The “Say Hey Kid” has moved on to that great outfield in the sky. He was, without question, one of the best to play the game of baseball. Crazy that we lose him and Jerry West within the same week.

Article drips with venom and hate and maybe driven by a touch of jealousy. It just highlights how much hate and blind adherence to failed narratives exists in the Dem party.

I spoke to Dave Popkin yesterday. He will be doing a 2 part Q&A with Zack.

Please list your questions.

The interview is for Wed at 1PM.

Our June 5th gathering at Magnify Brewing was a tremendous success and we managed to sell out the limited addition Championship Pils quickly. Onward Setonia has asked Magnify to brew another batch and we just received word that a second, and final, run will be available for sale around the 1st of July.

The new supply of the Championship Pils will be very limited, therefore our Guardian subscribers will be offered the first opportunity to purchase the final edition.

We’ll be emailing details on how to purchase our Championship Pils to active Guardian subscribers on June 24th, if you're considering a Guardian subscription please sign up to be eligible for this offering.

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Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff Writer

Oswin Erhunmwunse, the No. 31 college basketball recruit in the 2025 ESPN 100, is reclassifying into the 2024 class and will enroll at Providence for the 2024-25 season, he announced Monday.

Although a reclassification was always on the table, Erhunmwunse, who had originally committed to the Friars in January, didn't make it official until this week.

"Oswin is an elite talent, and we are excited that he will be joining our team this season," coach Kim English said. "Oswin has the ability to score the ball in a number of ways and is dominant on the defensive side of the ball. Most importantly, he has an infectious personality and he will be great fit for the culture of our program."

A 6-foot-10 center from Putnam Science Academy (Connecticut), Erhunmwunse is ranked as ESPN's No. 2 center in the country. He played for BABC on the Adidas 3SSB grassroots circuit this spring, averaging 9.6 points, 10.6 rebounds and 3.0 blocks and shooting 57.4% from the field.

Erhunmwunse, who was born in Nigeria, also participated in the prestigious NBPA Top 100 camp earlier this month. In nine games, he averaged 12.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.2 blocks, shooting better than 67% from the field.

English rebuilt his 2024-25 roster mostly via the portal this spring, adding Bensley Joseph (Miami), Jabri Abdur-Rahim (Georgia), Christ Essandoko (Saint Joseph's) and Wesley Cardet Jr. (Chicago State) to a returning group led by Bryce Hopkins and Jayden Pierre.

Erhunmwunse joins Ryan Mela in the Friars' freshman class, while his reclassification means Providence's lone commitment in the 2025 class is five-star wing Jamier Jones.

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This is like the small calendar when Seaver passed away

According to sources. Pitino fingerprints all around that.

David Cobb & Cameron Salerno

Jun 13

Loser: Seton Hall disintegrates after NIT title​

Congratulations on the NIT title, now go rebuild your roster from scratch. That's the reward coach Shaheen Holloway got after guiding his alma mater to a 25-12 record and thrilling NIT championship win over a 32-win Indiana State team. While some of the Pirates' numerous departures were relatively insignificant, losing starters Kadary Richmond, Dre Davis and Dylan Addae-Wusu to the portal stings. Richmond is an especially painful loss as the multi-faceted point guard was a first-team All-Big East performer. It will take a Herculean effort for SHU to find adequate replacements at this point in the cycle. – Cobb

Not sure how I came across this, okay its Friday and I am watching the clock till I get to leave work.... Anyway, I always thought that Shaheen coined "What they going to say now" and it was stolen by the Warriors, but now I am thinking Isaiah might have back in 2016?


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Anybody know how this phrase became popular with the program?

perhaps no other date in modern sports history compares. Hard to believe now that was 30 years ago.

Guess he had a plan B after all. Now that there are little to no rules about roster size I can't bitch about how Oregon and LSU always seemed to have room for everyone.

By Phil Mushnick

Ever see a house fire that emits no smoke?

Perhaps, however, you could see this smokeless fire from miles and weeks away.

From the moment $700 million international super-duper star Shohei Ohtani’s former pal, Ippei Mizuhara was busted for running up a Godzilla-sized sports gambling debt of at least $17 million with Ohtani’s money, executives in the banking, lending and brokerage businesses reached out to warn of a coverup-on-the-come.

In April, MLB quietly announced Ohtani has been exonerated. He had nothing to do with it, thus we were expected to believe Mizuhara was unilaterally granted millions of dollars in credits from bookies without their knowledge or even passing interest that his collateral was independent of his close friendship with Ohtani.

Ohtani’s “Play ball!” clearance by MLB triggered another round of “What the hey!” missives from those far more familiar with finance law than I, a mere home mortgage borrower.

One such contact is a senior executive and compliance officer/investigator — a button-down straight-shooter — in a large East Coast financial firm who asked for anonymity.

From the start — well before Mizuhara pleaded guilty to theft in a California courtroom — this fellow predicted that MLB would issue Ohtani a pass — one of those Rob Manfred Era automatic intentional passes. Following MLB’s exoneration of Ohtani, he continued:

“This is a completely obvious coverup for MLB’s biggest star.

“Whenever you transfer a cash amount larger than $10,000 in the U.S. banking system, it triggers a SARs — Suspicious Activity Report. This must be reviewed, reported and documented by multiple layers of bank management, from the branch system to the compliance department and even the legal department when there are multiple instances.

“These are must-comply matters.

“These are then required to be filed with FinCEN [the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network run by the U.S. Treasury] whenever fraudulent activities are even suspected.

“The pattern here screams ‘Fraud!’ Red flags everywhere.

“Or are we to believe that there were, say, 34 transfers of $500,000 [totaling $17 million] each to a known bookmaker or bookmakers and no one noticed? Impossible!”

Or are we to believe that the bookies waited until Mizuhara owed millions before trying to collect? What was his settle-up number, $5 million paid in $20 bills??

But MLB has already made its call: “After further review, the superstar is safe!”

Seton Hall Pirates​

Departed or expected to depart: Kadary Richmond (15.7 PPG), Al-Amir Dawes (15.0 PPG), Dre Davis (15.0 PPG), Jaden Bediako (8.1 PPG), Elijah Hutchins-Everett (3.5 PPG), Jaquan Sanders (2.7 PPG), Malachi Brown (1.3 PPG), Sadraque NgaNga (1.1 PPG), Arda Ozdogan (0.7 PPG), JaQuan Harris

In limbo: None

Expected to return: Isaiah Coleman (5.4 PPG), David Tubek (0.8 PPG), Dylan Addae-Wusu (8.6 PPG)

Incoming transfers: Chaunce Jenkins (15.9 PPG at Old Dominion), Zion Harmon (14.6 PPG at Bethune-Cookman), Yacine Toumi (10.8 PPG at Evansville), Prince Aligbe (4.7 PPG at Boston College), Scotty Middleton (4.4 PPG at Ohio State), Garwey Dual (3.3 PPG at Providence), Emmanuel Okorafor (2.4 PPG at Louisville), Gus Yalden (redshirt at Wisconsin)

Incoming freshmen: Godswill Erheriene (four-star), Jahseem Felton (three-star), Assane Mbaye (NR)

Head coach: Shaheen Holloway

Shared this on Treasure trove last week. Thought I would share here to energize fanbase with our potential. And remember our older players.

The current roster’s top 150 247 composite player rankings.

Garwey Dual 38

Scotty Middleton 50

Zion Harmon 63

Isaiah Coleman 114

Prince Aligbe 127

Gus Yalden 128

Jahseen Felton 145

Godswill Erheriene 146

Pretty impressive list on paper. Plus we have two foreign players that typically aren’t ranked by 247. And a 2025/26 player who committed that probably will be top 150 as well in Payday.


Updated Former players and commits ( i only went back to 2004ish )

Isaiah Whitehead 14

Jeff Robinson 40

Angel Delgado 44

Ike Obiagu 61

Larry Davis 61

Keon Lawrence 72

TT 75

Jordan Theodore 77

Myles Cale 82

Brandon Weston 83

Herb Pope 84

Tray Jackson 85

Myles Powell 89

Justin Cerasoli 89

Kadary Richmond 90

Bryce Aiken 95

Derrick Gordon 102

Sadraque Nganga 104

John Garcia 107

Al Dawes 113

Jared Sina 115

Dre Davis 117

Brian Laing 118

Eugene Harvey 126

Aquile Carr 128

Jamar Nutter 131

Grant Billmeier 135

Tyler Powell 135

Khadeen Carrington 142

Brandon Mobley 144

Jevon Thomas 145

Part 4 of our Jerry Carino interview

By Colin Rajala

Trove: In the new college athletics landscape, Seton has lost program stalwarts like Tyrese Samuel, Kadary Richmond and Dre Davis to the portal – how would you like to see Seton Hall compete in the current landscape?

Carino: I’ll tell you what Holloway’s plans are, and they make sense. He wants to have a nucleus together for two years. He would love to have them together for three plus years, but that might be asking the impossible. If you can get him the right group of guys to stay together for two years, which is not an impossible ask, they can be positioned for something big.

If there's the buy in and the talent level is right, Holloway’s ability to wring out the sponge could pay big dividends if you give him two years. They came pretty close to that this year and that was just with Holloway getting started and them catching up in NIL.

So, let's just say with the group they have this year, most or many of the key guys come back in 2025-26, that’s the two-year cycle is what Sha really needs to hit it out the park. It's going to require some resources, maybe not a gazillion dollars though – especially if he’s rotating 10 deep and individual stats are modest as a result. So I think that's feasible for Seton Hall if they keep building the NIL war chest.

Can Seton Hall's war chest for NIL enable Holloway to keep a good nucleus together for two years? That remains to be seen, the key is you have to keep those guys that excel in the system. You have to keep Middleton and Coleman and Dual together for two years. That’s really going to be the key. If Seton Hall can do that, then they have a chance to do something special.

It took Holloway three years at Saint Peter’s. The Elite Eight run was his fourth year at St. Peter’s, but it was the third year of having that nucleus together. Now that was with a modest level of talent that he coached up. Give him two years with more talent and you could see a better version of this past season.

Also, instead of going out and getting high priced one-year guys every year, I know Sha would rather get guys who aren't as sought after that he sees something in that he can keep together for two years. That's what he's really wants to do and that's how you win here under these circumstances. I know it’s easy to be pessimistic about your situation in high major basketball right now, but Seton Hall has the coach, the biggest piece. Look at these other places, all the money in the world can’t help you if your coach sucks. Indiana has so much money, Memphis is oozing money, but they stink. They stink not because they don’t have talent, not because of resources, not because they don’t have facilities, they have coaches who don’t know what they are doing.

Here, you have a guy who really knows what he’s doing. He’s an alum and loyal to the place. I didn’t ever think he was going to Louisville. I don't care if he did a Zoom with them or a phone call just to talk to them and say, ‘Look, I'm not interested, but thanks for thinking of me.’ He was never going there. He's a super loyal, talented and relatively young coach. That’s about as good of a fit as you’re going to have at Seton Hall. So I don't think it's impossible or bleak.

By Colin Rajala

Trove: It’s frustrating that there are more questions than answers at this point, but whenever I’m feeling that way, I try and take the perspective of the coaching staff and think about how hard they are working to get a plan in place to maximize the talent.

Carino: Last year in late September Sha told me he was really excited about this team. That’s when the light kind of went on for me. They won 25 games, sure it took them a while to get on the tracks, but the raw material was there and he saw it in the offseason, in the summer. Now more than ever, it’s about reading the coaches and it’s too early to have a read with summer sessions yet to begin.

This is on ESPN+ with a long list of profiles.

I will just post the order.

1. Duke Blue Devils​

2. Rutgers Scarlet Knights​

3. Alabama Crimson Tide​

4. Baylor Bears​

5. North Carolina Tar Heels​

6. Arizona State Sun Devils​

7. Arkansas Razorbacks​

8. UConn Huskies​

9. Miami Hurricanes​

10. LSU Tigers​

11. Michigan State Spartans​

12. Missouri Tigers​

13. Georgia Bulldogs​

14. Texas Longhorns​

15. Kansas Jayhawks​

16. Georgetown Hoyas
17. Arizona Wildcats
18. Creighton Bluejays
19. Notre Dame Fighting Irish
20. TCU Horned Frogs
21. Purdue Boilermakers
22. Syracuse Orange
23. Maryland Terrapins
24. UCLA Bruins
25. Auburn Tigers

It will be truly interesting to see how this trade/swap plays out over the year.

It's a huge win for us if either Dual or Middleton reaches their potential and stay 2 years.

I was devastated when KR and Dre left, but now I do not feel so bad. Dual and Middletown both have clear All Big East talent.