Do you love basketball? Do you like basketball? If so, then you owe it to yourself to watch the US team play in the FIBA World Championships. Yeah, the games are at bad times, but set your TiVo (get one first, if you don’t. You MUST have a Tivo.) and thank me later. Our boys…

If I had to rank the 2002 national championship Maryland Terrapins in order of “most likely to be arrested for firing a gun out of a moving car,” I’d probably have gone something like this: 1. Byron Mouton 2. Billy Hahn 3. Chris Wilcox 4. Steve Blake … 12. Hassan Fofanananadana (I know – he…

I’ve fallen way behind in the stories I’d like to comment on. Several of those stories seem to have now paired up, so that’s how I’m going to address them – as twofers. Duke – Man, has it been a rough stretch for the Duke athletic department or what? You had the lacrosse scandal, AD…

I know I haven’t posted much lately, but I am still around. I’m not trapped under a large object, adrift at sea or finding myself in India. Just been busy with work and sort of taking things slowly in the college sports off season. As I’ve mentioned before, one sporting event that I have been…

This is the way the World Cup ends Not with a bang, but with a whistle The United States wasn’t playing a great game, but they were playing well enough to give themselves a chance. Like they did in each of their first two games, they controlled possession for most of the first half, but…

I was checking out my site today, replacing a few images that went missing in the Great Crash of Aught Six and it got me thinking about my Name That Site series. I haven’t done one in a while and dammit, it’s time. The problem was what to pick? I needed a good one. A…

After five long days of agonizing, excuse-making and short-sighted exclamations that this is why soccer will never be popular in the United States, our boys kick it off again tomorrow against Italy. Sure, the Italians are a world power and we will be severe underdogs, but anything can happen in one game and I’m staying…

You want to win an NBA title? You better get yourself some ACC players, pronto! Draft them, trade for them, sign them – just get them. Why? I’ll tell you why – since 1990, there have been 16 NBA Finals. In twelve of those years, one team had more players from the ACC than the…

My main focus on this site is discussion of ACC sports, mostly basketball in football – in that order. While I love those sports, and many others, there is no doubt in my mind what the greatest sporting event in the world is – soccer’s World Cup. The NCAA basketball tournament is great, nearly perfect,…

The Virginia Cavaliers – 2006 Men’s Lacrosse National Champions. Virginia spanked Massachusetts 15-7 yesterday to earn the program’s fourth national title and the third for coach Dom Starsia. Virginia jumped out to a 4-1 first quarter lead on the underdog Minutemen, but just as they did on Saturday against Syracuse, the Cavs lost their way…