My bags are packed, I’m ready to go. Actually, they are. While they are still in the car from last weekend’s trip to Tech to observe the scrimmage and spend money and will be unloaded for laundry just as soon as I get around to it, that a few of us jumped the season’s gun [...]

The ACC recently completed its annual football extravaganza recently. The league’s coaches, a couple of players from each team and numerous members of the various media that cover conference football gathered at Grandover in Greensboro for the usual talk, predictions, golf and assurances from Little Johnny that ACC football isn’t as bad as it often [...]

So, where were you when LeBron made the Decision? It certainly was one of those momentous times rarely seen in the human experience. Years from now, people will remember exactly where they were when the NBA’s Bestest Player Ever made his fateful choice, much like they do for other seminal events such as 9/11 or [...]

This Dead Zone appears to be anything but. There seems to be a sporting event held once every four years that is a fairly big deal to all parts of the world except for this one. The World Cup competition again attempts to convince a skeptical North American sporting public that soccer is indeed a [...]

One thing about this Conference Expansion season: It is providing no shortage of hilarity. The high comedy of which expansion scenario, each more far-fetched than the last, will turn out to be the correct one has become a laugh riot as everybody from the usual assortment of message board loons to the Web sites themselves [...]

It is certainly an interesting Conference Expansion Season. With the annual BCS meetings preparing to start, exactly who will be in that august grouping under which conference label is a hot topic. There hasn’t been this much conference expansion action since the last time, seven years ago. What seems assured is that the Big 11 [...]

Throughout his twenty-year career as a head college basketball coach, Seth Greenberg has had plenty of opportunities to explain why his teams were not chosen for the NCAA Tournament. The most recent Selection Sunday with its most recent snub of Virginia Tech, provided the latest. A week ago, Tech had seemed a lock to finally [...]

The ACC’s battle royal of a regular season has ended. All 12 of the teams, their handlers, cut men and UCF officials convene in Greensboro. The final seedings and even the identity of fourth team with a Thursday bye was not decided until the last minute of the last game Sunday night. Ratings for the [...]

It always bothered my parents that I didn’t go to Duke. Much more than it did me. I grew up in Fairview Methodist Church. Although the last two times I have set foot in the place were for my Mother’s funeral and that of a really neat cousin of my maternal grandmother and I have [...]

A month ago, things looked bleak for Virginia Tech. The Hokies had ridden an OOC schedule so weak that even a team coached by Seth Greenberg only lost to the one good team it played. Coupled with a relatively-easy ACC draw that had the Hokies playing twice the worst teams in the league and Tech [...]