Drive and Dish

Drive and Dish started out as a blog devoted to offering commentary on the game of basketball -- with a heavy emphasis on dishing out commen...

In the five days since Lute Olson stepped down as head basketball coach at Arizona, three recruits have backed out of their oral commitments...

On Friday, The New York Post and WCBS-TV in New York reported that Isiah Thomas was hospitalized for a drug overdose. Thomas and his family...

This morning, ESPN's Dick Vitale reported that Lute Olson is set to step down as Arizona men's head basketball coach . Thus far, no...

The leaves are falling from the trees, nightfall is coming earlier every day, college basketball teams began practicing last Friday and NBA ...

Utah point guard Deron Williams sprained his ankle during a pre season game in Chicago on Saturday night. Williams injured his ankle when ...

The American Mustache Institute is set to host ' Stache Bash 2008 . Make no mistake, it will undoubtedly turn out to be the party of t...

Pittsburgh senior guard Levance Fields will miss the start of basketball practice -- and possibly part of the season -- after undergoing su...

The NCAA is trying to dispel the myth of the "dumb jock." Via Inside Higher Ed : Myles Brand, president of the National Colleg...

NBA Comishioner David Stern announced that the league will eliminate 80 jobs in its United States offices . The layoff will affect 9 percen...

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first commercial cell phone call : "It was on Oct. 13, 1983, that Bob Barnett, then president o...

Last week Tribune Co. debuted the all new, redesigned Chicago Tribune . Frank the Tank, who publishes the Chicago sports/Illinois Fighting ...

With the current paucity of relevant basketball news to discuss, Drive and Dish has been forced to broaden its focus to include non basketba...

On Saturday, Navy traveled to Winston-Salem, NC, and upset #16 Wake Forest . It marked the first time in 23 years that the Midshipmen have ...

Sacramento forward Sharif Abdur-Rahim has announced his retirement from the NBA . Abdur-Rahim cited a recurring knee injury and his subsequ...

Stefan Fortsis of Slate.com has a suggestion for struggling Tennessee Titans' quarterback Vince Young: quit football . Even though You...

UNC Asheville's Kenny George is the tallest player in college basketball. But the 7'7," 360 lb center may have to miss his sen...

On Monday, Drive and Dish looked at how an erroneous report that United Airlines had filed for Chapter 11 sent United stock plummeting . Tu...

On Monday, a report that United Airlines had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy surfaced in the search results section of the South Florida Sun...

Legendary former Texas Western men's basketball coach Don Haskins died Sunday at age 78 . Haskins changed college basketball's land...