Which one of you did this? I have my suspicions...

"Sources close to the situation told ESPN.com that Maccabi Bazan Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Super League will announce Thursday in Israel that Fine has been hired as a basketball consultant to the team, which is owned by Florida-based businessman Jeffrey Rosen."

Never a dull moment!

Very interesting article about the recruitment of Nerlens Noel. He clearly has some people in his ear giving bad advice, trying to take advantage of him. The most concerning part of the article to me as a fan comes at the end where it says that his basketball development has stagnated.

Deadspin waxes on the Cuse "drug scandal" and how ridiculous the media and NCAA are being. It's a decent read that is pretty firmly planted in reality.

Luke Winn doesn't even talk about the team's play, instead addressing the Nike Hyper Elite Platinum mess. In the process he links to TNIAAM and also gives a photo credit. Nice. I think that's the 2nd time he's referenced our favorite site - at least he knows where to go to get the scoop (heh) on the team. He also has a scathing opinion of the dystopian college basketball universe that Nike is attempting to create. Solid read, he keeps it interesting.

Bobby Davis and Mike Lang have hired Gloria Allred to sue Syracuse University. And just a day after Cuse ascends to #1.

This should be interesting. It's an hour long. On twitter Whitlock says, "Tomaselli says he believes Schwarz leaked his story to Post-Standard." For those keeping score at home, pretty sure that's what Whitlock hypothesized the other day - his conspiracy theory was that Schwarz leaked it to the P-S so P-S could report on 3rd accuser and free up ESPN to drop the tape. As we all know by know, of course, Schwarz put Tomaselli in contact with Bobby Davis. I'm sure this comes up in the interview. And it just continues to boggle my mind at how inappropriate it was - especially before Tomaselli had gone to police.

"You would be hard pressed to say that the thing was investigated the way that it should have been in 2005," Fitzpatrick said. "As we all know, the complaining witness had an audio tape that corroborated a lot of what he has to say. I find it unusual that the kid didn’t make it available. I didn’t see anything in the report indicating he was asked."

As if Fitzpatrick is the authority on how this should have been investigated? Roach says she called the DA's office! Further, as Nancy Cantor writes in her letter to USA Today, "We also learned that the police had been informed in 2002 of the allegations, and that the news media had also investigated the claims but could not confirm the story...Why didn't we go to the DA? In our experience, the police and the DA are synonymous. We had no reason to believe differently in this case."

Not to mention, what does Fitzpatrick mean, "I didn’t see anything in the report indicating he was asked [about the tape]." Why would the hell would SU ask, "Hey, Bobby, by any chance are you withholding some smoking gun audio of a telephone conversation that would convince pretty much everyone in America of your claims?"

SI.com - Syracuse made right decision in firing assistant coach Bernie Fine

These two SI writers are not ready to string up Coach Boeheim. In the second Seth Davis also takes a paragraph to knock DA Fitzpatrick and his lack of professionalism, comparing him to Mike Nifong from the Duke lax scandal.

And a Third Accuser who is currently 23 has come forward.

This is awful. Absolutely horrible. Apologies to Bobby Davis, Mike Lang, Danielle Roach, and Mark Schwarz for any doubts I had.

Sophomore Isaiah Whitehead from Lincoln HS is crossing Syracuse off his list, per his mother.

Two other potential recruits, Jermaine Lawrence and Chris McCullough, indicated that they would need to know more before making a decision. Which is both fair and rational.

check out what our ACC-bound brethren just did against Long Beach State. Yikes.

Curtis Brinkley having a BIG game. Had three straight plays to tie the game. First he made an impressive catch on a 20 yard wheel route. Then he went over the top for a TD. Finally, down 20-18, he caught a pass from Rivers and barely got the ball across the plane for a 2 pt conversion. Just now he leapt over his own center for a first down. Kid is playing his heart out. Proud that he's a Syracuse alum. He's been through a lot, makes me happy to see him succeeding like this tonight.

Syracuse is one of seven sites that will be featured on ESPN3. ESPNU will be covering 11 schools during the 4 hour show, but for the complete, unadulterated Cuse coverage hit up ESPN3 tomorrow night at 8pm ET.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Tanard Jackson, who served a league-imposed suspension for more than one full year, has been reinstated by the NFL.