Day three of the one-on-one interviews, and I'm happy to bring you Nolan. He was on the team bus on the way to the airport to fly off to Indianapolis when he did this interview. There were a few sentences I could not understand him on due to the noise all around him. If Duke is going to take it easy in prep for Saturday's game, it wasn't evident over ... Read More

CHJ's one-on-one interviews with a player from each Final Four team continues. Today, it's Jonnie West, the son of The Logo and participant in the greatest college basketball home videos to hit the Internet. I didn't want to focus too much on his father and base the majority of the interview around that because that's a story you'll see plenty as the teams land tonight in Indianapolis. CHJ: It’s pretty cool ... Read More

Leading up to the Final Four I’ll be giving you a brief interview with a lesser-known player from each team. Someone who doesn’t see as much press written about them but is important/unique to each team in a certain way. I’m starting with one of the smartest players in the game, Draymond Green. Green is deceivingly good with the basketball, though Tom Izzo doesn’t let his ego get too big. ... Read More

Yeah, I'm humbled and thrilled to be able to deliver what I believe is the first interview with Jim Nantz on a blog. Jim is a stud. He was halfway done with this interview while checking into the airport this morning. He could've just ended the conversation there, but insisted he'd call me back to finish up after he went through security. I'm not sure he's ever been as candid ... Read More

I spoke with Jon Jaques and Louis Dale by phone from their hotel room in Jacksonville on Friday night. Neither is nearly as content as you'd expect them to be after ending the Ivy League's 12-year drought in The Tournament.

Dan Steir is one of the men responsible for putting so much basketball on at ESPN. Though CBS has taken over the sport (largely) for the remainder of the year, I got a hold of Dan last week to talk about, well, his job. He’s one of the big names in the business, yet most don’t know what he does. Unfortunately, because of how much I've been swamped with writing ... Read More

It was a spectacular opening day of games for CBS and the NCAA Tournament. In fact, it's the best one I've ever seen and is now being regarded as the most exhilarating first day in Tourney history. I spoke with two of the men who are responsible with projecting the games all across the country, the men who make the decisions on what games you see when: CBS Sports president Sean ... Read More

Varnado is, dare I say, still underrated? At the very least, he's under-appreciated and underexposed. I got a few minutes on the phone with Varnado yesterday, and he was forthcoming about a few things and tight-lipped on a few others.

The last team to head back into the locker room as winners, the Bryant Bulldogs, finally rid themselves of A Season Popular for All the Wrong Reasons in Staten Island last night. Bryant got into the W column with its 53-51 over 4-24 Wagner. The Bulldogs won thanks to freshman Raphael Jordan sinking two free throws with .8 seconds remaining. I tracked down Bulldogs head coach Tim O'Shea, who gabbed ... Read More

Dana O'Neil has one of the most enviable gigs in the college sports-writing game. She covers the games from time to time, but she also gets to write 2,500-word feature stories that range from the quirky to the endearing to the heartbreaking to the inspirational. Met the former Philadelphia Daily News writer earlier this season, and she was kind enough to indulge the site for an interview. Among the topics ... Read More

Marqus Blakely, quite possibly — quite easily — could be more valuable to his team than any other player in the country. It’s no joke: the reigning two-time America East Player and Defensive Player of the Year leads Vermont in points, rebounds, assists, blocks and steals. Yeah, he’s the only one at any level of college basketball who is doing that. It’s kind of a big deal. He also ranks in ... Read More

Before I get going here, let me just say this: Seth Davis is a pretty funny guy, but television is a filter for a lot of the humor he tends to dish out. The first time I heard the word "fuck" come out of his mouth when talking to him, it was as if all I thought I knew about the man went out the window. But it didn't, really. ... Read More

I got a chance to meet Jeff at Madison Square Garden earlier this season. When I asked him if he'd be willing to do an interview via e-mail, he gave me his card and insisted I call him and do it over the phone instead. I spoke with him on the phone Friday about his unusual path to FOXSports.com, his favorite coaches in the game, some of his fellow colleagues ... Read More

Part two of CHJ's interview with Sean McManus focuses more on the college basketball and general sports-covering realm of his job. He opens up about Billy Packer, the choice of Clark Kellogg and his worries about ESPN's ambition to perhaps steal some early-round games away from CBS. (You can read part one here.) During the tournament, are you the one who is making the decisions and saying, for instance, 'OK, let's ... Read More

It's entirely possible you don't know much about Sean McManus. But the son of Jim McKay (yes, that one) was kind enough to give me an hour out of his ridiculously busy schedule.  McManus is in charge of CBS News and CBS Sports. The only other person to hold two such positions at once? Roone Arlidge. The interview was so long, I figured it would better suit the reader to ... Read More

I had the great pleasure and opportunity to interview, in person, one of the most well-known and polarizing sports columnists of this era last week. The man so many of you love to hate talks about how he started in the business by accidentally landing a piece on the front page of the Boston Globe, what he feels about the Internet and blogs, gives thoughts on his detractors and, of ... Read More

Kevin Duffy is the sports editor for the UConn newspaper, The Daily Campus. Duffy has been traveling with the team all season, so CHJ asked him about the team, its chances to win it all, how bad it was out in Glendale and if Jim Calhoun is debating retirement after this season. He also mentions how he was too inhibited to talk to Rick Reilly. C'mon! What was Glendale like? Specifically, ... Read More

The argument can be made that no media person is as synonymous with any sport in the country as Dick Vitale is with college basketball. Some people love his genuine enthusiasm; others think he's too bombastic, over the top and annoying. One thing's for certain: he takes nothing for granted. Vitale went out of his way to ask me if I'd like to have a few minutes for an interview. ... Read More