A-Line Extra The University of North Carolina at the People’s Republic of Chapel Hill announced they would hold their first-ever Spring Football Festivus Saturday, April 8, at Kenan Stadium. Carolina ’s Associate Athletic Director for Marketing and Promotions Norwood Teague made the Festivus announcement while in Richmond interviewing for the position of Athletic Director at [...]
Hoops fever is sweeping the Mason Nation. The Patriots’ improbable run to the Final Four has not only the sliver devoted to old GMU agog but the entire rest of the nation, too. Well, maybe not everybody. While the attention of what griping CBS Sports executives inform us is practically nobody is riveted to the [...]
A-Line Extra LSU announced today that its men’s basketball team would not participate in this weekend’s Final Four. Athletic Director Skip Bertman said the move came because of a conflict with the Tigers’ Spring Football Game, also scheduled for Saturday, April 1. Bertman said he had petitioned the NCAA to move the Final Four away [...]
A-Line Extra. In response to fan feedback and widespread Internet ridicule, the Hoos announced that the Hoo Spring Football Festivus had been moved back to Saturday, April 22. Hunter Hooracek, Hoo Associate Athletic Director for Getting People Interested in Football, said that tens of thousands of Hoo fans had demanded that the Festivus be moved [...]
Okay, how many of you, when filling out your brackets, penciled in George Mason for the Final Four? Let’s have a show of hands……. Anybody? I didn’t think so. That shows how much we know about basketball. Certainly my own selection of UConn to advance looks pretty stupid. This strangest of NCAA tournaments became just [...]
And then there was Fredo. Midway through the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA tournament, the ACC is down to one team left. Interestingly enough, that sole survivor is conference new guy Boston College . As the Eagles prepare to attempt to uphold ACC honor and advance against old foe Villanova of the Biggie East, [...]
A-Line Extra. The Hoos announced that this year’s Hoo Football Festivus will be held Friday, April 21, at 7:30 pm. This will mark a change for the Hoos, hoo normally marked the end of Spring Practice with a Saturday Festivus unless they did not. For years, the Hoo Football Festivus had been held on Saturdays [...]
We should have seen it coming. Saturday morning Sportscenter had comments from some clown who had called in and brayed about how his Tar Heels were going to knock off UConn. It seemed to be classic weauxfing, most notable in that it glossed right over the little fact that the Tylers had a couple of [...]
The griping continues. As the NCAA tips off its showcase Men’s Basketball tournament, complaints and questions abound as to how the sixty-four teams contending for March Madness became the sixty-four teams contending for March Madness. There were differing theories. The strongest criticism of the placement of teams came from Al Featherston. The former basketball reporter [...]
A-Line Extra. The talking heads were fuming. Jim Nantz wondered aloud whether the NCAA Selection Committee knew what they were doing. Dick Vitale was enraged that another 20-25 teams from the Biggie East were not invited to the Biggie Dance. It would appear the committee threw the vaunted ‘S-Curve’ onto a room service tray and [...]
