The College Hoops Beat...

My loyal readers... all five of you... are probably wondering where I've been for the last couple of weeks.

There's no truth to the rumor that Madison Square Garden security "disappeared" me for promoting Fire Isiah T-shirts. I've been publishing columns and blogs on RotoWire on NBA.com, but Three Seconds has been quiet.

Too quiet.

Directly above this post, you'll see the reason. I'm now covering college basketball on About.com. There's a feed of my latest posts right here on Three Seconds, and when I launch new features I'll post links here as well.

A New Cottage Industry

I have finally figured out James Dolan's master plan.

He's not keeping Isiah Thomas as coach out of stubbornness. Or incompetence.

No, he's doing it as a way of jump-starting New York's garment industry.

The latest "Fire Isiah" T-shirt making the rounds
-- hand-made and hand-printed by a graphic artist named Ivan Cash -- is by far the best. It's also the version that has generated the most media attention, mostly due to the ham-handed efforts of Madison Square Garden security officers and the NYPD on patrol outside the World's Most Mis-Managed Arena.

Cash's shirt sells for $20, and he accepts PayPal.