Arsalan Kazemi has chosen a school.
Kazemi, a 6-foot-7, 190-pound combo forward from Iran who plays at The Patterson (N.C.) School, made a verbal commitment to Rice Friday during an official visit to the Houston school.
Kazemi’s commitment comes shortly after Egheosa Edomwonyi, a 6-7, 225-pound power forward from the Princeton (N.J.) Hun School, also chose to [...]

There is a new player in the John Wall Sweepstakes.
The Duke staff has reached out to those close to Wall about making a commitment in the spring.
“Yeah,” Wall said by text message when asked if this was the case.
The 6-foot-4 Wall out of Raleigh (N.C.) Word of God is due to the take the SAT [...]

For the second time this month, sophomore forward Herb Pope was denied a waiver from the NCAA that would have enabled him to play at Seton Hall this year.
“The NCAA Subcommittee of Legislative Relief has upheld the staff decision to deny the transfer waiver request for Seton Hall men’s basketball student athlete Herb Pope,” read [...]

My colleague Jane McManus of The Journal News has penned an interesting column criticizing The Jets Flight Crew.
If I ever took my 4-year-old daughter to a Jets game (she’s already been to a Yankees game and a high school football game at Giants Stadium), I’m not sure how I’d feel about her seeing the Flight [...]

On the same day that North Carolina was chosen as the preseason No. 1 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ poll, the Tar Heels received some bad news.
Senior forward Tyler Hansbrough, the 2008 national college basketball player of the year, has a stress reaction condition in his right shin and will sit out practice indefinitely. Head [...]

Kenny Boynton, the No. 2 shooting guard in the Class of 2009, made a verbal commitment to Florida on Thursday on ESPNU.
The 6-foot-2, 187-pound Boynton out of Plantation (FL) American Heritage chose the Gators over Duke, USC, Georgia Tech and Texas.
”Next year I feel I’m going to be a big piece of the team [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – This is not the way JR Inman wanted to begin his senior year.
Suspended. Injured. And patiently waiting for his chance to play.
“It’s probably the toughest thing that I’ve ever had to deal with in my life because of the fact that it is my last year and I do have a lot [...]

The landscape of Dominic Cheek’s recruitment is undergoing some changes.
The 6-foot-5 Cheek has shuffled some visit dates and knocked some schools off his list.
First, both Indiana and Seton Hall are out, according to St. Anthony associate head coach Ben Gamble, who is handling Cheek’s recruitment.
“He’s no longer interested in Indiana and he’s no longer interested [...]

We thought this was one of the funniest things we’ve seen in a while. Once you get through the opening ad and the “Weekend Update” stuff, the Hall & Oates bit is classic.
And here’s a couple more if you want to go down this path….

The Big East is officially loaded.
Seven teams from the conference made the initial ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ poll, which was released on Thursday.
North Carolina is ranked No. 1 in the poll after receiving all 31 first-place votes.
UConn followed at No. 2 and Louisville at No. 3.