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    • Rock 'n' Roll

    Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has apologized to Mick Jagger for derogatory comments he made in his 2010 memoir, “Life,” and the band has pushed their 50th reunion tour to 2013.

    “Looking back at any career you are bound to recall both the highs and the lows,” Jagger said in a new interview for an upcoming documentary, reports Rolling Stone magazine. “In the 1980s for instance, Keith and I were not communicating very well. I got very involved with the business side of the Stones, mainly because I felt no one else was interested, but it’s plain now from the book that Keith felt excluded, which is a pity. Time I reckon to move on.”

    Richards said: “Mick’s right. He and I have had conversations over the last year of a kind we have not had for an extremely long time, and that has been incredibly

    Hurleys, Kyle Anderson, St. Anthony

    JERSEY CITY, N.J. — In addition to being a Hall of Fame basketball coach, Bob Hurley is also a lifelong fan of the New York Yankees.

    And so perhaps it comes as no surprise that as his team enters the final game of its season — the final game on the New Jersey high school basketball calendar — he was drawing a comparison between his quartet of key players and the Yankees “Core Four.”

    “The Yankee core of Mariano and Jeter and Posada and Pettitte was the ‘Core Four’ for a very long time and our ‘Core Four’ during the course of the season has been Kyle [Anderson] and Jerome [Frink] and Josh Brown and Hallice [Cooke],” Hurley told SNY.tv following St. Anthony practice Monday.

    Hurleys, Kyle Anderson, Recruiting, UCLA

    JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Kyle Anderson Sr. says he believes Shabazz Muhammad will commit to UCLA next month and join his son in a powerhouse recruiting class for Bruins coach Ben Howland.

    “I think he’s going to UCLA because that’s where his parents are from and I assume they would want to get back to L.A.,” Anderson Sr. told SNY.tv during an exclusive interview Monday at St. Anthony’s practice facility, where Kyle Anderson Jr. and the unbeaten Friars (31-0) went through their final preparations before Tuesday’s New Jersey Tournament of Champions final.

    “That’s just my opinion,” added Anderson Sr., a longtime coach with the Playaz Basketball Club AAU team. “That’s not based on any conversations or any inside information.”

    As reported exclusively by SNY.tv Sunday, the 6-foot-6 Muhammad will take his final official visit to UCLA in early April and then make a decision shortly thereafter.

    Articles

    NEW YORK — It’s official.

    St. John’s freshman forward Moe Harkless will hire an agent and head to the NBA.

    “It has been my lifelong dream to play in the NBA and I am excited to have that opportunity to make the jump,” the 6-foot-8 Harkless, 18, said during a press conference at Madison Square Garden in which he was flanked by St. John’s coach Steve Lavin and his mother, Rosa. “I am grateful to my teammates and coaches at St. John’s. I would like to thank coach Lavin, our staff and my teammates for being there for me throughout the whole season.”

    Harkless said he will hire an agent and sources said he’s considering Happy Walters and Thad Foucher.

    Kentucky

    The U.S. Basketball Writers Association has selected Kentucky freshman forward Anthony Davis as the winner of the 2011-12 Oscar Robertson Trophy, annually presented to the National Player of the Year.

    The 6-10, 220-pounder from Chicago, Ill., becomes the first USBWA national player of the year from Kentucky and just the second from a Southeastern Conference school. LSU’s Pete Maravich is the only other SEC player to win the award and he won it in back-to-back seasons (1968-69 and 1969-70). Also, Davis is the second freshman to earn the honor, joining Texas’ Kevin Durant, who claimed the award in the 2006-07 season.

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    REGIONAL SEMI-FINAL GAMES

    THURSDAY, MARCH 22

     

    Time Network Site Game Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter

    Producer//Director
             
    7:15 PM ET CBS Boston I Wisconsin vs. Syracuse Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery//
            Lesley Visser
             
            Mark Wolff//Suzanne Smith
             
    7:47 PM TBS Phoenix I Louisville vs. Michigan State Kevin Harlan/Reggie Miller/Len Elmore// Marty Snider
             
            Steve Scheer//Mike Arnold
             
    after conc. I CBS Boston II Cincinnati vs. Ohio State Lundquist/Raftery// Visser
             
            Wolff/Smith
             
    after conc. I TBS Phoenix II Florida vs. Marquette Harlan/Miller/Elmore// Snider
             
            Scheer//Arnold

    Baylor

    Ohio junior guard D.J. Cooper says that Baylor and Tennessee both contacted him after his freshman season in order to persuade him to transfer, according to reports in The New York Times and CBSSports.com.

    It is a violation of NCAA rules to recruit a player before he is released from his current program, yet that’s exactly what Cooper said happened after his freshman season, when he was named MAC Freshman of the Year and led Ohio to their first NCAA Tournament victory in 27 years.

    “That [Tennessee and Baylor] was about it,” D.J. Cooper told Brett McMurphy of CBSSports.com following Ohio’s 62-56 victory over South Florida Sunday in Nashville.

    Donell Cooper, D.J.’s father, also told CBSSports.com that former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl “tried the hardest” to get his son to transfer.

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