Basketball season in Milwaukee officially came to a close last night as the Bucks lost in Boston, 87-74. Yep. 74. Now that's the way to finish the season, with 74 points. Can the players scream, "we want the pain of this season to end" any louder? It wasn't all bad though, the Bucks held the Celtics to 27 points in the second half. That is some serious D, and the way Scott Skiles likes his teams to play, but even that kind of D won't help when you give up 39 in the second quarter. With Ellis, Gooden and Ilyasova on the bench, I guess the outcome was expected. The lone bright spot of the night was Jon Leuer ...

Bradley Tech girls basketball coach Alina Cunningham told me that she will coach at least one more year at the school. ...

The "Climate study" that I've been talking about on my website for over a month now is basically a top-down stripping of the entire department to figure out exactly what's wrong with it. It's like we have a 1990 Chevy Camaro that's been beat to **** in the past few years and we need to take it all apart and rebuild it.

It's not going to be fun, but it's necessary. The study itself is almost done, but the decisions based off the study will play out over the next couple months. What will result is a streamlined athletic department that has (hopefully) all the right people in place, ...

After being the runner-up for jobs like SMU, USC and a host of others over the last few years, Marquette Associate Head Coach Tony Benford has been named the new Head Coach of the University of North Texas Mean Green. ...

Ignoring the fact that PantherU had the on April 14th (premium subscribers), let's go with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report that brings Costello's ouster to the public for the first time. What is to become of the athletic department, now that we're going to be searching for our fifth athletic director since June 2009? It's obvious that something isn't working. George Koonce was in way over his ...