http://www.chreport.com Complete Coverage and Analysis of Everything Basketball @ www.chreport.com Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:49:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nothing makes you feel the impending arrival of a new basketball season like the appearance of preview magazines on the newsstand racks.   There's a little rush I seeing each new one slowly find it's way to the store. So far I've gotten the college basketball editions of Athlon, Lindy's, Sporting News, ... http://www.chreport.com/?p=85 The draft lottery went down tonight and I immediately found myself missing Dan Patrick's presence as the lead commentator.   While he was never an NBA guy per se, he lent a certain level of cred to the event. I respect what ESPN is trying to do with Doris Burke but some ... http://www.chreport.com/?p=82 The seemingly obvious sacking of Avery Johnson as head coach of the Dallas Mavericks earlier today was nonetheless still shocking. With any coach, there reaches a point where absent tangible championship results (and sometimes even with) when the players begin tuning you out.  It had reached that point with the Mavericks ... http://www.chreport.com/?p=80 This week I'll be revisiting something I started last year by reviewing the bulk of the preseason college basketball magazines that proliferate the newsstands. I thought before publishing my first review of the new batch I would lay out a manifesto of sorts on what makes the perfect preview ... http://www.chreport.com/?p=79 Site's been in hibernation during the offseason..but with tipoff around the corner the site will be undergoing a change as well.  Before then however, we'll begin with some reviews of preseason basketball mags beginning tonight. http://www.chreport.com/?p=78 Momentum is picking up in the Pacific Northwest for a potential new Sonics arena that would be located on land owned and built by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.   SonicsCentral first reported on it here and this afternoon the Puget Sound Business Journal released a story about the feasibility study run ... http://www.chreport.com/?p=77 Great article out of the Orlando Sentinel focusing on the Billy Donovan situation.  The Magic are a class organization and I'm in total agreement with their insistence that Billy Donovan must be the one to break the deal if he wants out. http://www.chreport.com/?p=76 While Kobe Bryant's flip-flopping trade demand saga has been a walking wet dream for ESPN and wanna-be GM's, I see no chance he'll be playing anywhere else but LA.   He knows LA is the market for him and Bryant is just exercising is own power of influence to shake things ... http://www.chreport.com/?p=75 Great story from The Hoya (Georgetown's student newspaper) about the halftime shoes switch the Hoyas made against Vanderbilt (when they were down 32-24). The new shoes (Jordan XX2's in Gtown blue and grey) look tight but superstition is superstition and the Hoyas went back to what had brought them that far. http://www.chreport.com/?p=73 Just the winners here: Memphis Nevada Arizona Florida Notre Dame Oregon Texas USC Georgia Tech Wisconsin Kansas Villanova Virginia Tennessee Virginia Tech Southern Illinois http://www.chreport.com/?p=72