StateFans Nation found a nice article at rivals.com about former Wolfpack star Rodney Monroe. Monroe, of course with Chris Corchiani, made up Fire & Ice, the potent NC State backcourt of the late Valvano years. It’s always fun to catch up with former ACC stars who didn’t quite make it in the NBA. Oh, the…

Hey, did you hear who won the award for the best basketball player under six feet? Len Bias. That’s the joke that the speaker at my high school overheard while she was in the bathroom before her speech. It was less than two years after the death of her son and now Lonise Bias was…

I was debating whether or not to post about J.J. Redick’s arrest for DWI the other night. I mean, it’s a newsworthy story, but then it’s not really that big of a deal. Mostly, I considered posting it just for the opportunity to make some jokes. But then I went and read Chris Chase’s take.…

Surely you know by now. Despite years of building and anticipation, the United States showed up on the pitch yesterday against the Czech Republic and promptly took a dump at midfield. It was ugly. Actually, before I go into what went wrong, and there was plenty, I should point out the good stuff. The US…

I don’t have time for an in-depth post this morning, so I’ll just go with this – USA! USA! USA!

For a majority of the world, this is one of the biggest sporting days of the past four years – the opening day of the 2006 World Cup. I’m pumped! There are two games today, host Germany takes on Costa Rica at noon and Poland faces Ecuador at 3 (EST). Having the host team open…

The NCAA is finally starting to do something about the nasty trend of artificial high schools for basketball players, by disallowing credits from 15 “schools.” Of course, being the NCAA, they pretty much whiffed on the actual diploma mills (none of the 15 schools still have teams and some never did), but it looks like…

I love Terry Holland and I have a soft spot for Ricky Stokes too, but this just isn’t right. Ricky Stokes, once the spunky point guard who helped take Virginia to the 1984 Final Four, is now the coach at ECU. Stokes had a rough first year, going 8-20 and has responded by revoking the…

With the World Cup coming up and given that most Americans don’t really know the game’s history that well, I figured I’d do my part to help out. AskMen.com has a nice article running down their picks for the 20 best soccer players of all time. Give it a read. It’s a nice primer on…

David Glenn did a little reading and put together a couple of table showing how each of the major men’s ACC programs fared in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rates (APR) report. As Glenn reports, these numbers came out in February, but no one seemed to write much about them. I remember looking for the full…