Jeff Quinton has a very cool post on his blog showing (nearly) all of the ACC football stadiums from space via GoogleMaps. Pretty fun. Coincidently, it appears they caught Wallace Wade Stadium during an actual game.

Virginia Tech freshman Marquie Cooke was kicked off the team yesterday by coach Seth Greenberg. Cooke was the first Virginia state player of the year that the Hokies had signed since Dell Curry in 1982. It’s not clear on what Cooke did to warrant getting booted, but I guess it was worse than liquoring up…

NC State’s T.A. McLendon left school a year early to enter the NFL Draft. Unfortunately, the NFL didn’t want to draft him. T.A. sat through the whole weekend and heard the names of three other ACC running backs, including UNC’s Madison Hedgecock, but never got that big call. Instead he had to wait until Monday,…

Shelden Williams released a statement through Duke’s athletic department yesterday that he will not entry the NBA Draft and will return for his senior season. This is bad news for the Duke haters of the world. Very bad news. With both Williams and J.J. Redick returning along with everyone else except for Daniel Ewing, the…

Finding good writing on ESPN’s Page 2 (outside of Bill Simmons) is a bit like looking for basketball trophies in Clemson’s trophy case. You ain’t gonna find much. Which is why I was surprised to happen upon this article about today’s UNC press conference and its impact on the program.

Jeremy Gold over at Turtle Soup seems to hate Duke nearly as much as he likes Maryland. I think he even picks his non-Terp friends by how much they dislike the Blue Devils. Case in point, a buddy of his, a Carolina grad who went to Duke law school (I know a guy who fits…

The News & Observer ran an interesting story yesterday about the new luxury boxes being built at Carter-Finley Stadium. The boxes sound quite nice – a wet bar, sofa, television, cable, high-speed Internet, etc – and they better be. To land one of those suckers, you need to pony up $45,000 or $55,000 a year…

… in a Carolina Blue sky. In a press conference today at 1:30, North Carolina stars Sean May, Raymond Felton and Marvin Williams will announce their intentions for next year. All three are expected to declare for the NBA Draft.

You wouldn’t expect objectivity from the Duke Basketball Report in a story about a former North Carolina coach, and thankfully, we get none in their review of Matt Doherty’s new gig at Florida Atlantic. It’s a nice piece with a few stories of Doh’s UNC career that I hadn’t heard. I also liked two aspects…

Surely you’ve heard by now, but I’ll report it anyway. Virginia has hired former DePaul basketball coach Dave Leitao to replace Pete Gillen. Leitao has a somewhat short but solid resume as a head coach and also worked for long time as an assistant to Jim Calhoun at Connecticut. Here are a ton of links…