Man. This is a disaster in the making. The US men’s basketball team just lost an exhibition game to Italy 95-78. Italy. Seventeen points. I have nothing to say.

If you didn’t get enough sleaze from that last link, here’s another. It doesn’t have too much new info, but it does have some good quotes. Think about that $3.5M Vaccaro was given by Reebok to woo teams. He mentioned that he had 10 top teams and about 25-30 others. Assume he paid about $30…

This is an interesting Q&A with unctuous shoe huckster Sonny Vaccaro. You’re going to want to take a shower after reading this. My favorite quote, “No one went as low as I did.” Nope, probably not, Sonny, probably not.

You always hear coaches bitching about losing oral commitments. Players say they are going to Ole State U in the fall and then sign with Adjacent State Tech in the spring. Call it pulling a Curry. Well, it aint just the players who use this maneuver. Coaches do it too, pulling scholarhip offers from players…

In case you had any delusions to the contrary, Duke is still Duke. They’re sending guys to the NBA left and right, but the talent keeps pouring in. Yesterday, 6’6″ Jamal Boykin announced his intention to matriculate at Duke. I couldn’t find an exact ranking for Boykin, but according to this article, he’s not top-20.…

Did you know that Shammond Williams was a Georgian? Not the state, The Republic of Georgia. Believe it or not, the (formerly) aftroed one is now a citizen of the Republic of Georgia (scroll down a little) and playing on their national team. I’m speechless. That may be the weirdest ACC alumni news I’ve ever…

This is an interesting list of how much football revenue each ACC school (including Miami and Virginia Tech last year. The four unabashed football schools are the top four earners, with Clemson at the top. Some of the relative rankings are curious, like UNC earning over $5m per year more than State. I believe their…

Wake Forest guards Justin Gray and Chris Paul and North Carolina forward Sean May led the US U-21 team to the gold medal at the World Championship for Young Men Qualifying Tournament of the Americas (catchy title). Paul and Gray were the starting guards and May led the team in scoring. By all accounts, Paul…

Caulton Tudor has an article up where me makes the argument that the parity of the new ACC football will hurt it. First, he says that too many good teams will make it difficult for the second place team to have enough wins to get an at-large BCS spot. Then, he also complains about the…

I guess this doesn’t really qualify as news, but here goes – Allen Iverson still doesn’t get it. He has no concept of personal responsibility or how to behave on a team. It’s funny, I read several articles about how this Olympic team would be better than the World Championship team that got embarrassed last…