It was a game that was first played in 1912. The two teams have played both as Independents and as rivals in two conferences. It was a true border war fought between adjoining states. For one side, it was the second-biggest rival, for the other the biggest, no matter what they said. The intensity displayed [...]
Another Saturday of ACC football brought, as usual, winners and losers. In at least one instance, both came from the same school. There were celebrations in Blacksburg, Chapel Hill, Hooville, Miami, College Park and maybe by a couple of people in Boston. They were shell-shocked in Atlanta, contemplating the eBay value of those LTRs in [...]
The 2005 football season has been a pretty good one so far for the ACC. There have been some very good games, thrilling affairs that in most cases have come down to the last play. This ‘basketball’ conference is acquitting itself fairly well in the ‘other’ sport. The new television contract has kicked in and [...]
The calendar has moved past the middle of September. The football season has moved past the third week. For most ACC teams, a quarter of the season, or something close to it, has been played. All in all, it is not a bad time to take a look at them and see what can be [...]
Virginia Tech fans have certainly had a reason to think that Thomas Wolfe was right. Their 2005 season so far has been confined to the Triangle area of North Carolina. All in all, this has not been a particularly bad situation, especially for the RTP Hokies or those who have purchased Lane luxury suites, or [...]
There was a strong sense of déjà vu. The familiarity was stark. There we were in a small, on-campus stadium. The crowd was overwhelmingly a maroon-clad one. Tech was treating the host team like the Wehrmacht treats the French Army. We had seen this before. It finally hit me after we disembarked from the bus [...]
There will be something quite unusual going on at Duke this weekend. It won’t be just the football game, obviously. Duke does play a few of those. One doesn’t achieve all of those 0-11’s without showing up to lose a few games. There will, however, be something a little different about this one. It will [...]
All things considered, the Trinity Road experience could have been worse. A weekend spent hanging around the RV end of the infamous parking area at NC State culminated as we walked through the much less hospitable student-parking end. At least there was no gunplay. The drool and acne element of the Wolfpack fan base lived [...]
