With Wake Forest not just on the decline but in full blown death spiral, I’ve been thinking a lot of Chris Chase. You see, Chris has always hated Skip Prosser. I thought he was overly hard on Wake’s coach the last couple of years, but now I’m seeing that maybe Chris was right all along.…

The football recruiting period for the class of 2006 wrapped up yesterday and the ACC didnt’ do very well. At all. The growth to twelve teams with the addition of football powers Miami and Virginia Tech along with northern school Boston College was supposed to vault the ACC to the top of the national conference…

The DBR has a number of interesting recruiting columns up today. The first is a brief review (and list of links) about a high school game featuring two Duke recruits and two UNC recruits. Of particular interest is the love being given to future Tar Heel point guard Tywon Lawson. From what I read here…

If you watched the Duke-Virginia Tech basketball game last night, you probably heard the story. Hokie center Coleman Collins’ dad is very suffering from lung cancer and has become very ill. Evidently he is not expected to make it through the weekend. Collins’ brother was at the game and the two of them were going…

You want to know the real reason why Duke lost? Georgetown wanted it more? Shelden Williams had a bad game? Poor point guard play? Sun spots? Nope. Karma. Karma killed their perfect season. “Karma,” you ask? Yep. Karma turned it’s angry face toward Duke the second that Coach Mike Krzyzewski said this about the prospects…

I missed posting last week when Maryland’s Travis Garrison was arrested and charged with assault and a sex offense. It was a significant story, but I just didn’t get to it early enough, so I let it go. For the record, Garrison was suspended for one game for the assault. More on that in a…

Gee, just what Duke needs, a shooting guard who can hit threes in bunches. Jon Scheyer, who will be a freshman at Duke next year, scored 21 points in a 75-second span of a loss the other night. Incredible. He had two steals, hit five threes and six free throws before fouling out. Think Maryland…

You might recall that I mentioned that I was on AOL’s Internet radio show the other day. On my segment, I talked about Duke and how I thought they were unlikely to go undefeated. Well, if this is an accurate depiction (scroll down), my words angered the mighty Mike Krzyzewski. He looks pissed, doesn’t he?

The N&O has a nice little catch-up piece on the job Matt Doherty is doing this year at Florida Atlantic. It sounds like he’s doing a nice job of rehabbing his career and image. The Owls (shouldn’t he be coaching at a school named the Eagles?) are 6-1 in league play after going 10-17 overall…

I guess I’m old. I can clearly remember when the Dean E Smith Student Activity Center, aka The Dean Dome, opened. I wasn’t even that young – I was in high school. And now that building is turning 20 and is considered “middle-aged.” As far as basketball arenas go, the Dean Dome is a pretty…