Multi-Tech and the Color of $$$ 09/15/08 A win is a win is a win. Saturday’s annual multi-Tech ACC showdown resulted in victory for the team wearing the garish uniforms. It wasn’t pretty, either in the way the ‘good’ Tech played or was attired, but it was a win. Frank and most all other Hokies [...]
This weekend, we will finally have football. Having survived another grueling Dead Zone, we can now look forward, until next January, of weekends spent either traveling up and down the byways of the mid-Atlantic to watch our favorite team[s] or camped in front of the television. Let the good times roll! Football returns after two [...]
A-Line Extra Hoo Sports Marketing has announced the addition of another act to the algroh’s Follies Football Revue. The same brilliant promotional folks who delivered the Hoo Spring Football Festivus, which has provided such laughter and merriment, said that Magical Bob would be appearing at the Smithsonian this year. Magical Bob last performed in Huntington, [...]
With the football season right around the corner, this seems like as good a time as any to make my annual football predictions. As always, these predictions are guaranteed to be correct unless they are not. Atlantic Division 1] Florida State- For 16 years the Noles have resided atop ACC preseason forecasts. For most of [...]
The Weauxf Gods Do China 08/11/08 With the days of the 2008 Dead Zone dwindling down, NBC, the International Olympic Committee and McDonald’s have joined to provide a late-summer respite from the sports doldrums. The eyes of the world are fixated on the games of the 29th Olympiad in Beijing. That would include the Weauxf [...]
With a week to go before football practice gets underway and only four more weekends without football, it seemed an opportune time to check out the updated Fulmer Cup standings. Recent events might have played a small part in this decision. And, for those who have written to ask, no, I couldn’t resist. The folks [...]
Another football season continues to inch closer. Tangible evidence was offered as the ACC held its annual preseason football extravaganza at a Georgia resort. Three days of golf, seafood buffets and heavy drinking certainly put attendees in a football frame of mind. Little of real substance comes out of these affairs, unless one is an [...]
The middle of July is not a bad time to be a football coach. The heavy lifting of the previous year is done and there are still a few weeks before the grind of the next one commences. Plus, coaches are rarely fired in July. This is a time for lazing around the vacation home [...]
The last Saturday in June always brings an event I rather look forward to each year. That would be the Alderson Family Reunion. This year was no different. The annual gathering of the descendants of Richard Cephus and Sallie Adams Alderson was held last Saturday. Although both had checked out by the time I made [...]
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 [...]