The Sun's Arizin: Villanova Wildcats news and links for November 21, 2013

Hello, Thursday! It's looking less and less likely that I'll be around for the double-Delaware beatdown this weekend, so I've enlisted the help of my lovely girlfriend to cook up a Cornish hen for dinner tonight. I'll be day-dreaming of Rakim Cox sacks and James Bell dunks while I eat it.

And now, the "news."

Harrison's Ryan Doty Commits To Villanova | The Rye Daily Voice
Baseball recruiting news? That's rare.

Kansas Joel Embiid Leads Kansas Over Iona | Rock Chalk Talk
Don't let the 20-point margin of victory fool you. This was a close game until about 9 minutes left when Kansas began to pull away. We can compete with these guys. They play Towson on Friday night, so we can use that as a not-so-great measuring stick.

Requiem for a welterweight: Manny Pacquiao's story | SBNation.com
LONGFORM! Manny Pacquiao may be broke, but is he broken, too? Boxing’s not so well kept dirty secret is that, financially, most fighters can never stop.

PHOTOS: Cortland, New York Destroyed on "Cortaca" Weekend | LostLettermen.com
Oh. My. Lord. Brian put it best: This proves that the key to "party hard" is to be in the middle of nowhere.