John Clay: I was at the Final Four. I can report that college basketball is far from dead.

John Clay: I was at the Final Four. I can report that college basketball is far from dead.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Get on out of here with your gloom and doom about how the game just isn’t what it used to be. In the end, college basketball always delivers. Surely this past weekend was proof, with its incessant…

The road to madness

What a journey.  The road began in Maui and took us across the country, ending in San Antonio.  Not the way we would have liked the trip to end, but in all honesty a journey that exceeded all expectations.  It does not happen by accident. I have been a so-so basketball fan for a long time.  My own career ended before I could drive, when I went up for a rebound, landed on the back of another player, and found my kneecap on the back side of my leg…

Transfer portal, NIL have stolen the madness from March

College basketball’s Cinderella has died, and with her, so much of the NCAA Tournament’s magic has been laid to rest. Both were victims of the out-of-control transfer portal and the almighty NIL dollar. Another way of putting it: March Madness isn’t so mad any more.

Len Elmore: No denial of NIL money and impact on Terps and college basketball realities - Baltimore Positive WNST

It’s been a while since Terps hoops great Len Elmore made a visit but after reading his passionate words about what makes Maryland great, Nestor thought it was time for him to opine on the evolving landscape of college sports and the lack of guardrails in the modern NIL world of university student-athlete life. Len Elmore, a former NBA player and current sports management professor at Columbia University, discussed the evolving landscape of col…