Notice anything different? Well, probably not if you are receiving this update by e-mail. You will. Welcome to the new A-Line. I’m told it was a long time coming. Whether it’s the new and improved A-Line remains to be seen. There are all sorts of nifty new features in this format. You can figure them [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Al be home for Christmas. Hoo can count on me. In most of the country, Thanksgiving Day ushers in the holiday season of carols and consumption. Not so in the Commonwealth of Virginia. In this neck of the woods the official start of festivities comes a couple of days later. That is when Tech beats [...]
Thawed out yet? That exhilarating display of offensive football in brisk conditions last Saturday night was certainly a wonder to behold. Uh, let’s rephrase that. Brisk? Brisk my [still] numb hindquarters. It was damn cold. Let’s try this again. That miserable display of offensive ineptitude on the frozen tundra of Lane Stadium last Saturday night [...]
A-Line Extra Hoo head football coach algroh said that while he continued to work very hard, he still found opportunities to spend quality time with boygroh. The Great NFL Legend said that over the last 2 ½ days, “I’d calculate that I have spent, hmmm, zero minus zero is zero, nothing to carry, sixty minus [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
05/01/08 I am a big fan of radio sports. Starting in my callow youth, I have spent many hours listening to various radio announcers describing the successes and failures of various teams, most local ones. I very early picked up the habit of watching televised sports with the sound turned down while listening to radio [...]
