A few more games on tap tonight in the Coaches vs. Cancer, but Friday is the motherload.

• Royce White can’t escape the drama and can’t connect with playing in a meaningful basketball game at the collegiate level. The cycle continues. {Des Moines Register}

• With national signing day (should I capitalize that?) upon us, this post will surely fall on deaf ears. {Money Players Blog}

• And more on National Signing Day, its lack of surprises and how this all pales compared to football’s big day in February. {Sporting News}

• When Kyle Whelliston writes long, it’s best to grab a bagel, curl up on the couch and dive right in. {Mid Majority}

• And here’s some more heady reading re: amateurism and education. Such good stuff. {Bylaw Blog}

• How the recruiting world, and reporting, has only gotten better and better with social media, the Internet, etc. {Louisville Courier-Journal}

• Would you look at that: UConn nabbed a top-100 recruit. {ESPN.com}

• Good read on a man with a lot of power that you probably know very little about. {Sports Business Journal}

• Doug Collins and Thad Matta are chatting each other up about Evan Turner. {PhillyBurbs.com}