Many will recall the riotous adventures experienced last year by the Clubhouse Tailgate in dealing with Catch-17. The marvelously-devious Catch-17 stated that RVs must have a parking permit to park in Lot 17, then the designated RV lot, unless one had a parking permit, in which case it could not park in Lot 17. Enacting [...]

We have reached what is roughly the halfway point of the season. As is usually the case, things have gotten fairly interesting. The Virginia Tech football team had last week off. Unlike Frank’s crew, I did not. Despite my best attempts at working very hard at not working very hard, I seem to have gotten [...]

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 [...]

With the football season right around the corner, this seems like as good a time as any to make my annual football predictions. As always, these predictions are guaranteed to be correct unless they are not. Atlantic Division 1] Florida State- For 16 years the Noles have resided atop ACC preseason forecasts. For most of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The time has come. The suitcase has finally been unpacked from the Miami trip. The coolers have been relegated to their off-season basement location for another year. The used tickets, programs and assorted other detritus from a season that tends to collect on my kitchen table from September to early January has been stashed into [...]

What a difference a week makes. Seven days after fans of Virginia Tech were sent into the depths of despair and after 100+ years of football, Boston College finally produced a second highlight, the tables were turned. It was fans of the ACC’s other Tech leaping from the roof of the Coca-Cola building. Oh, and [...]

And now, here is what hundreds of thousands have been avidly awaiting, give or take a few hundreds of thousands, the predictions for the ACC’s Coastal Division. As always, these predictions are guaranteed to be correct unless they are not and, quite frankly, I hope the latter is the case. 6] Duke- Well, Duh! The [...]

here is one thing you can say about the ACC: when it comes to finding pleasant places to stage their media events, they don’t screw around. The conference recently completed their ACC Football Kickoff media event. The league’s coaches and a few players gathered at the posh Homestead resort to relax and pontificate on the [...]