Ken Pomeroy is on the warpath again. He loves correcting incorrect but popular notions. One of his favorite targets is the myth that free throw shooting is a lost art. The latest article that Ken attacks is by Rice head coach Willis Wilson. Wilson claims that “percentages from the charity stripe have declined in recent…

Former world and US track champion Michelle Collins was suspended for eight years by the US Anti Doping Agency for taking various illegal subtances. What’s particularly interesting about this is that Collins never failed any tests. She was convicted solely based on documents that detailed her relationship with BALCO. The documents specified what she was…

Yeah, it was an easy and obvious title, but sometimes you have to pluck the low-lying fruit. Anyway, congratulations to Coach K for reaching yet another milestone, win number 700. Krzyzewski is still going strong, so expect these sorts of career achievement celebrations to continue off and on for the next ten years or so.…

In their Return to Reynolds series, GoPack.com put up an article about the game in 1983 when Derrick Whittenburg broke his foot. I’m really glad they picked this one, because it’s one of those significant details of history that is often forgotten. That ’83 State team is of course famous for running the table in…

There are certain rules that fans have about players on opposing hoops teams. You always hate the good white players, you might like the really good dunkers (depends on how good an overall player they are and if they dunked on your team) and you always like the really, REALLY big guys. I don’t know…

Heath Miller won the prestigious John Mackey award yesterday. The what, you ask? You know, the Mackey award, given out to the nation’s top tight end. Oh, that one. Anyway, while it’s not really a household name award, it is a good one and it’s the only national award an ACC player is going to…

The ACC released 2004 All-ACC Football teams the other day. One of the things that struck me was that despite adding two very good teams to the conference, this is one of the weakest sets of offensive skill position players that I can remember. No offense to the players selected, who all had good years,…

GoPack.com has a great little article up on David Thompson’s famous fall in Reynolds Coliseum. The game was a second round NCAA tournament game against a physical Pittsburgh squad. I was pretty young when this happened and not yet following sports, so I only learned about it much later. From everything I’ve read and seen…

In a move that was somewhat overshadowed by bigger sports news (steroids, Notre Dame, the BCS mess, etc), NC State defensive coordinator Reggie Herring packed up and left Raleigh to take the same position at Arkansas. This could be a pretty serious blow to State. Herring was there only one year and quickly changed State…

Denny Neagle was arrested and will likely have his $19 million contract voided for the hooker in this picture. Wow. I have nothing really to add here, I just thought that was about the funniest picture I’ve ever seen. Who looks at that and thinks “oh yeah, I got to get me some of that,…