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BOSTON CELTICS AGAIN TOP MIAMI HEAT

By Arnie Leshin  Maybe the Boston Celtics have heard it 150 times, but they are still in there scraping and doing enough to outplay the 8th-seeded Miami Heat.    And with Thursday night‘s 110-97 second-straight impressive win, the second-seeded green has cut the deficit to 3-2 as Saturday’s National Basketball …

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No. 1 OKLAHOMA LEADS THE WAY

By Arnie Leshin  The regional round has come and gone and it appears that No. 1, top of the heap Oklahoma, might be on its way to a third consecutive championship.    If you haven’t been followed the long run from day one for the Sooners, it’s the NCAA Division …

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CARMELO ANTHONY RETIRES AFTER 19 YEARS

By Arnie Leshin  With a promise to his mother Mary that if he signed on to play in the National Basketball Association, freshman Carmen Anthony led Syracuse University to its first and only national championship in 2003. It was an epic journey for him. He hoisted the NCAA trophy and …

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Top-ranked Oklahoma sent California away Sunday

By Arnie Leshin  California was hopeful of pulling off a major upset, but instead the PAC-12 Bears were just another statistic belonging to top-ranked Oklahoma in its 5-inning 16-3 mercy-rule success in the Norman Regional    It was the third straight win in the region for the once-beaten (54-1) Sooners …

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That’s back-to-back defeats

By Arnie Leshin  That’s back-to-back defeats, a crushing blow to nationally ranked, a record 12-championship UCLA.    The latest, Friday’s 3-2 setback against visiting Grand Canyon in round one of the NCAA National Division 1 Women’s Softball Tournament ended the Bruins season at 52-8.   It came shortly after UCLA …

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