Latest David Steele Stories

• Jim Brown: Treatment of LeBron Will Force Him to Leave
• By David Steele 5/20/2010 10:00 PM ET
• Jim Brown believes that the way the public has reacted to LeBron James since the Cavaliers were eliminated from the NBA playoffs is "an atrocity.'' And Brown thinks that it will eventually drive James ... More »
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• 'Lucky' Preakness for Baffert, Garcia
• By David Steele 5/15/2010 8:50 PM ET
• BALTIMORE -- Lookin At Lucky was just plain unlucky at the Kentucky Derby, trainer Bob Baffert and the owners were certain. Two weeks later, did their luck ever change. Either that, or what ... More »
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• Ad Campaign Has Traditionalists 'Preaking' Out
• By David Steele 5/14/2010 3:41 PM ET
• BALTIMORE -- Tom Chuckas, president of the Maryland Jockey Club, figured he would be asked a lot about this year's marketing slogan for Saturday's 135th running of the Preakness. He just didn't expect ... More »
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• Baffert: Keep Preakness in Baltimore
• By David Steele 5/14/2010 3:32 PM ET
• BALTIMORE -- If the trainers had any say in it, at least those who define thoroughbred racing as we know it today, the Preakness won't be going anywhere. If it did leave Pimlico, Baltimore and ... More »
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• Jim Calhoun's Back, but UConn's Future Still Hazy
• By David Steele 5/14/2010 1:30 PM ET
• The recovery from the still-undisclosed ailments that took Jim Calhoun away from the Connecticut basketball team earlier this year appears to be complete. As he spoke last week in Storrs about his ... More »
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• Derby Winner Super Saver Is Early Preakness Favorite
• By David Steele 5/12/2010 8:41 PM ET
• BALTIMORE -- The heavens opened up over Pimlico Race Course on Wednesday about a half-hour before post positions were drawn for Saturday's Preakness Stakes -- with Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver ... More »
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• UVa Still Finding Out About Huguely's Past, Wants to Close Future 'Gaps'
• By David Steele 5/07/2010 9:04 PM ET
• With yet more revelations about jailed Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely (right) surfacing Friday -- of past run-ins with the police and a report of a fight with a teammate last year -- the ... More »
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• Virginia Murder Stirs Memories for Anti-Violence Advocate
• By David Steele 5/06/2010 12:27 PM ET
• As Kathy Redmond heard more details about the Virginia lacrosse player who was killed earlier this week -- allegedly at the hands of a men's lacrosse player with whom she had been in a relationship -- ... More »
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• UVa Didn't Know About '08 Huguely Arrest; Police Find Red-Stained Shirt
• By David Steele 5/05/2010 7:51 PM ET
• As more evidence was discovered that potentially ties former Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely to the classmate he is charged with killing, university officials expressed frustration Wednesday ... More »
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• Accused Lacrosse Player Has Criminal Record; UVa Teams Will Play On
• By David Steele 5/05/2010 9:20 AM ET
• George Huguely, the Virginia lacrosse player charged with murdering fellow Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love, was Tasered during a November 2008 arrest in the Virginia town of Lexington, west of ... More »
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• Details Emerge in Virginia Lacrosse Death; Lawyer Calls It 'Accident'
• By David Steele 5/04/2010 5:18 PM ET
• The death of Yeardley Love (right), a University of Virginia senior lacrosse player, was "an accident with a tragic outcome,'' according to a statement released Tuesday by the lawyer on behalf of the ... More »
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• At Owen Thomas' Funeral, Family and Friends Still Stunned
• By David Steele 5/03/2010 4:02 PM ET
• NEFFS, Pa. -- Nearly an hour after the funeral had ended, after more than 500 people had filed slowly and quietly out of Union United Church of Christ and along the road past the adjoining cemetery ... More »
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• Early Withdrawal Date, Not Lockout, Is Early Entrants' Biggest Concern
• By David Steele 5/01/2010 4:00 PM ET
• The unique possibility looming on the NBA's horizon appears to be having a mild effect on the decisions college players make about going pro early. But a certainty in the college game now is having ... More »
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• Penn Football Player Took Own Life, Mother Says
• By David Steele 4/28/2010 1:08 PM ET
• The Penn football program is mourning the suicide of a player for the second time in five years. Owen Thomas, a second-team All-Ivy League defensive end who had been voted a team captain a week ... More »
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• NCAA Players' Cut of Mammoth TV Deal Still the Same: Zero Percent
• By David Steele 4/27/2010 3:51 PM ET
• On the website of the National College Players Association -- a California-based organization dedicated to protecting college athletes from abuses by their schools and the NCAA -- is a summary of a ... More »
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• Coaches: 68 is Fine, 96 Would've Been Better
• By David Steele 4/23/2010 12:00 AM ET
• When the NCAA announced its new television deal with CBS and Turner Sports Thursday afternoon, the big number -- $10.8 billion in rights fees over the next 14 years -- wasn't as shocking to many ... More »
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• Washington Area Also the Nation's Point Guard Capital
• By David Steele 4/21/2010 10:00 PM ET
• WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time (not all that long ago, in fact), any college program that wanted a point guard to steer it to the top had to make the New York City area a prime destination. That's ... More »
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• For Butler, George Mason, Victory Began In Green Bay
• By David Steele 4/19/2010 12:00 PM ET
• Jim Larranaga hadn't exactly grown tired of the comparisons between the Butler team that reached the national championship game two weekends ago, and the George Mason team he coached to the Final ... More »
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• Hoyas' Greg Monroe Going to NBA
• By David Steele 4/17/2010 6:00 PM ET
• WASHINGTON -- Greg Monroe, the latest in the long line of all-American big men from Georgetown, is now the latest to enter the NBA. The 6-foot-11 Monroe, a third-team All-American as a sophomore, will ... More »
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• Big East Exodus Not So Big This Time: Watch 'Nova, G'town
• By David Steele 4/14/2010 7:35 PM ET
• The theme of the Big East entering the just-concluded season was that, after two teams reached the 2009 Final Four in Detroit and after most of the top programs suffered defections galore, the ... More »
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