Time for my yearly Tommy Bowden Is On The Hotseat article. Only this year, Jeff Quinton of Fanblogs already wrote it for me. He has a nice wrap up of just why Tiger fans are angry – losing at Wake for the second straight time, largely because of a very curious failed fake field goal…

Do you like poker? Are you very patient? Are you an inveterate geek? Well, then this tournament is for you! It’s an international online poker tournament played entirely via email. For us old geeks, this will likely remind you of the pre-web days when listservs were the really cool Internet (cough, cough … BITNET) tools.…

I’m not above a little juvenile humor. Hell, I’m almost below it. So here’s your little slice of cheap humor heaven, courtesy of The Airing Of Grievances.

The NBDL announced yesterday that starting next season, there will be official ties between NBA and NBDL teams that will allow NBA teams to send players down to play in the minors. Now, some folks will say that this is yet another blow against college basketball, but I disagree. I think the damage has already…

Caulton Tudor has a well-written piece today on how big this weekend’s game with Carolina is for Chuck Amato. Often, newspaper columnists, Tudor included, go to extremes in an effort to get attention and sell papers. This article offered plenty of opportunity for hyperbole, but I don’t think Tudor crossed that line. He plainly pointed…

I hope to get a weekend preview up at some point today – afterall, this is the only weekend all year when every ACC team plays – but meanwhile, you can check out these links for plenty o’ good readin’. The guys at ACC Basketblog have a smorgasbord of fantastic ACC football links today. Start…

Next time you hear someone say that soccer players are pussies, tell them this story. Bundesliga (that’s the German league) player Chavdar Yankow (of Hanover) took a cleat to the jimmie early in a recent match. The kick opened a nearly two inch gash in his penis which he noticed when his shorts filled with…

Chuck Amato says that his Wolfpack “is not an undisciplined football team.” OK, Chuck. If you say so. We’ll just ignore the twelve penalties, including several personal fouls. And that running into the kicker that turned a field goal into a touchdown. Oh and that fair catch inside the one yard line. Those things aren’t…

Florida State’s Travis Johnson was a dominant defensive lineman last year in the ACC. And from the way he’s starting out, he’s going to be a dominant pro too – at least in the postgame interviews. Check out his choice memories of playing college ball: My first college start was against Duke, but that doesn’t…

Though kickoff isn’t scheduled until 3:30, they start coming early – 15 minutes, 30 minutes, even an hour. The line of cars on Deacon Boulevard is backed up for an entire quarter of a mile in two directions. Traffic is snarled everywhere within a two-block radius of the stadium. Any driver who happens to find…