A-Line Extra: No se weauxf, señor Vasquez 02/21/08 Early in Wednesday night’s Virginia Tech- Maryland game, Terps’ guard Grevis Vasquez was observed weauxfing at Tech’s AD Vassallo, no doubt in the Spanish native to them both. It was certainly noticed by the Weauxf Gods. Vasquez was singing a different canción late in the game as Tech, led [...]

Blue Hades 02/18/08 Well, that was ugly. The Virginia Tech basketball team traveled to Dean’s Dome last Saturday. It was a bruised and battered group of Heels and toes awaiting the rested Tech team in Blue Heaven. How did things work out? Not too good. Tech responded to some early adversity provided by a fired-up Carolina team by [...]

A-Line Extra: FSU Sets Record 02/15/08 Florida State University placed all of its athletic teams on a self-imposed two-year probation due to the recent academic cheating scandal. Having all seventeen of its sports teams on probation at one time, every last one of them, was believed to be a record. FSU hoped that the self-imposed probation, which [...]

Other Things 02/14/08 It was another quiet Alderson’s Birthday. Once again, as I do every February 13, I arose and quickly checked the day’s calendar to determine what events and celebrations I would be attending to mark the holiday. Once again, I discovered there were none. After several decades, I am starting to get the idea that [...]

A-Line Extra: Hoo Quit? 02/08/08 Determined not to let heavy statewide media coverage of algroh’s dismal football recruiting overshadow them, the Hoo basketball team responded by laying down and showing a near total lack of effort against Clemson, losing 82-51. The thirty-point mauling at the hands of the Tigers was the worst loss ever suffered by the Hoos [...]

It was a busy Wednesday. There were all sorts of things going on morning, noon and night to keep us sports junkies occupied. Some of them involved the actually playing of games. For those of us who prefer watching games to posting on message boards predictions of what might happen in three or four years, there [...]

Another game, another Tech win. Tech has followed up its annual football beating of the Hoos with a season’s sweep of the basketball series. From a Hoo point of view, at least Fallback Dave keeps the scores closer. Tech seems to be getting the hang of this overtime thing. The Hoos continue to perfect their practice [...]