Bill Raftery was a scoring machine at St ... Lots of schools recruited Raftery. He chose La Salle. While soccer was popular before Raftery’s era, and even more so in the decades afterward ...

Salesian head coach Bill Mellis reacts while playing De La Salle in the second half of their NCS Boys Open Division basketball championship game at Dublin High School in Dublin, Calif., ...

Ask any college basketball fan what makes the NCAA Tournament such a special event, and chances are you'd get a variety of answers. There are the upsets that take place and Cinderella teams that ...

Bill Raftery is a college basketball legend, and hearing his various catchphrases every March for the men's NCAA tournament feels like coming home. The one you'll hear a ton in 2025 is ...

Bill Raftery never lets an opportunity pass to slip in a wisecrack or otherwise humorous observation. The colorful college basketball analyst was in top form Friday night as Illinois hosted No.

Bill Raftery might know that the best call is last call, but that doesn’t mean he knows how to use a mobile boarding pass. To be fair, the 81-year-old Raftery has far better things to worry ...

What would March Madness and the NCAA Tournament be without Bill Raftery’s onions? ESPN attempted to make us find out. Raftery joined the latest episode of Pardon My Take with Dan “Big Cat ...

Bill Addison is the restaurant critic of the Los Angeles Times. He is recipient of the 2023 Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award from the James Beard Foundation, among numerous ...

Legendary college basketball broadcaster Bill Raftery added another highlight call to his catalogue on Friday night when he referenced President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada during the ...

La Salle beat Hendricken 45-41 in the lowest-scoring RIIL Division I championship game since 1976. La Salle's Nick Tarro led all scorers with 12 points, while teammate Liam Simpson had 17 rebounds.

18 Purdue on Friday at the State Farm Center in Champaign, but he also gave all of us something else: one more reason to love Bill Raftery. If you follow college basketball and you don't know ...