These are strange days in the ACC. In this third year of an expanded conference, things are not as they once were, at least in places. Bad has become good and vice versa. The meek might not have yet inherited the earth, but they did bring home a league football championship. In basketball, about the [...]

The Maryland-Tech game certainly proved at least one thing beyond a shadow of a doubt. An ice storm that blanketed most of the state except my own promised to give all of those NOVA season-ticket holders a plausible reason to stay home. An icy I-81 also meant those from Roanoke and most everywhere else would [...]

Virginia Tech seems to be figuring out this whole ACC basketball thing. The Hokies followed up their win over Duke at Cameron by taking out the ACC’s other blue-blooded basketball aristocracy, North Carolina , last Saturday in Cassell. This is becoming great fun. When a game in Cassell ends with Woody jerking his headphones from his [...]

It remains my opinion that basketball season begins entirely too early. It continues to encroach on the football one and no doubt will eventually begin before college football kicks off. The result of this continued expansion [basketball season, not conference] means I pay little attention to college basketball until after the football season is completed and [...]

All in all, it was a pretty good trip. Bowl junkets usually are. There were some things that were less than optimum, such as a solid introduction, albeit brief, into the seamier side of Atlanta life and there was the little matter of the score. On the whole, however, it ranked right up there with [...]