It’s possible that a fifth year of eligibility for football could come as early as next year. A great point brought up in this article that I missed in my earlier writings is that a large percentage of football players already play five years. They redshirt their first year and then play four, many as…

Who knew that there were universities that give full scholarships to wheelchair basketball players? I certainly didn’t. That’s pretty cool, because you know that they aren’t selling tickets to those games. The kid in this article sounds like a pretty good kid. I’ll admit to knowing very little about wheelchair basketball, but I do dig…

I have seen ads for these products before – stuff you can drink to ensure a clean drug test – but I never believed they’d work. I just figured that they were to scam nervous pot heads. According to Ricky Williams, I was wrong. Ricky claims that the reason he failed a test is that…

This is an interesting list of quotes from ACC football quotes from the ACC Kickoff meetings. Check how many coaches make negative comments about expansion. A little late now, boys. The coach that made the strangest comments is Ralph Friedgen. He indirectly (directly?) blamed Myles Brand for losing players to other schools for academic reasons.…

With Ricky Williams’ surprising retirement this week, Page 2 has produced their list of the greatest early retirements. It’s actually a pretty good list, especially for Page 2, which seems to screw these sorts of thing up usually. I didn’t remember that Borg was only 26 when he retired. That’s incredible. He seemed so much…

This is an interesting, if not too long, look at Scooter Sherrill, both before and after his NC State career. It’s easy to forget how hyped he was coming in to State. He never really had the impact everyone thought he would, although he was a solid player. Scooter sounds more than a bit disappointed…

The new John Paul Jones Arena (adjacent to the Jimmy Page Parking Lot and Robert Plant Parkway) at Virginia sounds like it will be a very cool place to see a basketball game. It will be everything that University Hall is not – big, loud and intimidating. They’ve designed it so that the seats are…

Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer will not attend this week’s SEC media days in Alabama because he’s worried he’ll be subpoenaed. Only in the SEC.

The ACC media put out their preseason football picks and as was the case the previous twelve years, Floridsa State is their pick for first. They must have that part printed in ink. I guess Duke at #9 (or #11 now) is also written in permanent marker. The two new schools, Miami and Virginia Tech,…

Even with the graduations of stars Philip Rivers and Matt Schaub (as well as Maryland’s Scott McBrien), the ACC is loaded with good QBs this year. Chris Rix of FSU and Brock Berlin of Miami will get the most national publicity, but Clemson’s Charlie Whithurst is probably the best in the league. Darian Durant of…