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 [...]
The middle of July is not a bad time to be a football coach. The heavy lifting of the previous year is done and there are still a few weeks before the grind of the next one commences. Plus, coaches are rarely fired in July. This is a time for lazing around the vacation home [...]
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 [...]
04/23/08 The Spring football season has come and gone. It culminated last Saturday at Virginia Tech with the Spring Game, actually played this year. I’m told it was as most, with virtually nothing to be gleaned. I can’t say for sure, as I didn’t actually see it. I was in the vicinity of Lane, with [...]
04/10/08 We seem to be running out of sports. A new college basketball champion was crowned, much to the delight of Ol’ Roy. Spring football practices are wrapping up, meaning that great gala is on tap for Hooville. There ain’t much left until the Dead Zone kicks in. But, I have found a new musical [...]
A-Line Extra: Hoo Quit? 02/08/08 Determined not to let heavy statewide media coverage of algroh’s dismal football recruiting overshadow them, the Hoo basketball team responded by laying down and showing a near total lack of effort against Clemson, losing 82-51. The thirty-point mauling at the hands of the Tigers was the worst loss ever suffered [...]
It was a busy Wednesday. There were all sorts of things going on morning, noon and night to keep us sports junkies occupied. Some of them involved the actually playing of games. For those of us who prefer watching games to posting on message boards predictions of what might happen in three or four years, [...]
And now the Hoos. With Tech’s perfunctory thrashing of a Canes team that showed that while it might be Backless it is not quite spineless out of the way, it is off to Hooville for the first Really Big Game in the long history of old rivals Tech and the Hoos. The winner grabs the [...]