As the 2009 basketball season lumbers on, interesting story lines abound. One of the more intriguing comes out of Blacksburg. It was quite a week for the Tech basketball team. It started with Tech sneaking up on a Wake Forest team basking in the glow of the media glare of their top ranking. They were [...]

A-Line Extra Fredo recently announced that he had elevated Defensive Coordinator Frank Spaziani to the position of Head Football Coach. The job had been vacant since former coach Jeff Jagodzinski had determined that unemployment was preferable to spending another day coaching the team. Many might have missed the announcement, since it was buried in the [...]

It was a game that seemed to belong to a different era. Sunday night’s Carolina- Wake game was a throwback, bringing to mind a time when the ACC was a much different league than it is today. It was also seriously-good basketball. The Tar Heels and Deacons staged an old-fashioned Tobacco Road barnburner in the [...]

It is always amusing observing the goings-on at Boston College. Whether it is their latest point-shaving scandal, the riotous bragging done by school administrators about the high ethical standards they impart to their students as the same administrators engage in shady back room negotiations and outright lying, or the ever-increasing numbers of one-way flights out [...]

Have a good holiday? There was good and bad around my neck of the woods that included family, football and an interesting phone call. More on all. The bad revolved around the funeral for my cousin and fellow Tech alum Fred Elliott. He discovered that the Christmas clatter at his house was not St. Nick [...]