Can anyone stop Kansas?

    It is never too early to start the conversation about the 2013-14 college basketball season. The preseason favorite, the Kansas Jayhawks, look to have all the pieces of a championship team for the upcoming season. Signing #1 overall recruit, Canadian forward Andrew Wiggins leads a Jayhawks squad with superb balance an leadership to complement hit superb talent. Among the contenders to knock off Kansas are familiar faces: Kentucky and Duke. Kentucky is back with yet another #1 recruiting class in the nation and will be led by rising stars Andrew and Aaron Harrison as well as Julius Randle. With 5 of the top 10 recruits in the nation coming to Lexington, the Wildcats will be a young contender for the title. Duke is back under Coach K led by #2 overall recruit Jabari Parker, as well as a veteran Duke squad that will be a brutal matchup for any team in the country. One team that could end Kansas' unbelievable streak of 9 straight Big 12 titles is Oklahoma State. Returning guards Marcus Smart and Le'Bryan Nash form the best and most experienced backcourt in the country.  In April, however, we will be watching Mike Kryzyzewski and the Duke Blue Devils cut down the nets in Arlington.

Oklahoma St. Football: Busted

Oklahoma St. Football: Busted

   This past week revealed much about dastardly goings on inside the rising college football program at Oklahoma State University. The Cowboys have been on the rise for the recent few years after having spent many years as a basement-dwelling laughingstock of a program as its in-state archrival, Oklahoma, never faltered from the top of the college football rankings. Alas, Oklahoma State's rise to the top was not what it seemed. Simply, they were cheating.

   

   Under Coaches Les Miles and then later Mike Gundy, it has been reported that players were given illegal benefits in just about every possible way you could dream of. Money was awarded to players who performed well during games, sometimes in excess of $1,000 for any particular game's performance. Even less important players who were not headed to the NFL and were not directly responsible for the team's success or failure were rewarded with hundreds of dollars handed to them for performances on or off the field. All of money given to these so-called student-atheletes is incomprehensibly illegal. In addition to these players being paid against the rules, they were given academic handicaps that were only available to successful football stars at the college. Even worse was the alleged rampant drug use by the football team. Says ex-star linebacker Donnell Williams, "Drugs were everywhere." Coach Les Miles even went as far as to hire a staff of females to show recruits around the school; the women had sex with many of the recruits allegedly. The school will investigate itself and will figure out the next course of action for their troubled football program.