This is an interesting, if not too long, look at Scooter Sherrill, both before and after his NC State career. It’s easy to forget how hyped he was coming in to State. He never really had the impact everyone thought he would, although he was a solid player. Scooter sounds more than a bit disappointed…

The new John Paul Jones Arena (adjacent to the Jimmy Page Parking Lot and Robert Plant Parkway) at Virginia sounds like it will be a very cool place to see a basketball game. It will be everything that University Hall is not – big, loud and intimidating. They’ve designed it so that the seats are…

Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer will not attend this week’s SEC media days in Alabama because he’s worried he’ll be subpoenaed. Only in the SEC.

The ACC media put out their preseason football picks and as was the case the previous twelve years, Floridsa State is their pick for first. They must have that part printed in ink. I guess Duke at #9 (or #11 now) is also written in permanent marker. The two new schools, Miami and Virginia Tech,…

Even with the graduations of stars Philip Rivers and Matt Schaub (as well as Maryland’s Scott McBrien), the ACC is loaded with good QBs this year. Chris Rix of FSU and Brock Berlin of Miami will get the most national publicity, but Clemson’s Charlie Whithurst is probably the best in the league. Darian Durant of…

This Andy Katz article has a bunch of juicy nuggets. It’s about how the three Wake Forest and two UNC players are getting along while trying out for the national junior team. Evidently, just before Katz published it, Rashad McCants was cut from the team. A pretty surprising cut, don’t you think? Justin Gray is…

This is a good read on Billy Jones, the first black basketball player in the ACC. Jones played at Maryland starting in 1965. It’s amazing how things have changed in the forty years since. Actually, you could have said the same thing 20 years ago.

Yoni at College Basketball has a guest columnist on his site with an interesting article on why high schoolers skipping college is good for the NBA. You may have heard about this same theory a few months back with Michael McCann first published his article. It got a lot of play in newspapers around the…

University of Florida linebacker Taurean Charles was arrested after trying to smash the head of a fellow student with a beer keg. Nice story. I wonder if FSU is worried. Florida and Miami seem to be pulling ahead in the recent arrests competition. Maybe FSU has too many pansy, momma’s boys on their team.

Whenever I get details like this about what college basketball recruiting entails, I’m amazed. Can this really be the best way? It sounds nuts to me. On the flip side, concentrating like this probably helps keep these guys from bothering kids all year long.