In the Offseason, You Get Link Dumps

OK, it's the offseason, and Marco and I hate recruiting, but we'll still find stuff to post about every few days or so, so keep us in your favorites. For now, I've piled up a few links that have been sent my way over the past few days and will now forcibly eject them onto your monitors.

Hansbrough is transferring!!!! OK, it's younger brother Ben Hansbrough, heading from Mississippi State to Notre Dame. [ESPN.com]

STF friend of the program Jacob E. Osterhout (of CBS College Sports Going Mad fame) chimes in on Johnny Dawkins heading to Stanford as well as other college related goodies over at his weekly column for SI on Campus (SI on Campus)

Our Big East correspondent Ted Bauer got a big interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. The anchor waxes poetic about baseball and sports movies amongst other things, but of most interest to us, he names a certain 1995 college basketball game as his favorite in-person experience. [ESPN the Magazine]

Stet Sports calls Grievis Vasquez the Telemundo version of Gilbert Arenas - with all that entails, I suppose. Anyway, General Grievis will be back at Maryland next year. Good choice, methinks. [Stet Sports]

After a contentious, up-and-down '07-'08 season, the folks in Lexington are starting to see what Billy Gillispie brings to the table. [A Sea of Blue]

Am I the only one who read this Quin Snyder-falls-on-hard-times article as a comedy piece? [ESPN.com]