Lew FreedmanLew Freedman

Lew Freedman is a prize-winning sportswriter and former sports editor of the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska, and The Republic in Columbus, Indiana. He also worked on the staffs of the Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer. Freedman is the author of numerous sports books, many on the White Sox, Cubs, and baseball history.

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NCAA Tournament 2012: Love Murray State, Syracuse

I hate my bracket. I zipped through it this morning dutifully filling out every game with an instant gut-reaction check mark. Didn’t analyze, didn’t agonize, just swiftly marked who I thought…Read More

On Any Given Sunday

The best advice you can give any college basketball team is to look both ways before crossing the street. If not, they might get hit by that bus speeding around the corner. The National Football League…Read More

Valpo Horizon Contender

CHICAGO–Bryce Drew bust out laughing when he was asked if all of his players must sit down and watch the video of the play they call “The Shot” at Valparaiso. No, he said. Three players…Read More

Cleveland State On Horizon In Horizon

Cleveland State had the look of someone who had been starving himself for Thanksgiving turkey for three days before the big meal. That’s how hungry the Vikings were for a victory over Butler. The…Read More

Gonzaga Here To Stay

CINCINNATI–Everybody knows who they are. And it didn’t take Twitter, texting, or the Internet to promote Gonzaga into a college basketball household name, a team you always want to check off…Read More

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Alaska Anchorage Ignores Cold, Keeps On Winning

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The snow was piled so high in the back of the parking lot outside the gym of…Read More

Indiana Back In Business

It has been a long, painful down period for Indiana University hoops, but the Hoosiers are back. The…Read More

College Names Wacky II

What is the absolute coolest school nickname in college basketball? What would you be if you could be…Read More

College Names Wacky

If you pause to think about it, so many of the college basketball programs we root for have peculiar…Read More

Butler Starting Fresh

INDIANAPOLIS–For two years running, Butler has been the darling of the NCAA tournament. Pretty…Read More

Under Radar Wisconsin

It has to gall them, but Wisconsin players just shrug when faced with the question of why the Badgers…Read More

Colleges Sell Souls If Players Paid

Paying college basketball players would be selling out the mission of universities. It would be trading…Read More

Never Quite There Northwestern

The mantra in Evanston, Illinois never changes. This is going to be the year. This is going to be the…Read More

Different World for Michigan State

Austin Thornton may not be a math major, but he knows simple arithmetic. When his eyes scanned the pre-season…Read More