The fifth anniversary of ACC expansion has rolled around. There have been quite a few articles and columns devoted to the remembrance. I figured I might as well shine in with mine. During the Great Expansion War of 03, I had been charged with filing dispatches which, while not exactly from the front or anywhere [...]

The closing acts of the college sports season has brought us a monumental upset. A fairly unusual defense strategy was employed in a lawsuit directed at an ACC member. And a comedic icon has left the stage. There are a few intriguing headlines floating just ahead of the impending Dead Zone. It is human nature [...]

The days are dwindling down. A fortnight or so of the baseball version of the College World Series is all that stands between us and two months of Dead Zone barren landscape. Even now, the Sports sections of the various newspapers I read on a daily basis are carrying practically nothing of worthwhile value. This [...]

In retrospect, we should have seen it coming. More than once as I flipped over to observe snatches of that ludicrous 6 ½ hour Belmont pre-race show on both ESPN and ABC, 400 minutes of hype devoted to a 2-minute race, the question popped into my head: Who is watching all of this? The answer [...]

Still Winners 06/03/08 It was a short series. The Virginia Tech softball team reached the Women’s College World Series for the first time in program history. The magical run that had gone from the stunning upset of the US National Team, through the regular season and ACC tournament, through Knoxville and Ann Arbor for the [...]