Hatvol has just posted his preseason basketball top 10 for the 2008-2009 season:

The Trap hits Sin City for the crucial Mountain West tilt between UNLV and San Diego State, before returning to Knoxville for the renewal of hostilities between Tennessee and Kentucky. Here are this week’s topics of hoops interest:

In today’s world of sports, the focus is all too often on the things we hate about the games we watch. Contract holdouts. Strikes/Lockouts. Steroids. Academic Fraud. The sports page is often indistinguishable from the police blotter or the business section. That is not why we all fell in love with sports.