here is one thing you can say about the ACC: when it comes to finding pleasant places to stage their media events, they don’t screw around. The conference recently completed their ACC Football Kickoff media event. The league’s coaches and a few players gathered at the posh Homestead resort to relax and pontificate on the [...]
We continue to become accustomed to our new digs here at The A-Line. I also notice that once a fee is not required to read columns there seem to be quite a few new people interested in reading them. That, coupled with a bunch of new readers provided by my new buddy Bob Lee Swagger [...]
Is it warm enough for everybody? With Mother Nature decreeing that the July weather should closely resemble, well, July weather, a heat wave has locked up the Mid-Atlantic and a good chunk of the rest of the country. Temperatures soar into the Nineties, combining with humidity levels of roughly the same number, making any journey [...]
It started as just another Dead Zone weekend. I had begun my Friday afternoon at a local watering hole. I was with my buddy the Hoo Lawyer and we were engaged in a favorite pastime of swapping tales, wisecracks and insults. The Hoo Lawyer filled the void between his finishing of one Scotch and the [...]
It was certainly an eventful weekend around the ACC’s Ground Zero, the RTP. News broke late Friday afternoon, from Kansas, of all places, that there had been NCAA violations authorized by former KU basketball coach and current Carolina Next Big Thing Roy Williams. The Jayhawks were engaged in the self-flagellation of turning themselves into the [...]
During the Great ACC Expansion War of 03 much was made of the necessity of expansion candidates fitting into the ‘culture’ of the ACC. At various times this was construed to mean various things. To some it meant that any prospective new member must have the proper ‘balance’ between athletics and the reported academic mission [...]
The various news media have spent quite a bit of time, column inches, airwave spectrum and bandwidth recently over the awarding of the 2012 Olympics. I didn’t really follow it all that closely, as the chances of the Games of the XXX Olympiad [let’s see how long it takes porn purveyors to really screw up [...]