Watching New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin's explosion into the NBA this month, reading all of the stories about his meteoric rise from nobody to superstar, listening to all of the talking heads tell us Lin came from nowhere, I couldn't help thinkin

Mullen led the Hawks in just about every major pitching category last season and cracked the all-time single-season top 10s in starts, wins, innings pitched, and strikeouts as the ace at the top of SJU's rotation. In his eight conference starts, the Hawk

PHILADELPHIA - On Hawk Hill, in the house Hall of Fame coach Jack Ramsay built, where greats such as Mike Bantom, Matt Guokas, and most recently Jameer Nelson did their thing, it’s never been easy for visiting teams. Saint Joseph’s Hagan Arena is one of

ESPN Radio play-by-play announcer Jim Durham (left) and analyst Dr. Jack Ramsay will call the Bulls-Heat game Sunday. LeBron James and Chris Bosh may have taken their talents to Miami’s South Beach, but Derrick Rose is doing his best “lift up” Chicago’s

IOWA CITY, Ia. Literally. Davis left Stanford to become the new men’s basketball coach at Iowa in the spring of 1986, and airports became his second home as he commuted from the West Coast to the Midwest and back. In one of th

After a tumultuous start to the season, the Sacramento Kings have already hit the reset button, uggs clearance firing coach Paul Westphal after just seven games and a 2-5 record. Few coaches in NBA history have lost their jobs as quickly as Westphal, who

After a tumultuous start to the season, the Sacramento Kings have already hit the reset button, firing coach Paul Westphal after just seven games and a 2-5 record.Few coaches in NBA history have lost their jobs as quickly as Westphal, who went 51-120 wit

KING OF HAWK HILL: Phil Martelli is now the Hawks' all-time leader in career victories with his 17-year mark of 310-212. He set the record with the win over Morgan State on December 28, breaking the mark of 309 held by Bill Ferguson (1928-53). The coach,

YOU KEEP coming back to the arena because you never know if this is the game where you will see something you have never seen before. You might just appear at Hagan Arena on the night Phil Martelli wins more games than any coach in the glorious history o

Phil Martelli has moved atop the St. Joseph's men's basketball coaching ranks, but, true to his nature, he's worried now only about the next one and not the previous 310. Martelli became the school's all-time winningest coach with Wednesday's 81-50 victo

Phil Martelli has moved atop the St. Joseph's men's basketball coaching ranks, but, true to his nature, he's worried now only about the next one and not the previous 310. Martelli became the school's all-time winningest coach with Wednesday's 81-50 victo

Phil Martelli has moved atop the St. Joseph's men's basketball coaching ranks, but, true to his nature, he's only worried about the next one and not the previous 310. Martelli became the school's all-time winningest coach with Wednesday's 81-50 victory o

"I remember watching games on TV, seeing teams playing exotic defenses and thinking `well, we're not ready for that,'" said Martelli. PHILADELPHIA - With the next Saint Joseph's victory, head coach Phil Martelli will become the school's all-time leader

IF YOU ONLY HAVE been half paying attention through the years, you might think Phil Martelli is one-dimensional, the funny man who calls in to WIP who also happens to coach basketball. You would be wrong. Martelli, 55, can certainly be funny. He can also

TUALATIN -- When the Trail Blazers open the 2011-12 season against Philadelphia at the Rose Garden on Monday, it could be a milestone event for coach Nate McMillan, one that he had a very brief taste of AT the end of last season. If the Blazers win, McMi

It is fair to say that most people would feel that tying the program record for wins at Saint Joseph's University, a school that has had such coaching legends as Bill Ferguson, Jack McKinney and Dr. Jack Ramsay, is a big deal. Phil Martelli accomplished

This has been a bittersweet time for St. Joseph's head basketball coach Phil Martelli. Criticized nationally in the print, electronic, and social media after a scathing, first-person article by a former player, Martelli moved to the top of the Hawks coac

ESPN is moving its studio show to Los Angeles to take advantage of an increased role for Magic Johnson. Last year confirmed one of the undeniable truisms of sports television: Hate sells. NBA viewership rose mightily in 2010-11 on both ESPN and TNT, than