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 [...]
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 Wreck in the Hills 12/20/07 It’s like riding past a particularly gruesome automobile accident. You know you shouldn’t look, but you just can’t help it. The fascination of what you might see overrides all sense of decency. Such it is with the multi-car pileup that the situation in the Hills has become. The wreckage [...]
There are times when events cause me to expand my scope a bit beyond the usual parameters of Virginia Tech and ACC sports. This is one of those times. In the summer of 2003, amid the wreckage of what was once the Big East Football Conference, a couple of athletics directors at schools left behind [...]
Expansion Redux 07/30/07 We saw something last week not seen in quite a while. Four years, actually. What used to as annual a right of Spring as Opening Day and senior proms is back. That would be Conference Expansion Season. Every year after the NCAA basketball extravaganza finished its run, Conference Expansion Season would crank [...]
And now it’s Bowl Week. Christmas is over, as are all of those nondescript bowls placed before the holiday in order to flesh out programming on the Deuce. It is now time to get down to the brass tacks of bowling. There were all of those so-called ‘lower-tier’ bowls. They are called that for a [...]
Got your bowl plans firmed up yet? Hundreds of thousands of college football fans have done or are doing just that, making preparations for that great New Year’s extravaganza, the bowl season. Planes, trains and automobiles will be ferrying those fans to destinations, mostly south [sorry, Canes], as we prepare for that annual vacation quite [...]
Things have been jumping in ACC football country. The Coach Hiring Season is in full swing. Of interest is who migrated south and which coach decided against escaping from the Li’l E. There are things to read other than on-line Underground restaurant menus. NC State made much shorter work of this coaching search than they [...]
The bright Monday morning Jacksonville sun sent shafts of light slicing through the early-morning mist. Those out early on the Landing stopped to marvel at the combination of light and shadow that danced over the St. John ’s River . Upon closer examination, however, they discovered that this was not caused by fog coming from [...]