“That wasn’t for my pleasure; it was for yours.” – Rashad McCants, describing to the media his impressive stuffing of Theodis Tarver’s dunk attempt in last nights UNC – Georgia Tech game.

This just in – Carolina is good. Very good. They took Georgia Tech apart and basically ended the game in the first half. They were flying all over the court, tipping passes, blocking shots (McCants alone had three gorgeous blocks), getting out on the break, making the extra pass, hitting the open shot – they…

I’ve complained about ACC expansion many times in the past and I fully promise to do it some more, but this weekend I had a little revelation – two extra ACC teams means one more game over the weekend! That was pretty cool actually, having a fifth game, even if it did bring us Virginia…

There are certain laws of life that are so immutable, so ingrained that we never even think of them anymore. You don’t question gravity; you just know that it’s there and if you jump, you’ll fall. The sun will rise. The grass will grow. Clemson will play in the Thursday Night Les Robinson Invitational Play-In…

It was a rough week for the ACC. NC State had two bad losses. Well, actually one horrendous loss to St. John’s where they scored a whopping 10 points in the first half and were down at one point 39-14. You might recall that St. Johns is pretty bad. The next loss came just three…

I’m a bit of a stats geek. I like playing around with numbers and seeing what I can learn. Maybe it’s the engineer side of me. When it comes to evaluating basketball performance, the standard measures like points, rebounds or assists per game just don’t do a good enough job. They isolate only one aspect…

Back at the beginning of the football season, instead of predicting the order of finish of the teams, I ranked the coaches. My reasoning was that predicting final outcomes was damn near impossible, but I could weigh the relative strengths of the coaches. It turns out that my coach ranking came closer to predicting the…

It was an interesting weekend in the ACC, with the first two conference games, two teams heading out west to play tough opponents and two games against tough Big 12 opponents. The two farthest travelers, Georgia Tech and NC State each lost to Gonzaga and Washington, respectively. Neither loss was terribly surprising as both of…

An astute reader of mine sent me an email this morning asking if NC State’s lofty #9 ranking wasn’t the result of some national pro-ACC bias. His argument is that while the Wolfpack began the season at #19, they’ve moved up ten notches while beating a whopping collection of nobodies. I checked it out and…

I’ve gotten a ton of search hits from people looking for info and pics on Denny Neagle’s prostitute. I can’t blame them. She’s some kinda woman! So, I thought I’d help folks out and post a few more pics of the fetching lady of the night. Here she is relaxing at home – Here she…