Last Saturday night began my annual month or so of actually paying attention to college baseball. Not by coincidence, this period of time just happens to coincide with the NCAA playoffs and College World Series. Well, it beats the NBA playoffs, although there was amusement to be found from watching King James storm off the [...]

During the Great ACC Expansion War of 03 much was made of the necessity of expansion candidates fitting into the ‘culture’ of the ACC. At various times this was construed to mean various things. To some it meant that any prospective new member must have the proper ‘balance’ between athletics and the reported academic mission [...]