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The Internet continues to unearth ways to cover men’s college basketball recruiting.
Recruiting analyst Marc Maggard hosts an Internet talk show each Tuesday night, accessible nationwide via onairsports.com.
On Tuesday, Josh Childress, a 6-foot-5 guard from Lakewood, Calif., and Aaron Miles, 6-0 from Portland, Ore., took part in the chat.
Childress told Maggard he still was considering KU, Stanford, Arizona, UCLA and North Carolina. He’s to visit KU with Santa Ana, Calif., center Jamal Sampson for Late Night With Roy Williams on Oct. 13. Miles, who is considering KU, UCLA, Arizona and Duke, told Maggard he’s impressed the Jayhawks have recruited him the longest of any school.
Miles has a 3.5 grade point average and scored 1,020 on the SAT. He says he’ll make all his visits in October.
Also on Tuesday, recruiting experts Bob Gibbons and Jeremy Tiers (bobgibbonsreport.rivals.com) and Greg Swaim (fastbreakrecruiting.rivals.com) held recruiting chats on their sites.
Bozeman update: Cedric Bozeman, a 6-5 point guard from Santa Ana, Calif., Tuesday told PacWest Hoops he’s down to two schools UCLA and Florida. Bozeman committed to UCLA last fall, then decommitted early in the spring. He has yet to qualify academically. Recent rumors that Bozeman was being recruited by KU were incorrect.
Full speed ahead for Brooke: Luke Axtell, as reported Monday, cannot appear at a planned CD signing from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at Hastings.
The NCAA says he cannot market his recording A River Runs Dry until after basketball season.
Axtell’s sister, Brooke, however, will have a signing for her CD Paper Doll at that time Saturday. She also is scheduled to perform her music live at the signing session.
Why can’t Axtell promote and sell his own CD?
The NCAA is intent on preventing student-athletes from marketing any commercial product even if it is their own product.
In the early 1990s, a UNLV basketball player tried to sell T-shirts, explaining he was a business major. The NCAA shut that project down, saying Rebels fans would buy the product because he was a member of the team.
A Northwestern football player years ago was allowed to appear in a movie and keep his eligibility as long as his name was not on movie promotional materials.
Don’t do it, it’s a violation: Somebody called the J-W to suggest copies of Axtell’s CD be “bootlegged” throughout Kansas, like liquor in the Prohibition era.
Not guaranteed: The Charlotte Hornets, it was announced Monday, signed Kansas City Knights territorial pick Darrin Hancock. The Hornets’ contract is not guaranteed, meaning Hancock has to try out for the team this fall. So he still could be a member of Kevin Pritchard’s ABA team this winter. Hancock hit 46.3 percent from three-point range last season for Fort Wayne in the CBA, the second best mark in the league.
Orientation: KU athletics director Bob Frederick held freshman orientation for Jayhawk newcomers in all sports Tuesday night at Hadl Auditorium. Coaches also were in attendance. Included among the newcomers were: Bryant Nash, KU’s 6-6 frosh swingman from Carrollton, Texas, plus Chris Zerbe, a 6-5 walk on from Hutchinson CC.
