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Back In Black
The Return of the A-Line Board of Football Experts This deserves special recognition. Jim Author : Mitchell (IP: 71.176.235.236 , pool-71-176-235-236.rcmdva.fios.verizon.net) E-mail : mjckid@gmail.com URL    : Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=71.176.235.236 Comment: This article shows how truly old you are I’m guessing 90…These uniforms look sweet…I generates great amounts of revenue which is always good and it [...]
A-Line Extra: Butch ‘Surprised’
North Carolina football coach Butch Davis expressed ‘surprise’ at the latest investigation of his football program. At a hastily-called press conference also attended by North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp and Athletic Director Dick Baddour, it was revealed that the NCAA had uncovered yet another impropriety in the Tar Heels’ scandal-plagued football program. Allegations of academic [...]
Fearless Predictions 2010
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 [...]
Tech’s Latest Big Game
The interminable wait for the football season enters its home stretch. This Dead Zone has less than three weeks remaining. As often happens, Virginia Tech is opening its season with a high-profile ESPN game. This one is Labor night at FedEx against Boise State. According to jimmy on the first Tech Talk of the season, [...]
The Guns of August
It is the home stretch. Season tickets have been delivered, early [FedEx] travel arrangements made and I have even had dinner with Frank and several hundred other Roanoke Hokies. We are now inside a month and are counting down to another football season. Practice has begun at all schools and all available media outlets are [...]
Hype and Change
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 [...]
A-Line Extra: Hoo Wants A Ticket?
New Hoo football coach Mike London announced his latest attempt at luring fans into the Smithsonian. London said that he had bought 100 season tickets and would give them away in the ongoing Hoo campaign to get fans to actually show up for games. “Hoo fans have really embraced me during my first seven months [...]
Family Ties
The Alderson family held its annual reunion this past Saturday. While that is not all that unusual, as they are held around this time every year, the venue and methods of celebration were. I have been attending these events for quite a while. As time passes, I notice that I am edging slowly but surely [...]
Expanding Expansion
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 [...]
Zoning In
The Spring Game has come and gone. That means, of course, that once again we have entered the Dead Zone, that void of endless NBA and NHL playoffs, a stupefying number of professional baseball games and countless and seemingly pointless NASCAR races and golf tournaments. It will be the usual four months. Even the prospects [...]