Football is getting closer. As the calendar pages turn and the Dead Zone melts away like ice in this July heat, the magical month of September draws closer. Another football season is now a mere five weeks and a wake-up away. The ACC got the ball rolling on football season with its 2006 ACC Football Kickoff [...]

A-Line Extra Virginia Head Football Coach and Great NFL Legend algroh spoke with reporters yesterday concerning his disappearing recruiting class. Fully one-third of algroh’s 2006 signees have failed to gain admission to Mr. Jefferson’s academical village, eight players out of the twenty-four man class. While some might consider this a problem, not algroh. Speaking with reporters at [...]

Has there ever been a less-suspenseful recruiting announcement? All-everything high school quarterback Tyrod Taylor last Friday ended weeks and months of quasi-speculation by announcing he would attend Virginia Tech. Was there ever really any serious doubt? Most every college from Canada to Central America had attempted to get involved with Tidewater’s latest quarterback wunderkind. None got [...]

The World Cup is over. The month-long celebration of the world’s biggest sporting event has concluded. Well, the world’s biggest sporting event in all countries not named the United States . Here, the Beautiful Game ranks in popularity somewhere between paintball tournaments and paint-drying exhibitions. In the rest of the world, however, it is a [...]