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This is a column I guess I'll only write once.
My favorite Final Four memories, on the occasion of my impending retirement following nearly 26 years as Senior Writer at @sportingnews.
(I'll still be around some, just not all the time 😉)
Michael DeCourcy
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Michael DeCourcy
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Sporting News college hoops columns, Big Ten Network studio analyst, NCAA brackets for FoxSports. NFL, soccer sportingnews.com @CoachingforLit Ambassador
- Replying to @VaelisFoxAnyone can sing in the shower. Anyone can read Hamlet. Anyone can kick a ball. Only the elite can do any of these things at a level worthy of the public’s attention. To suggest that one is easier to do than the others is preposterous. Your comparison is ludicrous.
- If you're a Steelers fan and not proud to have Mike Tomlin as your coach, especially after how he handled his interview on ESPN's First Take, I honestly don't know what to tell you.
- Auburn cheerleader advisor is walking past the stands. Somebody tells: roll Tide! She says: What time is your game? 🤣🤣🤣😞
- The four-team playoff was a show. The 12-team tournament is a genuine championship. Having a genuine championship ELEVATES the regular season. This was the best college football season of the last 60 years.So two teams that wouldn’t have made it in 4-team CFP Playoff format last year are playing for the natuonal title - neither one a conference champ. How much does this diminish CFB regular season?
- Those who suggest Matt Painter is anything less than one of the very best coaches in college basketball might as well admit they just tune in for March. There’s been too much of that in the past two days.
- Only in baseball do they write nonsense like “wasted in a small market.” In NFL (Mahomes, Allen, Jackson) and NBA (SGA, Halliburton, Giannis), they contend for titles and are celebrated as superstars.
- Indiana is so much better with Trey Galloway and Rob Phinesee. One wonders how February would have gone if they'd both been available the entire month.
- Purdue to the Final Four. When people who pretend to know college hoops say a great coach can't do something because it hasn't happened yet, remember Matt Painter on this day. And Jim Calhoun in 99. And Bill Self in 08. And Jay Wright in 09. It's always nonsense.
- The great Jim Nantz is wrapping up his final Final Four. Congratulations to him on three decades of excellence.
- I have known Bob Huggins for 30 years, and I’ve covered few better coaches. Perhaps now that he walks with legends like Adolph Rupp and Dean Smith, Huggs will get all the respect he’s earned.
- The Steelers will regret this for years.
- Alabama's Nate Oats fails leadership test with failure to discipline Brandon Miller
- Is this because Terry Bradshaw has four wins and two MVPs?Mahomes joins ELITE company with Brady and Montana 🐐
