Another Dead Zone is rapidly coming to an end. This past one has not been the best of times. In fact, neither have the last two. I have never been particularly fond of the period of the calendar stretching from the end of the NCAA Tournament, later shortened by a couple of weeks when I began [...]

Finally! Another football season is upon us. The monotony of August practices is almost over and has shifted to game week preparations. The various methods used by fans to count down to kickoff shows that time is drawing near indeed. It is almost time for football. This Saturday games will actually be played. Media types can [...]

A-Line Extra The Morva boys certainly seem to have a knack for making news. A day after William Morva made national headlines by gunning down two people and leading police on an intensive search that concluded when his cunning ploy of hiding within half a mile of the police station proved unsuccessful, another Morva was in [...]

Reality has an irritating habit of oftentimes intruding on our fun and games. I started a column early Monday morning after reading the news, paying little attention to a blurb about an escaped jail inmate in the New River Valley . I went out around 9 to attend to some business and returned about 12:30. Paying [...]

Continuing my attempts to prove I can be just as wrong in predicting the 2006 ACC football season as the experts, here are the 2006 Fearless Football Predictions, Part 2. As always, these predictions are guaranteed to be correct unless they are not. Coastal Division 1] Miami If not now, when? Things have not succeeded as planned for [...]

It is the time of the year when everybody gets into the prediction game. Every conference from the ACC to the RUTS Belt has released votes of where the media types figure the teams will finish. Those covering the ACC, of course, have already released their guesses as the how the two divisions will finish. If [...]