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If you’ve never been to the SportsProf’s site (it’s a blog, really), you should make it a regular stop. He’s a good writer and covers interesting topics. In this one, he talks a bit about how complicated Bobby Knight is. Coach Knight’s a classic Greek hero, extremely capable, but critically flawed. SportsProf covers the recent…
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The Winston-Salem Journal has a nice breakdown of the incoming classes at each ACC football school. I’m linking to Wake Forest’s haul, but you can get to every school from this link. No surprise, FSU and Miami had the best classes and Wake and Duke had the weakest.
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In the wake of yesterday’s basketball disaster, Bill Simmons puts together his own Olympic basketball team. No shocker – it looks better than what we have. My one problem with it is he has Iverson as a backup to Dwyane Wade. That would never work. Never. Iverson wouldn’t just be a cancer sitting behind a…
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He’s not gone yet of course, but with Alzheimer’s, Eddie Robinson is only a dim reflection of the man he once was. But then, we are all dim in comparison to the man he was. Jerry Izenberg, an old friend, tells us a bit more about the man. Don’t skip this one.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.…
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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…