Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick guard Kyrie Irving will take his official visit to Duke the weekend of Sept. 25 and to Indiana the weekend of Oct. 3.

“I know we’re visiting Duke Sept. 25 and Indiana Oct. 3,” said Drederick Irving, Kyrie’s dad.

Drederick said the following in-home visits are set. He will get back to me with the exact schedule:

Sept. 9 – Duke

Sept. 14 – Indiana

Sept. 15 – Texas A&M

In-homes are also set with Kentucky, UConn and Georgia Tech. Drederick said they were in the process of setting one up with Seton Hall, “probably around the 16th.”

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Long Island wing J.J. Moore has scheduled several in-home visits with Big East schools.

Coaches from Pittsburgh will visit Sept. 10, Providence comes Sept. 11 and Louisville and Marquette arrive on Sept. 12.

The 6-foot-5 Moore will be at South Kent (Conn.) during the visits, so the coaches will meet with his mother, Monique Ballard, New York Panthers coach Gary Charles and mentor Hunt Bresky.

RELEFORD SETS VISITS

Trevor Releford, a 5-11 point guard out of Bishop Miege in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, will visit Oklahoma the weekend of Sept. 12 and Alabama the weekend of Sept. 19, according to his AAU coach, L.J. Goolsby. Releford previously told me Alabama was his leader. (more…)

NEW YORK — Roger Federer’s path to a sixth straight U.S. Open championship could include a semifinal matchup with American Andy Roddick, the man Federer vanquished 16-14 in the fifth set of their dramatic Wimbledon final earlier this summer.

Federer won his 15th Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, surpassing Pete Sampras on the all-time men’s list.

With the U.S. Open set to begin Monday in Flushing Meadows, Federer, 28, the father of five-week old twin girls, is the No. 1 seed and prohibitive favorite. He comes off a victory last week at the ATP tour stop in Cincinnati, where he handled both Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray in straight sets.

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Looks like Thursday was a bad day all around for basketball coaches connected to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

About 12 hours before Rick Pitino held a defiant press conference in which he took aim at the media and Karen Sypher, former Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillispie was arrested and charged with drunken driving.

Here’s the video, courtesy WLEX-18 in Lexington, Kentucky.

Police dispatcher Todd Sparrow said Lawrenceburg police arrested Gillispie and took him to the nearby Franklin County Regional Jail.

WLEX-TV in Lexington reported that Gillispie was pulled over in a white Mercedes with Texas tags around 2:45 a.m. after someone reported seeing the car driving erratically. (more…)

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- With two 1,000-yard receivers gone to the NFL, Rutgers must find playmakers at the wide receiver position heading into the 2009 season.

Kenny Britt was a first-round draft pick of the Tennessee Titans and Tiquan Underwood went to the Jacksonville Jaguars, leaving diminutive senior Tim Brown as the leader at the wideout position.

At 5-foot-8, 165 pounds, Brown doesn’t have the size of a Britt (6-3) or an Underwood (6-1), but he is a playmaker.

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RUTGERS ANNOUNCES KICKOFF TIMES

Kickoff for the Sept. 12 game against Howard is at 3:30 p.m. and the Sept. 19 tilt with Florida International kicks off at  5 p.m.

SNY will televise both games.

The Oct. 10 game with Texas Southern on Homecoming begins at 3:30 p.m.

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Rick Pitino is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore.

The Louisville men’s basketball coach called a news conference Wednesday after Fox affiliate WDRB-41 in Louisville ran video of Karen Sypher’s testimony to the police about her 2003 sexual encounter with Pitino.

Sypher, the wife of Louisville equipment manager and Pitino confidant Tim Sypher, was charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from Pitino, who admitted to having sex with Sypher on a restaurant table and giving her $3,000 to use for an abortion.

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Former Rutgers guard Corey Chandler will decide on Sunday between Binghamton and St. Bonaventure, according to Newark East Side coach Bryant Garvin.

The 6-foot-2 Chander, recently dismissed from the Rutgers team for a violation of team rules, visited Binghamton Tuesday-Thursday this week and will go to St. Bonaventure Saturday.

“He was interested in a couple other schools, but basically thgose schools are closer to Newark as far as him being able to go see his child,” said Garvin, referring to Chandler’s 7-month-old son in Newark.

Asked when Chandler would decide, Garvin said, “Sunday. School’s going to start on Monday.” (more…)

Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino is holding a 3 p.m. press conference.

“Nobody knows what it’s about,” a Louisville reporter told me.

“I do not expect Rick Pitino to resign or temporarily step aside at his 3 p.m. press conference today,” Louisville Courier Journal columnist Rick Bozich tweeted.

Pitino, 56, has been embroiled in a scandal regarding Karen Sypher, the woman whom he admitted to having sex with and then giving her $3,000 for an abortion.

The Courier Journal is live streaming the press conference.

***Hit the Video Player on the right to see the video interview with Doron Lamb, Tobias Harris & Kyrie Irving***

NEW YORK – Doron Lamb made a triumphant return to his hometown and his old AAU gym Friday night.

Lamb scored a game-high 23 points and earned co-MVP honors to lead the Skip to My Lou team to a 133-120 victory over The Goat in the 4th Annual Boost Mobile Elite 24 game at the Gauchos Gym in The Bronx.

The game was originally slated for Harlem’s famed Rucker Park, but rain forced it indoors.

“I think it will be my last game in New York, so I just came out here and played hard for my fans. Everybody in my family was here,” said Lamb, a 6-foot-4 Queens, N.Y. native who is entering his senior season at Mouth of Wilson (Va.) Oak Hill Academy. (more…)

So I was standing next to New York recruiting expert Tom Konchalski at last week’s Boost Mobile game…and I asked him, “If you could start a college basketball team with any of the 24 players in this event, who would it be?”

Tom’s answer wasn’t Jared Sullinger, Kyrie Irving, Tobias Harris or Josh Selby…

“Austin Rivers,” he said.

“First of all, he has a very mature understanding of the game,” Tom said of the 6-foot-3, 175-pound junior out of Winter Park (FL) Winter Park. “He has a very high level of skill. You can just look at him and see how young he is physically. He’s a legitimate 6-4 now, he’ll end up a 6-5 guard and he’s just getting his legs. He’s just growing into his athleticism now.

“A year ago at the City of Palms, he couldn’t dunk the ball on a breakaway. Now he’s doing all sorts of acrobatic dunks. He just has the perfect combination. He understands the game. He has the skill. HE grew up a coach’s son and he’s always been really efficient with the ball. He can shoot the ball. He knows now to create separation. He knows how to get to the basket and knows how to finish. (more…)