Things can definitely be filed under the ‘Never A Dull Moment’ heading. There was Tech’s titanic intersectional game against traditional power Kent State . Then was a trip to Cameron for outstanding November basketball. The traditional media and the masters of DickieB provided the cherry on top: to the wild jubilation of all of those [...]
The final call finally came. It was at 10:07 Wednesday night when the phone rang and the Caller ID displayed for the last time the words ‘Roman Eagle Memorial Home.’ The nurse in charge of the second shift of the Middle East Ward, a highly-competent young lady who never failed to impress me with her [...]
The call came Wednesday night at 10:30. The elevated heart rate that accompanies every ringing of the phone around these parts these days went up even more when the Caller ID displayed the words ‘Roman Eagle Memorial Home.’ Answering it had me talking again to one of the pleasant nurses from Roman Eagle. My Mother [...]
A-Line Extra Former Miami Hurricanes football player, former Tampa Bay Buccaneers football player, former Miami Dolphins football player, former Miami Hurricanes television broadcaster and former Dade County Jail inmate Lamar Thomas announced a new venture. Thomas announced the formation of the Lamar Thomas School of Broadcasting. Speaking at the new school’s picturesque campus located adjacent [...]
It was déjà vu all over again. Tech fans had seen it before. On the field, the Tech team trash-talked and personal-fouled its way through another high-profile loss. On the sideline, Frank Beamer alternated between the bewildered look usually seen when Bobby Bowden is on the other bench and arguing with the officials. It was [...]
It was hardly the worst thing in the world. Yes, Virginia Tech was the loser in last Saturday’s annual multi-Tech game. Many saw it coming. When a very inexperienced team goes up against one with scads of it, the youthful outfit often loses and that is what happened. There will be another day when guys [...]
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 [...]
