About a year and a-half ago, Scout.com was bought by Fox Interactive Media. Now it looks like Rivals.com might be absorbed by Yahoo!. Can’t say I’m shocked by this — well maybe a little by the potential buyer. Rivals.com was doing okay with the subscriptions and as a content supplier to various sports media groups, but they needed someone with deeper pockets behind them with Scout.com, CBS/CSTV/MaxPreps.com and ESPN/Scouts, Inc all in very solid financial positions.

I’m not particularly wild about Dick Groat doing color analysis for Pitt basketball, as he seems at least half-a-step behind on things. Still, congrats on getting into the college basketball hall of fame and I did find his Q&A interesting.

Q: How do you think Pitt senior center Aaron Gray will fare at the next level?

A: Knowing the kind of person he is, I think he will fare well. For no other reason than what he doesn’t do well, he will work and improve and make himself better.

Q: What are your thoughts about Bob Huggins coming to West Virginia?

A: He’s notorious. He gets away with it. The guy is a good coach, and he’s had great success. But he will bring anybody in and do any way to bring a recruit in. I just think there’s a better way to do things. It puts pressure on everybody in the Big East.

Heh.