Mike at Braves & Birds found a fantastic site the other day. It’s a website that collects and reports ratings of college football, basketball and baseball coaches. The ratings are done exclusively by current and former players of those coaches. Talk about your interesting inside info! The basketball ratings don’t seem to be very mature…

Michael over at Braves & Birds has a very interesting post up about a fascinating table published in the Orlando Sentinel. The table lists the total revenues and expenses of (nearly) every Division 1 athletic program, along with the same numbers for just the women’s programs and football teams. Talk about your juicy data. You…

With Chris Paul announcing that he was taking his skills to the NBA, I got to thinking about other ACC players who have gone pro after just one or two years. I don’t think any player can really be considered one of the conference’s all-time greats with just one or two years in the league.…

It seems the only news out these days about ACC basketball deals with who is or is not going to take the Virginia job and who is or is not going to jump to the NBA. As a public service to my loyal readers, I’ll run down a few of the most recent ones and…

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to do a writeup about the National Championship, but with that game late on Monday night followed by a lot of work (real work) and taxes … well here we are. First off, congratulations to the University of North Carolina. It’s gotta feel great to be a…

I was wrong. I admit it. I said last week that I thought Michigan State would beat UNC in the Final Four. I don’t mind eating crow on this one because A) I wanted UNC to win and B) I’ve watched sports for way too long to think I can accurately pick games. To be…

Man, I never saw this coming. Virginia Athletic Director Craig Littlepage announced last night that UVA had hired former North Carolina coach Dean Smith as their new basketball coach. Obviously, Coach Smith is too old to coach for long, but he says he plans to coach for at least five years and he’ll reevaluate after…

Since I’m not a responsible member of any sort of media institution, I have the ability – nay, the obligation – to spread rumors. An intrepid reader (and power-blogger himself) sent me two juicy rumors last night. I figured I’d share them, because that’s what the Internets are for, right? The first is the highly…

Yeah, the weekend games are long over now and have been rehashed to death by everyone with a keyboard … but I’m gonna have a quick go at them too. Better late than never, right? First of all, I think I’ll point out the obvious – that was a quality collection of regional finals! Incredible.…

Man, what a great long weekend of basketball! We had it all – upsets, heartbreakers, buzzer-beaters, great individual performances, comebacks, etc. Basically, last weekend served as an example of everything that is great about college basketball. The thing is, there was so much goodness, that I couldn’t find time to write about it. I’ll try…