Now this is funny. You’ve probably picked up on the frustration in Detroit with the state of their football team. The team has generally been bad for decades, but ever since Matt Millen took over as GM, things have gotten even worse, despite drafting a wide receiver in the first round every year. The Lion…

This past weekend (yeah, it’s been a busy week for me), Maryland’s men’s soccer team defeated New Mexico to win the national championship. All championships are special, but this one was extra nice for the Terps, since it was their fourth straight trip to the College Cup (that’s soccer’s name for the final four. The…

Every wonder who the most corrupt college basketball programs are? Every wonder which one was/is the worst of them all? Well, so did Bob Cook of Flak Magazine, so he picked the top 32 and made a tournament out of it. The champion? Kentucky barely edged out UCLA largely due to a longstanding tradition of…

J.J. Redick is easily the most hated player in college basketball. He’s the most hated player in years. In fact, you probably have to go back to another pair of Dukies, Christian Laettner and Bobby Hurley, to find someone who generates so much ill will. But for whatever reasons you have for not liking the…

He’s done it again. This time, Al Featherston writes about what it means to be not just the #1 team in the country, but the #1 program. He reviews how a team gets there and what it means when they play their schedule. As always, Featherston uses Duke as his centerpiece, but he’s not really…

Barry Jacobs has an interesting piece at the DBR on freshman who’ve started a bunch of games at UNC. He lists those who played the most and, as you might imagine, it’s an impressive list of ballers. One interesting note: Minutes played, and starts, were carefully guarded secrets at North Carolina during most of Dean…

You’re going to hear this roughly a zillion times this year, so I’ll go ahead and edjumacate you on the facts – yes, J.J. Redick has a very good chance to become Duke’s all-time leading scorer and Shelden Williams has a shot at becoming Duke’s all-time leading rebounder. An article at the DBR breaks it…

Oh happy day! For years, I’ve longed for those glorious days of college when my Spring Break always coincided with the first week of the NCAA Tournament. I’d park myself on a sofa somewhere (even when I was in Daytona) and just watch hoops all day. Great times. These days I have a job and…

One of the basic elements of any strong football program is quality assistants who stay a long time. Look at Virginia Tech where Frank Beamer has kept guys like Bud Foster and Bryan Stinespring forever. Florida State is another classic example. Mark Richt, Chuck Amato and Mickey Andrews were there forever and the Noles kept…

Al Featherston has an article up at the Duke Basketball Report today that just might be his best yet. It’s a great look back at Duke’s football and basketball history and the paths they took to get where they are today – the two most disparately successful programs in Division 1 today. Featherston points out…