When the Pittsburgh men’s basketball team starts practice next week to defend its Big East tournament championship, Levance Fields, the heart and soul of the Panthers, will have to watch from the sideline.
Fields, a 5-foot-10, 190-pound senior point guard from Brooklyn, is still rehabilitating the left foot he broke against Dayton last December. Fields returned to action Feb. 15 against Marquette, but he still had surgery in August. After that procedure, Fields contracted an infection above his foot that slowed his recovery. The bone is still healing, and Fields hasn’t been able to participate in individual workouts or pickup games the way his teammates have. He is expected to be ready in time for the start of the regular season in November.
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Meanwhile, in other Big East news, Georgetown got a commitment from Nate Lubick, a 6-8, 227-pound junior PF from Southborough (MA) St. Mark’s, according to Jeff Goodman. Goodman reports that Georgetown hasn’t had an American-born white player in four years.
“At first, after Georgetown offered, it was like, ‘Georgetown doesn’t offer white kids,’” Lubick told Goodman. “I thought about it a little bit and after I visited the second time and was with their players, I just said, ‘Who cares.’
“I went on a bunch of visits and none of the teams were anywhere nearly as close as Georgetown,” Lubick added. “It’s crazy. They all hang out together like a family and couldn’t care less about the white-black thing and that’s what made me so comfortable. I didn’t even pay attention to it.”
Goodman also reports that Providence received a commitment from 6-5, 195-pound sophomore G Kyle Wright, who played at Brewster and was a freshman last year at Stony Brook. He was recently named MVP of the Hartford Pro-Am. Providence also picked up 6-foot-8, 205-pound big Detroit Community School senior big man James Still.
lengend / October 9, 2008
Along with that observation by Lubick and Goodman, I hope he observed how many college coaches in D-1 are black, so when he becomes a GM or AD like Danny Ferry or Steve Kerr that he gives good opportunities to those same black teammates. I hope he grows up to see imbalances across the board and not in the manner like those only looking for justice in the OJ case.
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Adam Zagoria / October 9, 2008
I’m not really sure what you’re saying here. Who is going to be a GM, Nate Lubick or Jeff Goodman? Why wouldn’t either one give opportunities to black players or coaches? I think we all can recognize injustices when they occur. The fact that OJ got away with a brutal double-murder –one which he was found guilty of in the civil case and admitted to in a book– certainly ranks near the top of the list.
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lengend / October 12, 2008
What a fraud.I f this is suppose to be a blog and there was no profanity in my posting why take it down because you dont agree with the comments? Again you exhibit your inability to be professional and accept criticism similar to how you feel justified in dishing it out. You are just showing your true color time and time again.
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