I’ll be the first one to admit that deciding between a charge and a block is probably the hardest call to make on the basketball court. There’s no consistency. Big time players and schools always seem to come away with the charges (can anyone say … Duke?). Perhaps that is why the NCAA decided to institute a new rule for the 2009-2010 college basketball season.
Ironically enough, Duke Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski isn’t a fan. The new rule specifies an unmarked zone under the basket where referees can call only blocks and not charges on offensive players.
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According to ESPN, Mike Krzyzewski (a.k.a. Coach K) will return as the head coach of the U.S. men’s basketball team for the 2012 Olympics. He will also  remain as coach of the national team at the 2010 world championship in Turkey.
First reported by The Boston Globe, USA basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo convinced Coach K  to stay in the job after he led the U.S.A. to the gold medal in Beijing last summer.
“With the success that we had, I would do everything in my power to keep everything intact,” Colangelo told The Associated Press without confirming the decision.
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Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski got all passive-aggressive about the fact that North Carolina has a lot of injured players and that people know that North Carolina has a lot of injured players. So, naturally, when talking about his own injured player, Coach K said his team didn’t discuss injuries “unlike other schools.” This apparent slight towards the Tar Heels made UNC coach Roy Williams hopping mad. Hopping mad like Yosemite Sam.
“It’s not like I’m getting a dadgum plane and flying it around to say, ‘Roy fell against a wall and banged his nose’ or anything,” Williams said in a news …read more