While it is normally male athletes in the news for their bad behavior, one of the members of the fairer sex is in a bit of a legal bind today. Diana Taurasi, the WNBA star who made a name for herself after 4 stellar years at U Conn, has been charged with DUI. Taurasi, who plays for the Phoenix Mercury, was stopped by police at 2:30 Thrusday morning and failed sobriety tests. She was then given a blood test and released.

CSU Men's Basketball/Packy Hyland, Sr., Golf Outing Set For June 1
Event Renamed To Honor Longtime Booster

When the Cleveland State men's basketball program holds its annual golf outing on June 1 at the Westwood Country Club in Rocky River, they will do so with a special purpose in mind. CSU men's basketball head coach Gary Waters announced that the tournament has been renamed, the Packy Hyland, Sr. Honorary Golf Outing.

The outing, which benefits the Viking Summer School Education Fund, honors Hyland for his contributions to the program.

"When I returned to coach at Cleveland State three years ago, Packy was one of the first people to come up to me and ask me what he could do to help this program," Waters said. "Since that time, he has always been there for us whenever we needed help and he was a driving force behind this tournament being so successful last year."

With the outing less than two weeks away, space is still available to play. Persons interested in playing can download the form off of the men's basketball page at CSUVikings.com or by contacting assistant coach Larry DeSimpelare at (216) 687-4816 or via email at L.DeSimpelare@csuohio.edu.

Cleveland State University men's basketball coach Gary Waters announced
Thursday that CSU has signed two junior college student-athletes to national letters of intent to attend CSU and play basketball for the school beginning this fall. Signing with the Vikings are Lance Janes (Lithonia Springs, GA / Aiken Tech) and Jared Cunningham (Oregon City, OR / Fort Smith). The acquisitions of the all-American point guard and power forward will help to fill voids on the team left by graduating seniors.

Joining James and Cunningham this fall will be guard Anthony Wells (Shaker Heights, OH) and forward Kevin Anderson (Irving, TX/Southern Idaho JC) who signed with the program during the fall.

Waters said:

"The addition of both Lance and Jared to the Viking basketball family will help us to offset the losses caused by the graduation of our five seniors. They will allow us to play the kind of pressure defensive basketball that I have been longing to play here but only used in spots because of our limited depth."

College basketball had all eyes on the University of Kentucky this morning who nabbed John Calipari from Memphis to take over the prestigious job today. Calipari said to reporters that its a dream job but don't expect to see instant results at the school:

"This is pretty heady stuff for me,"This is a dream … I could not believe the environment. I do not walk on water. I do not have a magic wand," he said. "When we get it right, you notice we're No. 1 in the country … and we're playing in Final Fours."

Here is the video of the press conference:

The Big Ten will be represented in the Final Four by Michigan State as they defeated Big East champ Louisville64-52 today in the Midwest Regional in Indianapolis. The Spartans were led by Goran Sutton's huge game as he scored 19 points, 10 rebounds, and 4 assists. Tom Izzo's men want have to travel very far as the Final Four will be held in Detroit this year which is only a an hour and half drive from East Lansing.

Here are video highlights of the game from earlier this afternoon:

Villanova won a thrilling game 78-76 over Big East rival Pittsburgh to advance to the Final 4. Scottie Reynolds scored a basket with less than a second to go breaking the the tie and breaking the hearts of the city Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh had just tied the game with 5.6 seconds left and thought they were going to send it into overtime before the last second heroics.

The Big East, which proved it was the best league in the nation this year, has advanced the first two teams to the championship round of the NCAA Tournament. The Big East can advance a third team if Louisville can beat Michigan State in their match-up tomorrow.

Leading the way for Wildcats, who had trailed late but rallied for the win after installing a trapping defense, was Dwayne Anderson who scored 17 points and grabbed 6 rebounds in the win. Reynolds added 15 for the victors. Sam Young of Pittsburgh scored 28 in the losing effort.