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 [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]