Now that Bill Simmons has his own page on espn.com, I won’t be linking to him as much. He will be writing so much, that it would be redundant. When he writes a particularly good one though, I still will. This one is a good one. Simmons is at his best when he’s writing about…

In 2008, the NCAA Tournament first and second round returns to the RBC Center in Raleigh.

TheInsiders.com has a preview of NC State’s football team. The big question mark of course is QB play. Who will replace Philip Rivers and how well will he do?

Gary Williams’ former friend-in-sweat and assistant coach Billy Hahn is in some trouble at LaSalle where he’s the head coach. Evidently, he has a few players charged with rapes. In one case, a women’s player says she was raped by a men’s team player. In that case, Hahn and the women’s coach reportedly influenced her…

The DukeBasketballReport has a guy reporting on the Nike Camp.

The ACC has outlawed all artificial noisemakers at sporting events. The banned devices include whistles, cowbells and those obnoxious Thunderstix. Evidently, UNC has had a similar policy in place at the Dean Dome for years now.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches is submitting a proposal to the NCAA that includes adding a fifth year of eligibility. What a great idea! This would help fight off the loss of talent to the pros (in basketball and football) and reward the players who really want to be in college. It would accomplish…

Michael Wilbon picks up a topic that every sportswriter in the country has covered, the decline of the US Olympic basketball team.

Who has the best biguns? TheDevilsDen.com ranks the ACC offensive lines.

Ken Pomeroy makes a good (albeit brief) case for putting more time on the shotclock. He advocates going back to a 45 second clock and his plan is to increase scoring. It sounds counterintuitive, but his theory is that it would give teams more time to find good shots against zone defenses. Fewer zones means…