Wow.  This is terrible news.   Skip Prosser apparently had a heart attack this morning while jogging and died.  He was 56 years old.  By all accounts, he was an extremely likable and good man.   Sad, sad, sad.  I feel terrible for his family, his friends, his current and former players and all Wake…

I mentioned previously that I would be posting a third-party football preview, and here it is!  Tom from MadduxSports.com put together a nice preview of the 2007 ACC football season for me simply for the quid pro quo of linking back to his site.  The Coastal Division is coming next.  Enjoy! ACC Atlantic Division Preview…

You may have noticed – things have been a bit slow around here. With ACC basketball and football both deep in their offseason, I just haven’t been able to work up the energy to put out too many posts. Been busy at work too. Sure, there have been a number of things that I’d like…

There’s just something about Charles Barkley. He’s not the smartest guy in the world, but he’s certainly smart. He’s not the funniest guy in the world, but he’s certainly funny. He’s not the best basketball analyst in the world, but he’s certainly a great one. He’s not any one thing, but as a whole, he’s…

William Maloney, AKA Eagle In Atlanta, wrote a column last week for his AOL FanHouse site. In it, he ranks the ACC coaches using an objective measure – the coach’s winning percentage versus the school’s all-time winning percentage. It’s hard to find objective ways to compare coaches, but this is a pretty good one. (any…

I love ACC basketball. I love statistics. I probably spend an inordinate amount of time gathering, reading and thinking about ACC basketball stats, but I’ve got nothing on this guy. Michael O’Hara has collected and is publishing a book with box scores and game reports for every ACC men’s basketball game ever played. Wow. And…

When the NCAA released its 2007 APR report last week, it generated the usual slate of articles looking at how local schools fared. Those that did well were praised and excuses were generally provided for those who didn’t do well. Normally I would have written something about the report, but it just seemed repetitive this…

The other night, I was playing in a local rec league basketball game. My team was getting drilled by the top team in the league. One of their players showed up for just the second half. He is a short, overweight, unathletic guy. If you saw him, you’d never think he was a good basketball…

Eagle In Atlanta has an interesting post today about some controversy involving former BC and current NC State coach Tom O’Brien. The story, as detailed in this ESPN.com piece, is that O’Brien promised safety Ryan Glasper that he’d redshirt him last year while Glasper recovered from hip surgery. In the middle of the season, just…

This is crazy. Almost all college students root for their own school in every sport. In a few cases, you find a kid who sticks to their childhood team despite going to a different school. But an athlete rooting against his own school (not in his sport)? That’s unheard of (by me)! To make this…