, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior, is a captain on both the football and basketball teams. As a safety, he holds more than a dozen Division I scholarship offers in football and said he has narrowed his list to Stanford, NC State, Maryland, UConn and North Carolina.

He will also serve as a hall proctor for the second year in a row, and this year he opted to join the Peer Leadership Program. Oh, and he maintains a 3.7 grade point average, too.

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