The ACC’s battle royal of a regular season has ended. All 12 of the teams, their handlers, cut men and UCF officials convene in Greensboro. The final seedings and even the identity of fourth team with a Thursday bye was not decided until the last minute of the last game Sunday night. Ratings for the [...]
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 [...]
The A-Line Board of Football Experts Fear the Turtle? Well, not exactly. The Virginia Tech football team showed a distinct lack of fear of what passes for the team fielded by the Terps, scoring early and often en route to the pasting of the Terps. Tech showed none of the listlessness on display the previous [...]
Spending a weekend snacking on ACC basketball enabled one to enjoy all sorts of tasty morsels. NC State encountered little more difficulty in taking Atlanta than did Sherman. There was something found in Hooville rarer than cheap wine. And there was another problem from Seth’s poster-boy recruit. It wasn’t too hard to put the finger [...]
As the 2009 basketball season lumbers on, interesting story lines abound. One of the more intriguing comes out of Blacksburg. It was quite a week for the Tech basketball team. It started with Tech sneaking up on a Wake Forest team basking in the glow of the media glare of their top ranking. They were [...]
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 [...]
04/07/08 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 [...]