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By Triton Athletics
The Triton College men’s basketball team now knows who their opening round opponent will be in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II Tournament in Danville, Ill.
The top seeded Trojans (31-2) will face Metropolitan Community College (MCC) Penn Valley from Kansas City, Missouri, in the first round on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
Posted on March 9, 2016
By Triton Athletics
The Triton College men’s basketball team won their sixth Region IV championship in school history with a 59-47 triumph over Black Hawk College-East on Saturday 5 at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove.
The Trojans now advance to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II National Tournament March 15-19 in Danville, Illinois. Triton will learn who their first opponent will be when tournament pairings are announced by the NJCAA on Tuesday. The team has won a school record 27 consecutive games, boast an overall 31-2 record and are the No. 1 ranked team in the nation.
Posted on March 8, 2016
By Jim Coffman
Keep it simple Illinois fans: Lovie Smith is a way, way better coach than you could have ever dreamed would be on the Illini sideline next fall. His hiring was finalized Monday morning.
Heck, in Tampa Bay he even finally hired a competent offensive coordinator, something he never managed to do with the Bears (in fact, a big reason Lovie was fired despite going 10-6 in his last season with the Bears four years ago was because that assistant coach was going to be fired again and management decided not to let him hire a fifth OC).
Finding that assistant in Tampa Bay apparently got Lovie fired, but still . . . that was Dirk Koetter of course, who was so good at the job, at least according to Buccaneer management, that they couldn’t risk losing him to head coaching another team. So they fired Lovie and gave Koetter the head job instead.
Posted on March 7, 2016
By Thomas Hastings/The Conversation
Few Premier League seasons have produced as many upsets as the one currently unfolding. In August, Leicester City began the English football season at 5,000-1 to win the top-flight league, Chelsea were favorites for the title, and last year’s promoted trio (Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich) were strongly tipped for relegation. Yet with 10 games to go it is Leicester who are (still) top of the league, Chelsea languish in mid-table, and other high profile “mega-clubs” have so far failed to sustain a title-push (see Manchester United and Liverpool).
Alex Ferguson famously tried to explain football’s twists and turns with the elegant phrase: “Football? Bloody hell!” But dig a little deeper and there are concrete factors that can help us to explain this trend to unpredictability in England’s top-flight division.
Posted on March 5, 2016
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
No detail too mundane, every lame joke an instant classic. Plus: The White Sox Are Also Holding Spring Training But Let’s Talk About Other Stuff; Memo To Maddon: Up Your Game; Ivy League Not So Smart: Brandi’s Brain; Boring Bears Banishing Bennett; I Don’t Want To See Athletes’ Smelly Naked Dicks; Blackhawks Babble; Bulls Babble; Go Trojans; and The Everton Minute.
Posted on March 4, 2016
By Triton Athletics
For Triton College head men’s basketball coach Steve Christiansen, visiting Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove is always a little extra special. Christiansen is a native of Hinckley, Ill., just a short 15 minute drive to Waubonsee. So when Triton comes to town, many of Christiansen’s family and friends fill the stands to cheer him and the Trojans on.
Last weekend’s trip to Waubonsee was even more memorable for Christiansen. The Trojan’s 93-59 win over McHenry County College in the NJCAA Region IV District 3 semifinal earned him his 300th career win at Triton. It also earned the Trojans a berth in the regional championship game.
They’ll face Black Hawk College-East for the regional title March 5 at 5 p.m. at Waubonsee. The winner earns a trip to the national tournament later this month in Danville.
Posted on March 3, 2016
By Triton Athletics
The Triton College women’s basketball team has defied the odds all season en route to reaching their first regional championship game appearance in 22 years. In order to win the NJCAA Region IV District D crown Saturday, the Lady Trojans Triton will have to defeat Kankakee Community College for the first team in the school’s history.
Tip-off is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday, at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove.
Posted on March 3, 2016
By Roger Wallenstein
Eddie Einhorn was unfamiliar to longtime White Sox fans when he surfaced in Chicago as Jerry Reinsdorf’s partner, leading a team of investors who purchased the ballclub prior to the 1981 season.
Einhorn, who died last week at 80, has been credited with bringing college basketball into the living rooms of millions of Americans beginning in the 1960s via his innovative TVS Network. But as far as baseball on the South Side was concerned, there was no connection when he surfaced 35 years ago.
Posted on March 2, 2016
By Jim Coffman
Are the “you have to rest players more” people happy? This Bulls season is what you get when everyone in a basketball organization is focused more on rest than victories. Next up on the schedule is Miami.
The Bulls head into Tuesday night’s action seventh in the Eastern Conference at 30-28. They trail the fourth-place Heat by only 2.5 games. Unfortunately, they also only lead the 10th-place Wizards by 1.5.
The primary question plaguing the Bulls is the same that it has been forever – what’s going on with Derrick Rose? The answer is that he’s doing what all the rest lovers told him to do – he’s sitting out “meaningless” regular season games.
Posted on March 1, 2016
Sure, everyone wants Clayton Kershaw on their fantasy team, but there’s also tremendous depth as you run down the fantasy SP rankings. Heck, the No. 10 pitcher on my list could very well be this year’s NL Cy Young, and last year’s AL Cy Young doesn’t come up until No. 12, yet I expect him to be pretty much the same dominant starter he was in 2015.
Posted on March 1, 2016
