It was certainly a busy week for ACC athletics. Between the silliness known as football recruiting coverage, the release of the 2010 schedule and the normal amounts of ACC basketball seen in February, area sports fans were hopping keeping track of it all. Maybe it was best that the snow kept people at home and [...]

Well, this very likely won’t be the first ACC basketball season where every single team finishes with an 8-8 record. While it looked for a while that the entire conference might finish at .500 in league play, and a bunch still might, a bit of separation has taken place in the standings. There is also [...]

05/06/2009 New Hoo basketball coach Tony Bennett vowed to speed up his tempo. Speaking to a gathering of Hoo basketball and music fans, Bennett addressed concerns that his style might be too slow to appeal to today’s audiences and players. “Sure, I made my reputation with syrupy ballads,” said Bennett, adding, “But let me tell [...]

So much for Destiny’s Darlings. The media-contrived efforts to turn a Michigan State team that won 26 games and the Big 11 title into some sort of Cinderella fighting for oppressed automobile workers everywhere lasted until Thompson’s first shot seconds into the game. The glass slipper was too small in the Heel. Carolina treated the [...]

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 [...]

04/07/08 It was a short Final Four for Carolina. A funny thing happened to this Tar Heels team on their way to adding their own banner to the seemingly dozens of championship ones draped around the rafters of Dean’s Dome. Specifically, Kansas happened. Yikes! My bracket picks of Carolina meeting UCLA in the Final Two [...]

In and Out 03/10/08 It took fourteen weeks and thirty-plus games for most teams, but the primary goal of the basketball regular basketball season has been accomplished: seedings have been determined for the conference tournaments. Well, there has been a little more. The least meaningful of all sports regular seasons finally lurched to an end [...]

Comeback Weekend 03/03/08 There were five ACC games played over the weekend. All five at various points had one team holding a double-digit lead. What made the whole business somewhat interesting is that four of the five managed to lose. Things kicked off in grand style noon Saturday with Duke playing at NC State. Given [...]

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 [...]

Blue Hades 02/18/08 Well, that was ugly. The Virginia Tech basketball team traveled to Dean’s Dome last Saturday. It was a bruised and battered group of Heels and toes awaiting the rested Tech team in Blue Heaven. How did things work out? Not too good. Tech responded to some early adversity provided by a fired-up [...]