Quick Monday tidbits/links

Some quick basketball, football info/story links

     The first football story of the preseason is up with plenty more stuff to come, and it also includes the release schedule for our previews so you will want to check that out.
     I will have a boys basketball feature most likely coming tomorrow and we might possibly have a girls hoops feature a little later in the week before we dive headlong into football for the next couple months. Plus, the Mets restored order for at least a day and the weather is nice, so not bad for a Monday. Although, Northwestern’s football season is looking pretty depressing on the horizon. It can’t be good when most of the preview mags I’ve flipped through have predicted my Wildcats to finish 11th in a league known as the Big Ten.
    Here are some quick story links/notes of interest:

Former Middletown South linebacker Nick Macaluso’s new coach at Stanford is making waves already. Monmouth University fans will also remember Jim Harbaugh as the coach of the University of San Diego, which beat the Hawks 27-7 in the inaugural Gridiron Classic last year. Macaluso projects as a reserve linebacker as a redshirt freshman.
Warning: Do not sit down at a poker table for a casual game with former Christian Brothers Academy and University of Pennsylvania basketball standout Tim Begley, who now plays hoops overseas in Germany. He recently took home over $58,000 in the World Series of Poker to finish 129th out of 6,358 entries.
Early commitments, like those of Art Forst and Mike Mele from Manasquan the past two years, are getting more common.
One of the running backs from Somerville that Manasquan ate for lunch during the state playoffs recently is now in the mix as a kick returner for Rutgers.
I don’t care where Jerry Glanville is coaching, as long as I never have to listen to him be a commentator on an NFL game ever again.
Essential reading for NFL fans.
I know there are blogs on pretty much everything these days, but prison basketball?
Couldn’t say I was too psyched about this as a Jets fan.
Finally, you know the new ESPN fantasy commercials where the fake owners have a ceremony to honor the players who helped them win the title? The actor thanking Jacksonville’s Maurice Jones-Drew in one segment is Matt Donnelly, the younger brother of former Red Bank Regional basketball star Mark Donnelly, the school’s all-time leading scorer.