We know it is coming. This Virginia Tech team continues to win, last Saturday by a somewhat uncomfortable margin. Life is about to get a bit tougher. The rest of the ACC saw a hometown boy make good at State, Big John pleased and more bad luck befall the Great NFL Legend. And how about [...]

This is probably not what Little Johnny Swofford had in mind. Three years after ACC expansion roiled the college football landscape, the New and Improved ACC looks much like the Old and Unimproved ACC, minus the powerhouse FSU program. This time around your humble correspondent suggests a reason for the malaise that seems to be [...]

Well, Week 3 of the football season was certainly an interesting one. Whether it was yet another thrashing inflicted by Virginia Tech on the football-challenged RTP, the Clubhouse Tailgate reaching new lows in its unflagging pursuit of questionable taste, shrill outrage coming from the Triangle over the offending of delicate Duke football sensibilities, or the [...]

It looked a lot like one of the longest post-game walks ever made by Frank Beamer. The final horn had sounded on Tech’s 35-10 demolition of North Carolina . As is his habit and that of most coaches, Frank strolled to mid-field to engage in the customary hand-shake and exchange of pleasantries with Big John [...]

It was astounding. Sportswriters in the state of North Carolina took a break from all of those stories about what went wrong in Japan, Coach K’s chances in the 08 Olympics and how Ol’ Roy’s Freshmen are raring to have a go at hanging another banner in Dean’s Dome to actually write a football story. [...]

Well, there was at least some great tailgating. Virginia Tech’s yawn-inducing season-opening win over Northeastern went pretty much according to script. There was no drama whatsoever in the opener that turned out to be a romp over an A-10 dog instead of a more interesting game against the Wisconsin Chickens. Tech’s young and inexperienced starters [...]