So, last Friday news comes out that Virginia football coach Al Groh had signed a new contract. The new deal is huge, paying Groh about $1.7M a year. One point seven million a year! I was pretty stunned by the numbers. It doesn’t seem that long ago that Steve Spurrier was the first college coach…

Julius Hodge won an NBA Live 06 video game tournament against other NBA rookies by repeatedly fouling, a la Jim Valvano’s Cardiac Pack. Hodge beat former Tar Heel Sean May in the finals because May couldn’t figure out how to hit free throws. Pretty funny, in that Jules’ strategy accurately sums up his game. Hodge…

You know how you always read those quotes from coaches, GMs, players, etc about how they don’t read Internet message boards? Well, one Atlanta Hawks owner certainly does. He not only reads them, but he posts from time to time! Bruce Levenson of the Atlanta Spirit, the infighting group that owns the Hawks, posted on…

Need a handy schedule for ACC football games? Joe Ovies at 850 The Buzz (a radio station and blog out of Raleigh) put together a very sweet one. He did it up in Excel and used the helmets of each team. It looks very cool. Does your company have a nice color printer? You might…

Kevin Donahue of Fanblogs.com is an inveterate Florida State football fan. Kevin, like quite a few Seminoles fans, is fed up with offensive coordinator Jeff Bowden. Apparently, Saint Bobby agrees with the view that Jeff ain’t getting it done … to a point. He hired Marc McHale, the former Marshall OC, but didn’t make him…

Ivan Maisel has an interesting article where he sits down with Ralph Friedgen to review some game film. Maisel is obviously very impressed with the Fridge’s ability to break down film, and it sounds like Coach Friedgen shares the feeling. BTW, the kind of info that this article hints at, technical football coach stuff like…

Ljubomir Stamenich, a three-year starter at defensive end for Virginia died this week of leukemia. Stamenich’s last season with the Cavaliers was 2001. He was just 26 years old. Evidently, his leukemia was discovered less than a month ago. What a terrible story.

I was thinking that maybe I’d write an article about which ACC football coaches were on the proverbial hot seat, but Fanblogs beat me to it and did a mighty fine job. Check it out. I do have a couple of extra comments though. I’m nearly positive that both John Bunting and Chan Gailey are…

The US had a critical, if not too difficult, World Cup qualifier last night against Trinidad and Tobago. As expected, the good guys won. Sure, it was only 1-0 when it should have been more like 4- or 5-0, but a win’s a win. With those three points, the US has all but clinched a…

I didn’t think I’d ever be posting about Chris Duhon signing a big NBA contract. But fair is fair. The kid earned it and I’m giving him his props. Duhon was a very good college player, but never really stepped up to the superstar level that he hinted at as a freshman. He seemed to…