• Candidates named for Big Ten officials coordinator - Mike DeCourcy - College Basketball - Sporting News
  Ed Hightower is among the candidates.  I agree with Bob Baptist: Give him the job, if only to get him off the basketball court.
• Hummel satisfied with bronze medal :: Sports :: Post-Tribune
  Bo Ryan and co. defeated by the dastardly Russians.
• Gray, Walton enjoy opportunity to learn | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
  Marquise and Travis getting some practice time as they look to pursue professional basketball careers.
• Hey, Joe: The best games
  Latest in Rexrode's series of top ten lists.  Has there evern been a better overall year for Spartan athletics in terms of pure excitement?
• Could Spartans have all-Ohio OL class? | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press
  Only one more offensive line commitment this year?
• In Defense Of: Andre Rison - It's Just Sports
  Andre Rison: Crazy, but also a pretty darn good NFL wide receiver.

Not a lot of news this week.  Things should pick up in the next couple weeks as the start of football practice approaches.  LVS and Pete will be doing position-by-position previews of the football team.  (And I will be looking to close out my player-by-player review of the 2008-2009 basketball season within four months of the season ending.)

*We're still looking for a snappier title for these news roundup posts (e.g., Nitt Picks, Unverified Voracity, etc.).  We'd come up with "Watch the Links Keep Growing" previously, but that's kind of wordy to be able to attach a pithy verb phrase to.  Anyone who dreams up a winning idea will win . . . the gratitude of three bloggers.