Words. Aron Phillips

While everyone had football on the brain for yesterday’s Super Bowl Sunday, the day also featured one of NYC’s most touted high school hoops rivalries between Christ the King (Queens, N.Y.) and Rice (Harlem, N.Y.). In front of a packed house on the Middle Village campus, I made the trek from the 4 to the J to the M for what could have been the greatest high school basketball spectacle ever. MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

Louisville’s first 2010 recruit? Harrison Barnes hating? Who’s the Player of the Year? Jason Jordan has fielded all of your e-mails and tackles each of these questions and more in this installment of “Mail Day with JJ.”

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Russell Smith’s signing eliminates Marquis Teague for Louisville?

I won’t lie; I’m not happy about Russell Smith (South Kent School, Conn.) signing with us … MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

Jason Jordan has fielded all of your e-mails and tackles each of these questions and more in this installment of “Mail Day with JJ.” MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

Louisville coach Rick Pitino may be fighting for his professional life, but he still found time to make a key addition to his staff.

Shabaka Lands, who was hired as a special assistant to Pitino this week, won’t help the Cards win the Big East this season. But what’s that matter? He’s connected to Pike High (Ind.) star guard Marquis Teague, priority No. 1 for Pitino in the class of 2011. MORE >

Words. Jason Jordan

Half Hollow Hills High (N.Y.) star Tobias Harris, a 6-9 forward, has had one of the most consistent and productive summers of any recruit, in any class, on the AAU circuit. He dominated the NBA Camp in June, then Peach Jam in July and capped off the summer with a strong showing at the Nike Global Challenge last week.

But neither that production nor his 22-point, 10-rebound and four-block per game summer averages have made more news than Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, a coach who Tobias says is in “serious contention” to land him. MORE >