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VIRGINIA ICON BENNETT HIRED TO HELP NBA LAKERS WITH DRAFT

  Some opinion, mostly fact  The Los Angeles Lakers have hired  TONY BENNETT  as advisor for the 2026 NBA draft in June. He will report  directly to GM  ROB PELINKA , and already there is  speculation UVA’s all-time winner (364-136) “is going to  stick around for more than just the draft.” You will recall  he quit just prior to the start of the 2024-25 season, saying  he couldn’t coach college hoops any more. IT HAS BECOME almost too easy for Duke, which led  47-30 at halftime Monday night at N.C. State which  opened in a zone defense, something the Blue Devils  haven’t seen very often and reacted with a customary ho- hum … no big deal It was tied at 18 midway through the opening 20 minutes.  “This is the first time State has used the zone and, to this  point, you have to say it has been successful,” said  BOB  CARPENTER , working the game on ESPN with former  UVA standout  CORY ALEXANDER . So...
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NETWORK, GAME OFFICIALS HELD UP THEIR END IN OLYMPICS MEN'S HOCKEY FINAL

  If there was ever a game that didn’t require TV play by play or analysis, Sunday’s gold medal game in men’s hockey was it. And, to its credit, NBC’s veteran crew of   KENNY ALBERT ,   ED OLCZYK   and   BRIAN  BOUCHER   resisted talking too much. From the outset, the U.S. and Canada gave us a clinic in  non-stop action that clearly wasn’t for the faint of heart. And, thankfully, the game officials (like NBC) let them   play  … without, for the most part, interfering. Gosh  knows, there was enough high sticking, roughing,  interference, boarding, hooking – you name it – to last a  lifetime. But NHL referees working the game,  CHRIS ROONEY and  GORD DWYER , swallowed their whistles … which  permitted an incredible pace of play … that also wasn’t  encumbered by fighting (which isn’t allowed in the  Winter Games, subject to a one-game suspension). They called a hooking infraction against Canada’s...
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SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING BETWEEN VCU, SAINT LOUIS WAS ALL IT WAS

  Briefly Told (at least that’s the plan … ALWAYS subject  to change) ... Brawl? What brawl? Fisticuffs? Get serious! Check it out. From replays seen on the internet, if any  punches were thrown in the final seconds of Saturday’s  VCU-St. Louis basketball game, they were done in  private … and no one was hurt. Mostly, it was a bunch of guys acting like they wanted to  hit someone, nothing more … nothing like last year’s  nastiness in the stands between VCU and St. Louis  fanatics ... sorry ... fans .. . when security did virtually  nothing to break it up.      This time the only participant to worry about was the St.  Louis coach  JOSH SCHERTZ … a beefy, overweight …  OK, fat … man who came running onto the floor, trying  to break the whole thing up … and looking like a ready- made, serious candidate for a heart attack. This time security appeared quickly and, as a unit, placed  itself between the Rams ...
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