Mike Glover hasn’t played an organized basketball game since early 2007.
So you’ll forgive him if he’s a little excited, and a little nervous, about his team’s upcoming scrimmages Oct. 10.
That’s when Glover and his teammates from the College of Eastern Utah will meet Western Wyoming Community College and an all-star team in two games at [...]

Oak Hill (Va.) Academy small forward Roscoe Smith has cut his list to three schools: Duke, Georgetown and UConn.
Kansas, Florida and UCLA are off his list.
Brian Stephens, Roscoe’s father, said there was no leader.
Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski will have a home visit today (Wednesday). Georgetown coach John Thompson III also comes to Oak Hill today to [...]

NEW YORK — Hal Steinbrenner isn’t nearly as blustery or as brash as his famous father, but he still expects the same thing once October baseball begins.
 
With the Yankees about to enter the postseason for the 14th time in the last 15 seasons, Hal has the same expectations as his old man.
 
“What are our expectations? [...]

A source close to UConn coach Jim Calhoun says the coach is shocked at how long it has taken the school to begin negotiating terms of a new multiyear deal.
“They have not been in a rush to get it done,” the source said, referring to UConn officials.
UConn spokesman Kyle Muncy said Tuesday that the two sides [...]

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — With an eye toward the Summer of LeBron, the Knicks didn’t make any splashy offseason trades or free agent signings.
 
But they did add a healthy 6-foot-10, 225-pound forward who is expected to contribute big minutes and big points to a team hopeful of making the postseason.
“I’m 100 percent, I feel 100 percent,” [...]

Brandon Knight, the top prospect in the nation out of Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Pine Crest, enjoyed his weekend visit to UConn and will visit several other schools before deciding — potentially in the spring.
“He had a good visit,” Pine Crest coach Dave Beckerman said Tuesday by phone before he took off for Italy for two [...]

Fresh off his in-home visit Monday night with Seton Hall head coach Bobby Gonzalez and assistant coaches Derm Player and Scott Adubato, Devon Collier says he will take five official visits.
“The schools I will visit are Providence, Seton Hall, Oregon State, St. John’s and probably Maryland,” the 6-foot-8, 210-pound Collier said Tuesday by phone from St. Anthony.
“I don’t [...]

I checked in this morning with Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick coach Kevin Boyle and he provided the latest news on his star players, Kyrie Irving and Michael Gilchrist.
The 6-foot-2 Irving loved his visit to Duke this past weekend but still plans to take his next scheduled official visit to Texas A&M Oct. 9. After that, Irving is [...]

GREENBURGH, N.Y. – The 2009 Knicks’ season has just begun and already the focus is on 2010.
When the Knicks hosted their annual media day Monday at their Westchester campus, many of the players answered hypothetical questions about the future.
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all become free agents next summer, and the Knicks have [...]

Tobias Harris enjoyed his weekend visit to Syracuse and says he plans to visit all seven of the schools on his list.
Five will be official visits and two will be unofficial.
“It really doesn’t matter,” he said Monday. “Even if they’re unofficial the visits will still be like official visits.
“Even if I take an unofficial I still [...]