Clemson's Hendrix Hall evacuated for bomb threat

Right now at Clemson University, per several of my friends, Hendrix Hall has been evacuated due to a bomb threat.

This one on February 4 is the second time in less than a week that the building has been evacuated.

East Tennessee State to re-add football

Per a vote by the East Tennessee State University Student Government Association, the university will re-add a football team.

The president of the university, Brian Noland, approves of it. Per the @BringBackBucFB Twitter feed, the school would hire a coach in May this year, play a JV schedule in 2014, and in 2015 would start a full schedule.

ETSU was kicked out of the Southern Conference after earlier dropping its football team.

The Citadel cashes in on halftime heave

I was at the Elon-The Citadel game this afternoon, and Marshall Harris, a guard for The Citadel, made about a 55 or 60 footer at halftime to cut the Bulldogs deficit to five. The Citadel lost 70-66, but this was one of the longest shots of the year so far. Have a look and watch from The Citadel's YouTube.

Kings very close to moving to Seattle

The Sacramento Kings are within days of moving to Seattle. An ownership group led by Chris Hansen will buy the team.

Chris Daniels of KING-TV in Seattle says: BREAKING: Source tells me deal on Kings-to-#Seattle to be announced soon, perhaps as early as Monday/Tuesday. #NBA

The Kings would play in Key Arena in Seattle for a couple seasons until the new arena is built.  

Marc Stein of ESPN, very reputable NBA reporter: just going online now: Maloofs have struck deal to sell 65 percent of Kings to Chris Hansen group in Seattle for $525 million, sources say.

Stan Musial dies

St. Louis Cardinals great Stan Musial has died. He was 92 years old. He died surrounded by his family in a St. Louis hospital at 5:45pm CT Saturday.

Stan Musial had 3630 hits: 1815 at home, 1815 on the road. He was one of the best baseball players ever. He was a 22-time all-star with the Cardinals.

Musial had 475 home runs in his career, and had a .331 batting average in his career. His career was from 1941-63. He won 3 MVPs in his career. Very sad news.

49ers WR investigated for sexual assault

From the San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco police have interviewed 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree about allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in the city following the team’s victory last weekend, The Chronicle has learned.

The alleged attack occurred at an unnamed hotel early on Jan. 13, hours after the team’s victory over the Green Bay Packers at Candlestick Park.

The incident is being investigated by the Special Victims Unit, whose detectives have interviewed Crabtree with his lawyer present. Crabtree has agreed to make himself available for possible further interviews about an assault.

If the Big South tournament started today

I feel that the Big South is getting undercovered so far. They play very exciting basketball, and the teams in there can play.

Wednesday night was an interesting night, with all the home teams winning. Charleston Southern defeating UNC-Asheville on Wednesday night. Gardner-Webb won on a buzzer beater last night against Coastal Carolina. That made the top 10 on SportsCenter, briefly as the #1 play. Winthrop beat Presbyterian, and Radford beat Longwood, while VMI beat Campbell. High Point beat Liberty.

Here are the brackets if the season ended today. The conference tournament is in Conway this year at Coastal Carolina's new arena, the HTC Center. I will update these frequently. I will also do this for the SoCon.

Tuesday, March 5 - First Round
GAME 1: 4S UNC Asheville vs. 5N Liberty, TBA
GAME 2: 3N Campbell vs. 6S Presbyterian, TBA
GAME 3: 4N Radford vs. 5S Winthrop, TBA
GAME 4: 3S Coastal Carolina vs. 6N Longwood, TBA
Thursday, March 7 - Quarterfinals
GAME 5: 1N VMI vs. Winner Game 1, TBA
GAME 6: 2S Gardner-Webb vs. Winner Game 2, TBA
GAME 7: 1S Charleston Southern vs. Winner Game 3, TBA
GAME 8: 2N High Point vs. Winner Game 4, TBA


Saturday, March 9 - Semifinals
GAME 9: Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, TBA (ESPN3)
GAME 10: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8, TBA (ESPN3)
Sunday, March 10 - Championship
GAME 11: Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 10, 12:00pm (TV: ESPN2)