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The Louisville coach believes that a large number of NBA hoopers (to say nothing of guys coming out of college) will be strapped for cash heading into next season’s possible lockout, and will need to earn a paycheck somewhere, anywhere. ZagsBlog reports: “I do think there are a lot of guys in the NBA who have made a lot of money, but have not invested wisely,’ Pitino said Wednesday by phone. ‘So if they think the lockout’s long, they’re going to try to get Greece, Italy and Spain as quickly as they can.’ Pitino said he advised Louisville junior power forward Terrence Jennings, a borderline second-round NBA Draft pick, to take the first European deal he is offered. ‘I gave him all the information and said to him, ‘You’re probably, if you have good workouts, going to get drafted in the second round,’ Pitino said. ‘That being said, you must understand that the first deal that comes across from Europe, you need to take because a lot of these pro guys are very good and they’re going to need money and they’re going to have to go to Europe because of the lockout.’ The current collective bargaining agreement expires June 30, and if the two sides cannot agree on a new deal the NBA could be headed for an extended lockout. Pitino cited a Toronto Star story from within the past few years that said 65 percent of first-round NBA Draft picks within the past 15 years are currently bankrupt. ‘There aren’t a lot of guys in the NBA that have invested wisely and saved their money,’ Pitino said. That, in turn, will make competition overseas tougher for guys like the 6-foot-10 Jennings. ‘The competition for Europe and Asia is going to be very keen with this lockout,’ Pitino said, adding he told Jennings: ‘Don’t hold out. There’s no summer league. Samardo [Samuels] got very lucky last year because LeBron broke up the Cleveland Cavaliers. So you’ve got to take what’s available.’”

Arizona State’s men’s basketball team didn’t have much of a season, but some folks with ties to the program sure are on a roll in the NBA playoffs.
- When Boston traded Kendrick Perkins to Oklahoma City for Jeff Green, it created more minutes for former Sun Devils star James Harden, who suddenly has grown into that manly beard, although we’re not sure about the ‘fro hawk.
Anyway, Harden averaged 15.6 points during 26 regular-season games after the trade. And he scored 20 points or more seven times in that span after hitting for 20 or more only three times in the Thunder’s first 56 games.
Coach Doug Collins and the Philadelphia 76ers staved off a sweep at the hands of the Miami Heat on Sunday, winning 86-82 in their first-round Eastern Conference series.
It might seem like a lifetime ago, but Collins once was an assistant coach at ASU, following Bob Weinhauer there from Penn. He liked it so much he has maintained a home here through the years.
Had the Heat swept Philadelphia, it still would have been viewed as a great year for Collins in his first season as coach of a team he played for and loves.
The 76ers improved by 14 games over last season – the fourth time in four tries that a team coached by Collins has improved by 10 games or more in his first season there.
- And then there’s the guy we’re most happy to see having success.
No, not Byron Scott, the former ASU star coaching the Cleveland Cavaliers, although we’re glad that he’s probably lying on some nice beach after enduring 63 losses in the aftermath of “The Decision.”
No, we’re talking about Lionel Hollins, coach of the Memphis Grizzlies and ASU’s playmaker in the 1970s under Ned Wulk.
Some time this week or soon thereafter, Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau will accept the Red Auerbach Trophy that goes to the NBA Coach of the Year. Collins also will get votes for that along with Denver’s George Karl and maybe Gregg Popovich of the Spurs.
Too bad the votes had to be submitted before the playoffs, because people are starting to notice nobody has done a better coaching job than “Train.”
Hollins coached Memphis into the playoffs for the first time in five years and has the eighth-seeded Grizzlies sitting on a 2-1 series lead over Popovich and the West’s top-seeded Spurs going into Game 4 on Monday.
And he did it after losing arguably the team’s best player, Rudy Gay, to a shoulder injury.
Gay was injured in mid-February and underwent surgery in March.
But Memphis went 15-10 down the stretch without him, and that was with Hollins sitting some regulars in a pair of regular-season-ending losses.
To say that Hollins paid his dues to get where he’s at would be sort of like saying Brandon Marshall and his wife should take a stab at marital counseling.
After a 10-year NBA playing career, during which he won a title with Portland and was named to a couple of all-defensive teams, Hollins started his coaching career as a Sun Devils assistant.
He spent seven years as a Suns assistant. Then he served as an assistant for four years in Vancouver before being named interim head coach there.
He didn’t get to keep the job.
He re-joined the Grizzlies under a new owner and in a new city as an assistant and once again ended up serving as interim head coach. He wasn’t offered the job that time, either.
Finally in 2009, he was hired for the first time without an interim tag.
Heck, he ought to get a few Coach of the Year votes just for perseverance.

The weeks leading up to the draft can be a highly negative process for an NFL hopeful. People seem to spend more time discussing your faults rather than what made you NFL-worthy in the first place.It’s not a stretch to say you are never a worse player than the day before you are drafted, and never a better player than the day you are selected.Fairley dominated the 2010 season and was exceptional during his position workouts leading up to the draft. He’s big and quick and has an ability to rid himself of blockers and rush the passer on the inside.Scouts have questioned his work ethic and the list of late hits he racked up.That said, NFL assistants usually believe they can “coach up” a talented player who lacks effort at times. Most personnel executives believe Fairley’s potential is too great at his position to ignore.He won’t have to wait long to hear his name called.

One game. One hour.
Sixty minutes, maybe a little more with overtime.
That’s how long Lightning winger Steve Downie and Penguins winger Chris Kunitz have to sit for their head hunting in Game 3 of their playoff series. One-game suspensions for acting like Barbary apes.
And the NHL wonders why we think it’s a joke when it comes to discipline, even with all its talk about cracking down and outlawing blindside head shots, which was outlawed just this season.
Downie’s half-rink dash and Lady Bada-Byng launch into Pittsburgh’s Ben Lovejoy in the first period of Game 3 and Kunitz’s downright dirty elbow, with intent, to Simon Gagne’s head a short time later deserved harsher punishments.
I guess NHL Commissioner Gary “No Neck” Bettman and his guys up in New York were too busy announcing their 10-year, $2 billion TV deal to bother taking any of this other stuff all that seriously.
What, the playoffs come around and all their big talk about big hits goes away?
If these guys were any more asleep at the wheel they’d be air traffic controllers.
Me? I think both Downie and Kunitz should be sitting out the rest of this series, at the very least.
This is how the NHL Senior Executive Vice President Colin Campbell, who is all over the place on supplemental discipline, described Downie’s incident:
“Downie left his feet and launched himself at the head of his opponent and he came from a considerable distance, with speed and force, to deliver the check.”
That is not exactly accurate — Downie did not hit Lovejoy’s head.
But his feet were about 3 feet in the air as he collided with Lovejoy.
One game.
Imagine if he had hit Lovejoy in the head. Downie has done that before.
Or imagine if Downie played for another team and had hit Marty St. Louis.
Imagine reaction in Tampa Bay.
This is how Campbell described the Kunitz incident:
“Kunitz delivered an elbow directly to the head of his opponent.”
Accurate, completely, real thug stuff.
One game.
Why not just hand out candy instead?
It’s not just the fact that Downie is a habitual offender when it comes to this sort of thing, which he most certainly is, with repeat offenses during his career.
This time: one game.
Nor is it just the fact that Gagne has already suffered several concussions in his NHL career.
Nor is it just the fact that this series, and these NHL playoffs, are going on without Sidney Crosby, who still hasn’t been cleared to play after a concussion received on a blind-side shot from Washington’s David Steckel, and which was aggravated by a hit by none other than Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman.
And it’s not just the fact that already missing from this series was this season’s answer to Luca Brasi, the oft-suspended Pittsburgh’s Matt Cooke, who got in so many cheap, dangerous shots this season that the league suspended him late in the regular season, right on through … the first round of the playoffs.
The guy shouldn’t play at all.
Clearly, no one is getting the message, which maybe says the message isn’t loud and clear enough.
In the cases of Downie and Kunitz, it shouldn’t matter that Lovejoy and Gagne weren’t seriously injured. Lovejoy even managed to get the puck up ice, and up ice it went, eventually into the Lightning net, for the first goal in the Penguins’ 3-2 Game 3 victory.
The NHL has its Rule 48, the head shot rule. NHL general managers, at their recent meetings, talked a great game about getting serious about head shots. The league has established new protocols for concussions, including leading players to a “quiet room” for observation and examination by doctors during games. Leave your rally drums at the door.
But none of this matters if the NHL is going to do nutty things, as evidenced by the case of Vancouver Canucks winger Raffi Torres, who was suspended the final two games of the regular season, and first two games of Vancouver’s playoff series with Chicago, for a head shot on Edmonton’s Jordan Eberle.
Well, in Torres’ first game back, Game 3 against the Blackhawks, Torres knocked Hawks defenseman Brent Seabrook from the game with a shoulder to the head behind the net. Campbell and the league ruled no suspension was necessary. Torres played in Game 4. Seabrook, still recovering, did not.
In other news, a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found that the amount of time NHL players missed because of concussions rose from 1997 to 2004.
A couple of months ago, before the Lighting played the Penguins — who were without Crosby then, too — Gagne talked about his concussion history and the new league rule on head shots.
“I think they’re doing the right thing,” Gagne said. “It took them a while before bringing a rule, but I think it’s going to take a little more than that. We have a rule on a blind (head) shot, but we’re still having guys hit in the head. Until you go 100 percent against hits to the head, you’re going to see those cracks.
You’re seeing those cracks right now, in these playoffs, the playoffs missing Crosby.
Is this going to be a NASCAR deal, where you put up safe walls and require head-neck restraints after Dale Earnhardt is gone? Is it going to take a hockey player paralyzed, or worse?
Bettman, Campbell and the other league executives, they’re the one who need to be led to a quiet room and have their heads examined.
This league was crazy for dropping so small a hammer on Downie and Kunitz, and even more so when it came to Torres. It borders on negligence, criminal negligence if it ever comes down to that, and it just might if someone gets hit in the head one time too many, or in just the wrong way, and never gets up.

The Anschutz Entertainment Group and the Los Angeles City Council need to reach an agreement on the Farmers Field project by early summer to show a skeptical NFL that the city is serious about bringing the league back to the nation’s second largest market, AEG chief executive officer Tim Leiweke said Tuesday.Leiweke also said he appreciates the concerns of some city officials that an NFL team be locked into a 20- to 30-year lease for the downtown stadium.Leiweke, however, said AEG would not be able to act as a guarantor on $350 million in public bonds to pay for replacing the Los Angeles Convention Center’s West Hall. He also dismissed city council member Bill Rosendahl’s demand that the city receive a significant portion of the stadium project’s naming rights deal with Farmers Insurance.A sense of urgency in the ongoing negotiations between AEG and the city is also necessitated by the possibility of the current NFL lockout being lifted in the coming months. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said teams cannot discuss relocation until the league reaches a labor agreement with its players. Officials behind a stadium project in the City of Industry said they can break ground on construction as soon as the lockout is lifted and a team is secured. Some sports business consultants and current and former NFL officials have said teams could be free to move before AEG and the city have an agreement on the $1.35 billion downtown stadium project.”That’s a risk that the city and us are going to have to take,” Leiweke said. “That’s why we keep on asking them to see if we can’t come to an understanding by June or July so that we can at least prove to the NFL that you can do business in the city of L.A. The biggest issue the NFL has is they don’t believe the city of L.A. will ever get a deal done no matter how good the deal is they’re being offered. I don’t believe that and I think we will get a deal done.”Jan Perry, chairman of the city council committee looking at the downtown stadium project, said it is unlikely that the city and AEG would finalize a deal by early summer but left open the possibility that the two sides could have an agreement on principle terms on the Farmers Field plan by June.”Having a whole deal done by June is probably not realistic but we are moving in an expeditious pace,” Perry said.Leiweke said AEG appreciates concerns raised this week by some council members and Gerry Miller, the council’s chief legislative analyst, that an NFL franchise relocating to Los Angeles be locked into a long-term lease, potentially 30 years in length. The concern stems from Los Angeles’ history with the NFL and that AEG is asking the city to issue public bonds for $350 million to pay for a new West Hall for the Los Angeles Convention Center to be owned by the city but operated by AEG. Los Angeles-Orange County is the only market to lose two professional football teams in the same year when the Raiders returned to Oakland and the Rams relocated to St. Louis following the 1995 season.Farmers Field will be built on the current site of the West Hall. A replacement hall will be built adjacent to the stadium. Bonds on the new hall would be paid back over a 20- to 30-year period.”We’re going to have to be certain that these teams stay as long as those bonds are outstanding,” Miller said.AEG officials are proposing the bonds be paid off by ticket fees and increased parking revenues.Leiweke said that he is confident AEG can get an NFL franchise to agree to a long-term lease.”Yeah, I think so,” he said. “We are very understanding as to some of the issues the city has in order to feel comfortable with the deal and we know that’s one of them. And we’ve made it very clear that within reason we’re prepared to make sure the taxpayers feel very comfortable that they’re not going to get stuck with the tab. They’re not going to have to pay anything out of the general fund and they’re not going to be left high and dry by the NFL.”So we understand that a long-term lease with an NFL team is an important part of this and obviously that’s subject to getting a team and we’re in the midst of beginning and continuing those conversations. But I don’t see a huge issue if that’s critical to Gerry and the counsel then we’ll figure out a way to get there.”Miller and city council members this week also emphasized that the guarantee on the bonds for the West Hall should be with AEG and not a company created for the stadium project.”I won’t recommend it if it’s an LLC,” Miller said. “I can tell you right now that won’t be sufficient.”Leiweke, however, said AEG cannot act as guarantor on the bonds because the city will retain ownership of convention facility.”Ultimately if you look at the bonds and the covenants on the bonds of the current convention center there are restrictions,” he said. “And this is a convention center that we’ve agreed to take a risk on the design, we’ve agreed to take risk on to fill in the gap annually if there’s a shortfall but the city has to own the convention center. We can’t. That’s not our place.”Instead AEG has proposed using a plan similar to one safeguarding bonds on Staples Center. Under the plan AEG would make an annual payment to an account controlled to the city to cover potential shortfalls between revenues created by the new stadium and the yearly debt service on the bonds. Leiweke said initially there will be a gap between the revenues and the debt service.”That’s worked for 12 years at Staples Center and I’m fairly certain that same vision will work well for Farmers Field,” he said.Still some city officials and sports economists maintain AEG needs to make a bigger commitment to backing the bonds.”I hear people walking around going what if AEG goes broke?” Leiweke said. “If AEG goes broke they’ve got a far bigger problem than the convention center. We’re not going broke.”Should the Farmers Field be completed AEG will receive $700 million over 30 years as part of a naming rights deal with the insurance company. Rosendahl insists the revenue from the deal should be shared with the city.”That $700 million, we should get a piece of that,” he said. “Period.”Leiweke said Rosendahl’s demand is not realistic.”I’m more than happy if Bill wants to invest in Farmers Field and take risk with us, I’m a hundred percent committed that we share the revenue,” Leiweke said. “But if he wants us to be only the third stadium in the history of the NFL to be privately financed and privately guaranteed than why should we share the revenue with him when we’re already paying him a ground lease to rent the space?”We’re paying above market ground lease and then he says I want a percentage of the naming rights. Why? We’re taking all the risk on the football stadium and the football team. So I’m happy to work through issues on the convention center. If there’s upside on signage and naming rights there as there should be, that absolutely should go to the city.”We’re 100 percent supportive. But if you ask us to privatize the football stadium, ask us to take all the risk on operating the football stadium and putting all the capital into the stadium, I don’t understand the logic of saying you want some of the naming rights from the football stadium.”

We’ve known the Cardinals 2011 opponents since the end of the 2010 season, so there won’t be much drama when the NFL announces dates and times of regular-season games at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
There are a few things to watch for, however, including how many Cardinals road games start at 10 a.m. Arizona time, if there are long trips east in consecutive weeks, and how many opponents will have bye weeks before playing the Cardinals.
The Cardinals will do some traveling this season as they are matched up against opponents from the NFC East and the AFC North. So in addition to trips to division foes San Francisco, Seattle and St. Louis, the Cardinals travel to Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Cincinnati and Minnesota (of the NFC North).
The home schedule includes the Cowboys, Giants, Browns, Steelers and Panthers.
Over the past few years, NFC West teams have asked schedule makers to take into consideration the difficulty of playing at 10 a.m. Pacific time, especially in consecutive weeks. Two years ago, Commissioner Roger Goodell said he did not have proof that such a schedule presented a disadvantage.
At the same time, the NFL changed the schedule to make traveling West easier for teams in the East. That, of course, prompted criticism that the league listens more attentively to the Patriots and Giants than, say, the Cardinals and Seahawks.
Eastern teams cannot play at Seattle and San Francisco in the same season, or at San Diego and Oakland in the same season. For scheduling purposes for those teams, Arizona and San Francisco are paired, as are St. Louis and Seattle. In the AFC, Denver and Oakland are partnered and San Diego and Kansas City are together.
Under Ken Whisenhunt, the Cardinals have adjusted their travel schedule on East Coast trips. They usually leave on a Friday, giving them two days to acclimate to a possible time change. In 2008, the Super Bowl, they stayed in Washington D.C., the week between games against the Redskins and Jets.
The Cardinals lost both of those games.

The largest crowd in Utah spring football history watched a defensive battle and, ultimately, an offensive struggle as Red defeated White 7-0 in Utah’s annual spring game.
Quarterback Tyler Shreve, a true freshman who is battling Griff Robles for the second spot to the injured Jordan Wynn, had the lone touchdown pass of the day – as he found Dexter Ransom late in the second quarter.
That was the last major offensive play of the day in what turned out to be a listless and rather uneventful spring game.
Of course, the poor performance by the offense shouldn’t be a surprise, as the offensive line was depleted and Wynn, as mentioned, sat out.
Whittingham had this to say about the game:
“It’s tough to make a definitive call on the offense. We didn’t have Jordan, who we expect to run it with a lot more proficiency than what we had this spring. I saw some good things. The running backs, I believe, are encouraging. I think we’re going to have a nice set of receivers–although DeVonte and Dres didn’t play today. On the offensive line, we’re still looking for a guard.”

So there isn’t much to glean from Saturday’s performance. At least to the point where any of us should worry about the potential of major struggle once the 2011 season rolls around.
Not with so many players out and the offense still trying to grasp the scheme changes.
That doesn’t mean, though, there isn’t work to be done. While Wynn sitting out played a major role in the struggles Saturday, what showed here is how unprepared the Utes are if Wynn does happen to go down during the upcoming season. Shreve and Robles have not proven, at any point during spring camp, they’re ready to step in and fill in for Wynn if the situation dictates.
That is a concern. Wynn has not proven to be the most durable quarterback out there and right now, Utah is nowhere near ready to handle another injury from him.
But hopefully it doesn’t come to that. Hopefully we only see either Shreve or Robles (and maybe Jon Hays) in mop up duty.
If that’s the case, the offense does appear to have a nice foundation. I was extremely impressed with Harvey Langi, who is a true freshman and will be battling for the starting running back spot. In fact, I’d wager the running backs were the most impressive of the offensive unit, as John White also did well for the White team.
Defensively, I liked what I saw. With all the questions surrounding the offense throughout spring, I would have actually been more concerned if the defense didn’t look good Saturday. They did what they were supposed to – held down a weakened offense and that’s good.
Of the defense, I was most satisfied with Trevor Reilly. Playing linebacker, he had 2.5 sacks and a pass breakup.
Overall, I guess it was a typical spring game. There were no serious injuries, not all questions were answered and the team isn’t anywhere near their potential.
Hopefully there is more progress over the spring and summer months and that Wynn heals up nicely – because the season is riding on his shoulders, both literally and figuratively.

In an alarming turn for Anaheim’s attempt to land a third NBA team in Southern California, Commissioner David Stern on Friday gave Sacramento two more weeks to boost the argument that it deserves to keep the Kings, that city’s only major league franchise.
Stern extended the deadline to May 2 for Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof to apply for relocation to Anaheim’s Honda Center. That amounted to a green light for Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson to continue selling league officials on the credibility of his plan to build a downtown arena with the help of Los Angeles billionaire Ron Burkle.
“The mayor’s vision we don’t know if it’s real or pie-in-the-sky, but we’ll knock ourselves out finding out over the next few weeks,” Stern said in a New York news conference. “This is very building-focused.”
Though Stern’s act was viewed by some involved in the process as a nod to the 25-year loyalty of Sacramento’s fervent fan base, it complicates the Kings’ plans for arrival in Anaheim by next season. The Maloofs presented details of their move Thursday and were poised to apply for relocation to the NBA’s Board of Governors on Monday.
The board has 120 days to approve a relocation application and the league is bracing for a labor battle by July.
An NBA team official familiar with the Board of Governors’ relocation committee discussions but unauthorized to discuss them publicly said the league is intrigued by the 11th-hour entry of Burkle, a co-owner of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, and impressed by how quickly Johnson mobilized what Stern said was $9 million in team sponsorship and season-ticket buyers.
The model of allowing Burkle and Johnson to work toward a new downtown arena on a 230-acre plot is considered no less impressive than the financially struggling Maloofs’ attempt to move into the nearly 20-year-old arena in Anaheim, some league officials said.
“The kids have no money,” the NBA team official said.

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Stern nevertheless told reporters he has concluded that Southern California “can support” a third league team and noted that previous attempts to build an arena in Sacramento have been met in the league offices by “eye rolling.”
Stern said the delay does not mean that the Kings will be “forced to stay in Sacramento” next season.
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait said in a prepared statement, “We understand that the relocation committee is balancing a variety of issues we remain hopeful and optimistic that the NBA will have a franchise playing at Anaheim’s Honda Center in the near future.”
The relocation committee headed by Oklahoma City Thunder owner Clay Bennett will press the Maloofs and Honda Center officials to specify their plans for anticipated television revenue in Anaheim, and to detail arena improvement initiatives for which the city of Anaheim last month authorized $25 million in a $75-million bond package that includes undetermined relocation fees the Maloofs would owe.
In Sacramento, the Maloofs’ local television deal nets less than $10 million annually, money the owners kept.
In Southern California, a possible TV deal could enter the $20-million annual range, and the league wants to know whether that revenue will be placed in its revenue-sharing pot.

This morning was the time for Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich to meet with the media, and while at least one NFL head coach said this week that he 揾as a long way to go� in showing NFL teams that he is draft-worthy as a football player, Herzlich will no doubt bowl over any team with his intangibles.
He certainly made an impression among the Combine media throng, as his press conference left the room buzzing and leading one reporter to say that Herzlich has a future as a motivational speaker when he抯 done playing football.
Herzlich is cancer-free after learning he had a rare form of bone cancer in May 2009, and sat out his true senior year. He returned to the field last fall.
The Pennsylvania native was asked if what he抯 overcome motivates him during games.
揑t’s not a conscious motivation,� he said. 揑 don’t sit there in the 4th quarter and think 慖 beat cancer so I can do this.� It’s just that you get trained throughout your whole life, whether you had to go through something like this or something else in your life where you just train yourself to push through tough times. Throughout the year I went through chemotherapy and radiation, those were tough times. That was as tough as it’s going to get.
揝o in the fourth quarter as tough as it is what are you doing? Playing football. I was doing something I love. Take every minute and don’t waste it.�
While Herzlich said that he抯 100 percent and that in terms of his times speed he抯 right back where he was pre-illness, he also noted that he hasn抰 yet had the opportunity to get all of his strength back.
揑 really have progressed. Everybody saw my progression week to week during the season but a lot of these people don抰 understand � I haven抰 had an offseason yet to get my strength back. To get my speed back,� Herzlich said. 揗y first practice (with BC last fall) was three days before the first game. The gains I抳e made have been incredible so far. I envision progressing even more, so next time I step on the field it will be like, 憌ow, he抯 at his best right now.挃
Herzlich and the rest of the linebackers will be on the Lucas Oil Field turf tomorrow, and he’ll get another chance to show scouts and coaches how far he’s progressed then.
While it remains to be seen which team selects Herzlich and in which round, Eagles teammate Anthony Castonzo, who impressed in his drills on Saturday, is inspired. The two trained together for the Combine.
“I’m very close with him. His story is incredibly inspirational,” Castonzo said. “He came back from cancer and rather than saying ‘Oh, I’m back. That was an incredible feat.’ He said ‘I’m still going to pursue my dreams.’ He didn’t say ‘I beat cancer and I’m done.’ He’s continued to pursue his dreams and wants to be the best at his position. I admire him for that.”

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