James Madison’s NCAA berth: the best photos
The best quote from James Madison’s CAA tournament victory Monday night wasn’t hard to identify. “Like LeBron James said when he won his first championship, it’s about damn time,” forward Rayshawn...
View ArticleJMU star quotes LeBron James: ‘It’s about damn time’
The biggest surprise of this week in D.C. sports isn’t the Caps’ collapse, or the Redskins’ inaction, or the fact that Mike Wise wrote a column on the team’s name. No, the biggest surprise is how many...
View ArticleJMU’s Ray Goins on checkers, Instagram and Cleveland
All I do anymore is blog about James Madison University athletics, so I can hardly avoid the news that forward Ray Goins — the same guy who screamed out that LeBron quote during a postgame interview —...
View ArticleJames Madison coach Matt Brady has slept seven hours in three days
The great thing about having the CAA title game on the Monday of championship week is your school gets days and days of media coverage and national attention, before the major conferences take over....
View ArticleWhy Matt Brady brought Mike Deane to JMU
The latest in my attempt to become The Post’s JMU beat writer…. In Mike Deane’s first season as a Division I head coach, he arrived at Siena, which was led by a senior point guard named Matt Brady....
View ArticleJames Madison’s Matt Brady rap
Please do watch this video of a pair of James Madison Dukes using Coach Matt Brady’s mannerisms and sideline commands to create their own airport rap. It comes from a three-and-a-half minute video...
View ArticleThe JMU fan with the purple painted chest
If you follow James Madison basketball — or just enjoy watching NCAA play-in games between 16 seeds — you likely saw the skinny, purple-painted, fist-pumping JMU fan pictured here on Wednesday night....
View ArticleGeorge Mason’s new basketball court
This is the summer of basketball court design changes for mid-major schools in the greater D.C. area. Seriously, that’s the official name of this summer. Look it up. George Washington changed, adopting...
View ArticleJMU’s new basketball court
The problem with my repeated non-serious claims to be The Washington Post’s JMU beat writer last spring is that I now get aggrieved e-mails from fans when major JMU news breaks and I fail to respond...
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