The rumors have been going strong for a couple of weeks now, but it’s looking like it’s a done deal. The evil Steve Spurrier is going to Columbia, SC. Sure, they are still hedging a bit, but it sounds like everyone knows what’s going to happen. Lou Holtz will retire after the season and hand…

It’s nothing like the famed basketball games, but Duke and UNC do still have something of a football rivalry. Recently, it’s been a game less about who’s better than about who’s worse, but still, they don’t like each other and that has to count for something, right? This year, the game has a little extra…

Alright, let me hear you out there. Who’s fired up about the start of Ivy League basketball?!! Huh? Anyone? No? Ah well, me neither. I have nothing against it, mind you, but it is the Ivy League. That said, the SportsProf wrote up a very long and impressive review of the upcoming season in the…

It seems that Stwart Mandel of Sports Illustrated thinks that Charlie Whitehurst is the biggest dissapointment in college football. I can’t argue with him. In fact, I was thinking that very thing just the other day. It’s really hard to explain why he’s so bad this year, tenth in the conference in pass efficiency. Lack…

It was a good weekend for Virginia football. No, not American football; the Cavaliers lost to Miami on Saturday. No, it was a good weekend for football, as in futbol. Soccer. The fourth seed Cavaliers won their ninth ACC Tournament Championship (there have been 18 ACC soccer tournaments), beating Maryland 2-1. Shortly after Virginia continued…

This is a pretty funny (in a cute sort of way) SI piece on the various reasons to love or hate Duke basketball. I’m sure the Duke hates, who are legion, could come up with a few hundred more reasons, actually.

Things are getting even hairier, if that’s possible, in Columbus, Ohio. Jim Tressel has earned quite a lot of leeway and benefit of the doubt there, due mainly to his national title just three seasons ago. The allegations of one disgruntled player, even if corroborated by a few others, probably wouldn’t be enough to bring…

This is an unusual story. Almost every year, the preseason is filled with stories about basketball players who put on 20 pounds of muscle over the summer. Now that they are big and strong, they’ll be better able to make it through the long season. Well, not this time. This article is about how Duke’s…

When NC State and Florida State play tonight on ESPN, it won’t be quite the same spectacle it has been. In recent years, it was the old and mighty versus the young and frisky. Pupil vs. Mentor. A very Oedipal feel as NC State tried to validate their new “Florida State Junior” attitude by beating…

The NBA is always good for a funny story or three. The league is filled with insular, egotistical, wealthy man-children who routinely commit acts of profound stupidity. And comedy. But this one tops the cake. I think it may be the funniest NBA story ever. You may have heard yesterday that Ron Artest was suspended…