Somehow I’ve managed to avoid congratulating Virginia Tech on wrapping up their first ACC Championship this past weekend. They couldn’t have earned it in grander fashion, beating Miami in the Orange Bowl to win the title outright. I’d have to say that the job that Frank Beamer did with this team has to rank among…

First, let me say that this is my second post on the (unofficial) ACC – SEC Challenge, and it’s already the second time I have to admit to screwing up. As helpful reader Kevin Ryan pointed out to me, I completely spaced on the Virginia – Auburn game from Friday night. Considering that I’m a…

A very nice start by the ACC, no? Of course, it could have been better, but Wisconsin played by far their best game of the year in beating Maryland. The Badgers played some very tough defense (as they always do) and the Terps missed the front ends of two critical one-and-ones in the last couple…

The ACC has official tie-ins with six bowls, the BCS and five others The five bowls are the Gator, Peach, Champs Sports, Continental Tire and MPC Computers Bowls. They select in that order. Other than the BCS, there is no real rule on what team the other bowls have to select. The Gator and Peach…

The first week or so of the college hoops season has come and gone. As always, there were a few surprises. Instead of addressing each separately, I’ll just mush ’em all together in here. NC State is better than expected Of the six ranked ACC teams, NC State is the lowest. They were picked by…

I often avoid writing about the “big” topics of the day, because you’re gonna read all about it, facts and opinions, everywhere else. I can’t compete with espn.com, so I don’t try. In this case, I’m going to make an exception. I saw the Friday Night Fight not too long after it happened, and have…

There’s a phenomenon in semiconductors known as avalanche breakdown. Normally, a p-n junction (also known as a diode) allows current to flow in only one direction. If you apply a negative voltage to the junction, it doesn’t allow any current to flow backwards. To a point. Eventually, if you keep increasing the voltage, the junction…

As I was parking my car coming back for lunch, I heard one of those Campbell’s Chunky Soup commercials. You know the ones, with Donovan McNabb’s mom? Well, in this one, she was with “the boys” on a road game trying to keep their spirits high. How did she do this? By starting a sing-a-long…

ESPN.com put up some pretty hard-hitting articles today centered on Maurice Clarett’s claims that Ohio State paid him money, gave him cars, put him in joke classes and faked his grades. Pretty big time accusations. You can read the overview here and the detailed Clarett interview here. Ohio State’s non-response is here. There is a…

Here are the yards Miami has given up in its last four games: Louisville 507 NC State 440 North Carolina 545 Clemson 371 Against Louisville, the excuse was well, the Cardinals have a really good offense and they played a great game. Miami showed they can win when they aren’t playing their best. Against NC…