Back in October 1997, Dean Smith tried to get motivated to start his 37th season as head basketball coach at UNC and found he couldn’t muster the fire.  Coaching is a hard job and requires immense amounts of commitment and intensity.  When it’s not there, you can’t fake it.  Coach Smith knew the signs and…

You like that cheesy title?  I knew you would.  To continue my recent trend of providing ACC football previews without actually writing my own content, I give you three outstanding compilations of links from the ACCBasketBlog (they aren’t just for basketball anymore!).  I mean, why duplicate what they’ve already done?  There are enough links on…

Last week I posted the first part of a guest preview of ACC football. MadduxSports.com gives us part II now – the Coastal Division ACC Coastal Division Preview from MadduxSports.com Defense, defense, and more defense, that is what the ACC Coastal is about. The Coastal is a rather interesting division to break down. Between quarterback battles,…

Yawwwwn.  Strrrrrrrrrretttttch.  So, what did I miss?  Anything?   [Thumbing through the news of the last couple of months …]  OK, it looks like a few things happened while I was napping.  Guess this is as good of a time as any to shake off the cobwebs and get back to it.    But not just…

I don’t have much experience watching and evaluating high school football talent, but this highlight reel of Georgia Tech running back recruit Jonathon Dwyer is pretty damn impressive. I don’t know, maybe all D-1 RB recruits look like that against high school competition, but even so, it’s fun to watch.

Mike Krzyzewski takes a lot of grief from fans and media, much of it deserved, for being a bit of a pain in the ass. He can be arrogant, gruff and condescending – all common traits among the super-driven, but he can also be a hell of a good guy as well. The Duke Basketball…

The New York Times published an article yesterday about a recent study on the racial makeup of referees and their calls in NBA games. The study (you can read it here), done by two Ivy League economists, looked at data from 13 NBA seasons between 1991 and 2004. They broke down the racial makeup of…

USA Today put out a list the other day of the top 100 high school basketball players in the class of 2007. The first thing any ACC fan should notice with this list is the dearth of elite players headed to the ACC next year. Duke’s Kyle Singler is the only top ten guy and…

The guys (guy?) over at the Georgia Tech Sports Blog have an interesting post about the joy of watching Steve Nash play and remembering when he faced off against Stephon Marbury in college. The comments on that game 12 years ago are great. Tech fans were just trying to figure out how good their new…

David Glenn has a blog entry up today talking a bit about the ACC and the NFL Draft (What, you thought this post was going to be about Brandan Wright?). It’s a pretty vanilla entry by Glenn’s lofty standards, but there’s one very interesting part. He talks a bit about the programs that have had…