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Bernstein: Krzyzewski, Vitale Embarrassing Themselves
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist (CBS) One is a wolf in sheep’s clothing — a nasty megalomaniac who is over-worshipped and overpowered because of a bouncing, rubber ball. He’s as...
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Bernstein: Paterno Legacy Destroyed
By Dan Bernstein - CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist “After giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe yesterday, I am uncomfortable with what we agreed were the next steps. I am having trouble...
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Photo: Coach K’s Letter To Jordan After He Turned Down Duke
(CBS) – Mike Krzyzewski had no idea who he was writing this letter to. Perhaps if Coach K knew what Michael Jordan would become, he would have petitioned a little harder to recruit the 6-foot-6 high...
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Wisch: NU Would Be Smart To Replace Bill Carmody With Chris Collins
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) Jim Phillips expected more from Northwestern this season. I’m not sure why. But he did. “The program is going to be better. Bill has assured me of that,” NU’s athletic...
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Vote: Should College Basketball Fans Rush The Court?
(CBS) In the wake of Duke’s loss to Virginia on Thursday night, Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski spoke out against fans rushing the court after big upsets. “It’s not all fun and games when people...
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Bernstein: Collins A Risk For Northwestern
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist (CBS) The press conference will be great, no question. When Northwestern introduces longtime Duke assistant Chris Collins to run its moribund...
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Collins On Northwestern Job: ‘Everything I Was Looking For’
(CBS) Though new Northwestern basketball coach Chris Collins, currently an assistant coach for Duke, claims his focus right now is winning a National Championship with the Blue Devils, he called the...
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After Horrific Injury, Louisville Beats Duke 85-63 To Reach Final Four
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — With tears in their eyes and Kevin Ware in their hearts, there was no way Louisville was losing this game. Russ Smith scored 23, Gorgui Dieng had 14 points, 11 rebounds and four...
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Hoge: Collins Can’t Do It Alone And Northwestern Knows It
By Adam Hoge- EVANSTON (CBS) Chris Collins was introduced as Northwestern’s 24th head men’s basketball coach Tuesday. But that may have been the second most important development inside Welsh-Ryan...
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Coach K Returning To US Men’s team
(AP) Mike Krzyzewski had decided to remain coach of the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team. Krzyzewski will try to lead the Americans to a third straight gold medal, a person with knowledge of the...
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Thibodeau Named Assistant Coach For Team USA
(CBS) Two-time NBA coach of the year Tom Thibodeau will join Mike Krzyzewski’s staff for the 2016 Olympics. Thibodeau was named an assitant coach on the USA Basketball men’s national team, along with...
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Bernstein: It’s Time To Watch The Coaches Coach
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist (CBS) Middle-aged men in dark, designer suits are agitated and angry. Look at them. They are pacing, stomping, pointing, waving their arms and...
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Bernstein: March Is Better Off Without Emperors Boeheim, Krzyzewski
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist (CBS) I’m not quite sure how this happened, but the NCAA Tournament resumed Sunday. The games are all still going on, somehow, with the college...
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Reports: Marquette Hires Duke Assistant Wojciechowski
(CBS) Marquette has hired Duke assistant Steve Wojciechowski as its new basketball coach, according to multiple reports. The 37-year-old Wojciechowski has worked under Mike Krzyzewski since 1999 and...
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Bernstein: Jabari Parker Might Be Crazy
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist (CBS) If some NBA scouts are correct that Jabari Parker is leaning toward returning to Duke for a sophomore season, perhaps Parker can take a basic...
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Team USA Basketball Exhibition Coming To United Center
(CBS) USA Basketball announced Wednesday that its men’s national team will play an exhibition game against Brazil at the United Center on August 16. Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau is an assistant to head...
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Parker Meeting With Coach K Today, Will Decide Tomorrow Whether To Declare...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jabari Parker says he plans to meet with Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski when he returns to Durham, N.C., on Tuesday, and he will decide Wednesday whether to declare for the NBA draft...
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Duke’s Coach K Receives Order Of Lincoln Award
CHICAGO (CBS) — Gov. Pat Quinn Saturday bestowed the Order of Lincoln on eight people with ties, past or present, to Illinois. The first to receive it, at a noontime luncheon, was the winningest...
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Coach K: D-Rose Will Have His Opportunity To Make Team USA
(CBS) Team USA basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski indicated on an ESPN podcast with Andy Katz that Bulls point guard Derrick Rose will have every opportunity to make the Americans’ roster for the FIBA...
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Good Start For Rose In Return At Team USA Camp
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Derrick Rose says he feels old. The 25-year-old point guard’s rigorous play on Monday during the U.S. basketball team’s first practice dictated otherwise. “I was joking with Kyle...
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Bernstein: Keep NBA Stars Out Of USA Basketball
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com senior columnist (CBS) Take the kids, leave the superstars. The hideous injury suffered by Paul George in Friday’s Team USA exhibition game in Las Vegas is indeed the...
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Rose Thrilled For Return To Serious Competition At United Center
By Cody Westerlund- CHICAGO (CBS) – A day before USA Basketball’s exhibition game against Brazil at the United Center, American coach Mike Krzyzewski hadn’t yet revealed his starting lineup, saying it...
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Westerlund: Rose Flashes Brilliance, Rust In Return Home
By Cody Westerlund- CHICAGO (CBS) – The reminder of all that is beautiful about Derrick Rose’s game came with a little more than three minutes left in the third quarter of Saturday’s exhibition game...
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Reports: Rose Plans To Play Friday Against Puerto Rico
(CBS) After resting three days earlier this week, Bulls star Derrick Rose has every intention of playing for Team USA in Friday’s exhibition game against Puerto Rico. Rose told CBSSports.com’s Ken...
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Coach K On Rose: ‘He’s Full Go’
(CBS) Kyrie Irving will start at point guard Tuesday night in Team USA’s exhibition game against Slovenia, but Bulls star Derrick Rose is a “full go” for the FIBA World Cup that starts Saturday in...
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Wisch: Let’s End The Culture Of Fear Around Derrick Rose
By Dave Wischnowsky – (CBS) After taking his oath of office in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood atop Capitol Hill in D.C. and famously declared to his fellow Americans that the only...
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Emma: Chicago Programs On Quest To End NCAA Tournament Drought
By Chris Emma- CHICAGO (CBS) -- Maggiano’s banquet hall on Monday hosted the city’s five college basketball programs and one giant elephant in the room. It’s been a full decade since Chicago has...
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Bernstein: Latest Recovery A Reckoning For Rose
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com Senior Columnist (CBS) — The repair of the damaged cartilage ultimately failed, or as Tom Thibodeau put it, “It didn’t take.” To be fair, the risk of reinjuring the...
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Report: Sexual Assault Allegations Against Rasheed Sulaimon Preceded His...
(CBS) Sexual assault allegations preceded Rasheed Sulaimon’s dismissal about a month ago from Duke, and athletic department leaders that included coach Mike Krzyzewski had been aware of the complaints...
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The Bernstein Brief: Mike Krzyzewski Must Answer
By Dan Bernstein- CBSChicago.com senior columnist (CBS) “No comment” can buy Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski some time, but not much more. He brushed aside questions Monday about why it took nearly a year...
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It’s A Shot At History For Bo Ryan, Mike Krzyzewski
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Wisconsin’s Bo Ryan has spent three decades working to get to this point, leading the Badgers into the NCAA championship game with a shot at personal history on the line. Duke’s...
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Emma: Coach K Adapted To Win Duke’s 5th Championship
By Chris Emma– INDIANAPOLS, Ind. (CBS) — Standing before an empty stage at Lucas Oil Stadium’s center court, away from the nets being cut down and a momentous celebration, Mike Krzyzewski posed for a...
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Gregg Popovich To Succeed Mike Krzyzewski As Team USA Basketball Coach
(AP) Gregg Popovich, who has led the San Antonio Spurs to five NBA titles, will replace Mike Krzyzewski as the U.S. basketball coach following the 2016 Olympics. Popovich will take over starting with...
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Is Coach K The Best College Basketball Coach Ever?
By Jason Keidel Take Tyus Jones, Justise Winslow and Jahlil Okafor from your college basketball team, and say sayonara for a year or two. The program will have to recover and rebuild, retool and...
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Bernstein: 2 Coaches Set Bad Examples
By Dan Bernstein– CBSChicago.com senior columnist (CBS) One is a Chicago native who’s now a living legend, and the other is a prominent Chicago high school coach. Both acted over the weekend in ways...
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Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski Has Scolded Opponents For ‘Class’ Before
(CBS) Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski made a point to pull aside Oregon star Dillon Brooks following a long 3-pointer in the final seconds of the Ducks’ Sweet 16 elimination of the Blue Devils. Walking...
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Coach K Talks About His 36 Years Coaching At Duke
This article is sponsored by Delta Air Lines. Mike Krzyzewski talked with us as part of our “Guiding Greatness” series of one-on-one interviews with college basketball coaches, presented by Delta. In...
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Keidel: Why Does Coach K Put Up With This?
By Jason Keidel It’s time for Mike Krzyzewski to go. Just Google the (formerly) great coach, the iconic coaching lord of Tobacco Road. From The Big Lead… “Blame Coach K For Duke’s Complete Failure This...
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WATCH: Fan Essentials: Best Tournament Coach Ever
Alyssa Naimoli A ship can only be as good as its captain, and a team is only as good as its coach. The leader standing on the sideline can make or break a team in its most crucial moments. And the best...
View ArticleBernstein: Dick Vitale The Barometer For Pressure On College Basketball
By Dan Bernstein– 670TheScore.com senior columnist (670 The Score) Other commentators will have deeper and more detailed commentary on the FBI investigation that’s rocking the world of college...
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