I’m a little stunned here. The joke possibilties are overwhelming (would you say I have a plethora?). Mustapha Farrakhan, the grandson of calypso singer and National of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, has signed to play basketball at Virginia. I guess it makes sense. Jesse Jackson’s son played linebacker for George Welsh in the early 90s.…

Just a couple of days after the unthinkable, being shut out by Wake Forest at home, Jeff Bowden has done the only sensible thing. He’s quitting. Godfather Bobby Bowden could stick up for his inept son for only so long. I’m sure the folks in Tallahassee are dancing in the streets right now. Sources say…

The charade is over. The worst kept secret in college football is no longer. Butch Davis will be North Carolina’s next football coach. I understand as part of his compensation package, he doesn’t have to watch the Tar Heels’ final two games. That might have been a dealbreaker.

You hear the expression “in your wildest dreams, you never could have imagined it” a lot and it’s rarely true. I mean, like Han Solo, I can imagine a lot. Well, last Saturday’s 30-0 Wake Forest win over Florida State in Tallahassee absolutely qualifies. Seriously, even your most die-hard, longtime Deacon backers couldn’t have dreamed…

I’m a day late with this, but it’s never too late to announce the official start of the college basketball season. Maryland kicked off the ACC year with a nice win over Hampton Tuesday night and followed that with another solid win over Vermont last night. Now, I know neither Hampton nor Vermont is a…

Since I posted on the Butch Davis rumors yesterday, it’s only fair that I give an update. The update is … well, nothing. Everyone who knows is doing a great job saying nothing. Take that for what it’s worth. 850 The Blog has a nice rundown of the latest stuff, including a great pic. I…

If the posters at Inside Carolina are to believed (and well, they aren’t), Butch Davis’ hiring is imminent. It looks like AOL agrees. As 850 The Blog reported yesterday, nothing is official yet, but there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of Davis-colored smoke over Chapel Hill. If the Heels do land…

This is nuts. Apparently, the soccer team at Forestview High in Gastonia, NC played a speech from Hitler over the loudspeakers while warming up for a playoff game against Charlotte Catholic. Talk about your bad decisions. The head coach claims he didn’t know about it, which of course makes perfect sense, because head coaches always…

Do you hear the sneaker squeaks? The bouncing balls? Basketball is here! The first ACC game is tomorrow night when Hampton visits Maryland. Most other teams get started this weekend. I can’t believe we’re here already! The Duke Basketball Report has a quick look at the early games along with a few good links. I…

I apologize in advance for this post. It’s not really a sports one. Feel free to move along unless you care about things like blogging. Just this morning, I realized that Google’s blog search is mighty damn cool. I’ve always used Technorati and BlogPulse to keep an eye on who’s been linking to my articles,…