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Sporting News college basketball columnist Mike DeCourcy addresses five topics currently in his sport’s headlines. 1. Kansas basketball in the Mountain West — is that the biggest crime that likely will result from this expected nationwide conference realignment? DeCourcy: The biggest crime is the apparent failure of imagination on the part of the remaining Big 12 membership [...]

Sporting News staff reports While much of the recent college football expansion talk has revolved around the Big Ten, another BCS conference might be the first to make a bold move. The Texas website OrangeBloods.com, a member of the Rivals.com network, reports the Pac-10 appears prepared to invite Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, [...]

The NCAA will finally announce its punishment for USC in the Reggie Bush case. There’s no morning-line favorite for the punishment Southern Cal’s football program will receive from the NCAA Committee on Infractions. Probation, scholarship loss, even a postseason ban? Nobody knows where the music will stop. And for the Trojans, the punishment—which probably won’t come until [...]

LAKE DELTON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities in a south-central Wisconsin community say a Green Bay Packers player is being investigated for an alleged sexual assault of two women early Saturday. Lake Delton police have not released the player’s name. (Update: According to the [...]

Bill Sweek, for Sporting News We played Drake in the semifinal our senior year. I went in, and they were pressing us. We lost the ball a few times, and I got pulled out. I sat there discontented for a while, didn’t get to play much at all. John Wooden is remembered for both his [...]

Kenny Heitz, for Sporting News When you’re being recruited to play Division I sports, you will never be flattered more in the rest of your life than you are during that time period. You will be told how wonderful you are. You’re going to come in, you’re going to start as a sophomore, we [...]

In Nashville, Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson wants a new contract because he grossly has outperformed his slotted rookie deal. He deserves one. Darrelle Revis believes the Jets promised a new deal and has done enough to get it. In Houston, Houston Texans receiver Andre Johnson apparently wants a new contract because he doesn’t like the [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP)—Somewhere during the second quarter in Game 2 of the NBA finals, Ray Allen(notes) slipped into that shooting zone only visited by real-life superstars and movie characters. With his fundamentally flawless jumper snapping crisply from his wrists, the Boston guard hit 3-pointers in dizzying bunches against the helpless Los Angeles Lakers. He made seven in the first half [...]

SAN FRANCISCO — Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott didn’t walk out of the final conference meeting of the weekend with any earth-shaking announcements. But he was willing to say that he’s been given the green light to potentially shake up the college football landscape. Scott [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — How much is a new stadium worth to the San Francisco 49ers? So far, about $150 per registered voter in Santa Clara, Calif. That is how much the storied Bay Area NFL franchise, once synonymous with success but [...]