Duke freshman DeMarcus Nelson will be out for 2-4 weeks with a

Check out this video from a Canadian dunk contest. Good lord. Dunk contests have gotten pretty stale for me, but that was one impressive display. The last dunk in particular is just sick. I did some poking around and found out the kid’s name. He’s Henry Bekkering and he’s a redshirt freshman at Eastern Washington.

New East Carolina AD Terry Holland seems like a really good guy and of course he has great ties to the ACC. One of the things he wants to do as ECU AD is bring ACC basketball teams into Greenville. Uh no, that’s not gonna happen, Terry. I think he realizes this, but he’s gonna…

I didn’t link to any stories earlier in the week, but in case you missed it, there were rumors circulating that UNC was going to reassign athletics director Dick Baddour to another job. Of course, “reassign” is friendly-talk for “fire.” Almost as quickly as the rumor got out, UNC put out a statement (sorry, you…

The News & Observer has a pretty interesting article up about NC State defensive coordinator Reggie Herring. He sounds a bit like a cartoon character – a stereotype of an overly macho football coach.

It seems like every team in the ACC has had at least one Eastern European player. Every team except Duke that is. Looks like that’s gonna change next year as Duke just got a commitment from little-known recruit Martynas Pocius. Although he isn’t well-known, you can bet that he’s pretty good and Duke feels like…

It’s pretty obvious that I like sports. It’s also pretty obvious that I waste too much time thinking and writing about sports. Still, I like to think that I maintain a pretty good balance in my life. I don’t live or die based on the performances of athletes on TV and the games don’t completely…

When Tony Kornheiser is on his game, he’s as good and funny a sportswriter as there is. In today’s article, he’s on. Give it a read. Side note: Did you see that “fight” between the Wizards and Bulls? What a joke. It started when Larry Hughes commited a horrible cheap shot by pushing Kirk Hinrich…

Like I said in an earlier posting, there are dozens if not hundreds of team preview articles floating around on the web. I’m not going to be linking to too many of them, because there’s just no point. If you’re interested at all, you will have already found a few to your liking. That said,…

The NCAA released its latest graduation rates, with numbers from the class that entered in 1997-98. I really don’t put too much weight in these numbers, because they are so flawed. Transfers and players who turn pro early count against schools, which really isn’t fair. For this reason, basketball numbers in particular are flawed, because…