basketball
Frosh Coach Suits Up To Play, Entire Staff Fired
Last month, San Gabriel High (Calif.) freshman girls basketball coach, Jannie Han, allegedly suited up and played in a junior varsity game. All coaches on staff, including varsity head coach Manny Flores and JV coach Mark Ho, have been fired for cove...
Florida Teen Dies At Halftime Of Game
Phillip Jackson, 18, a center on the Sandalwood High (Fla.) basketball team, died yesterday after collapsing during halftime of a game against Nease High. Faculty praised Jackson for his focus as he was doing well in academics, playing on the footbal...
Calipari Takes Part In Hoops For Haiti
John Calipari, the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, took part in Hoops for Haiti yesterday in conjunction with the Red Cross, United Way and two local radio stations. The event raised more than $1 million in five hours...
Basketball Coach Makes No Excuses In Losing 65-0
Saying that "shots just weren’t going in," Wrenshall (Minn) High girls basketball coach Michelle Blanchard made no excuses why her squad lost 65-0 last week to Moose Lake-Willow River. MLWR played its junior varsity players for most of the seco...
Time-tested rules for defending screens
Most motion offenses today include a variety of picks (screens) to free the ball or players to the basket. These screens include on-the-ball screens, backscreens, cross-screens and downscreens. The following are effective rules that you can instruct...
Reggie Miller’s ‘Shooting-Off-The-Dribble’ workout
Each player starts with a spin out and catch on the perimeter anywhere from 15 feet to 3 or 4 feet outside the arc using the whole court. The players should use a variety of set ups — catch and rip, jab, catch and lift, shot fake. The player needs...
The Big Cheese
He’s beloved in the Dairy State and revered in the Big Ten but it’s about time Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan receive overdue national recognitionCOACH: You began playing basketball at an early age as your father, Butch, coached youth baseball...
Basketball: Principles for attacking zone defenses
The zone defense remains the scourge of our basketball coaches. Many of them simply rely on superior talent to break all the zone defenses they face. Other coaches use (1) complicated offenses with "rocket-science" theories, (2) the zone def...