Hoo Athletic Director Craig ‘Tubby, you still out there?’ Littlepage announced that basketball coach Fallback Dave had been run out of town on a rail resigned, effective just as soon as security could get him off the Grounds immediately. In announcing the leitaoing of Fallback Dave, Littlepage said, “[Fallback Dave] has been a lousy coach [...]
Florida State President T. K. Wetherell pronounced that he was “confused” over NCAA interpretations of penalties due from FSU’s latest scandal, this one involving academics. The NCAA had placed Florida State on probation due to the cheating scandal involving 61 Noles in 10 sports. Wetherell’s ‘confusion’ stemmed from the NCAA ordering the school to vacate [...]
A-Line Extra Media sources around the state have reported yet another escape from the Hoo football staff. Bob Diaco, hired as Hoo Defensive Coordinator after Magical Bob magically disappeared after serving only a 12-month sentence, has reportedly escaped from the Grounds. While Diaco is the latest in what have been numerous sucessful escapes from the [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Virginia Tech rode a last second shot by Deron Washington to defeat the Hoos 70-69 Wednesday night in Hooville’s John Paul Jones Center. The Hokies had rallied from a 69-64 deficit in the last three minutes of overtime. The Hoos’ latest defeat was a costly one, as the promise of free cheese from the Brix [...]
A-Line Extra One of the most vicious and mean-spirited campaigns in the history of Danville politics ended Tuesday with the re-election of Incumbent Republican businessman Danny Marshall to his seat in the 14th District of the Virginia House of Delegates. Marshall held off a strong challenge mounted by Twenty-something unemployed slacker Adam Tomer. Tomer, the [...]
A-Line Extra These sure are interesting times for observers of college football in this state. Decisions concerning the quarterback position had to be made. One was made last Saturday night and confirmed early in the week. The other apparently will come in December. The latest quarterback drama, of course, came during the Tech- LSU game, [...]
