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Surely you know by now. Despite years of building and anticipation, the United States showed up on the pitch yesterday against the Czech Republic and promptly took a dump at midfield. It was ugly. Actually, before I go into what went wrong, and there was plenty, I should point out the good stuff. The US…
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I don’t have time for an in-depth post this morning, so I’ll just go with this – USA! USA! USA!
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For a majority of the world, this is one of the biggest sporting days of the past four years – the opening day of the 2006 World Cup. I’m pumped! There are two games today, host Germany takes on Costa Rica at noon and Poland faces Ecuador at 3 (EST). Having the host team open…
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The NCAA is finally starting to do something about the nasty trend of artificial high schools for basketball players, by disallowing credits from 15 “schools.” Of course, being the NCAA, they pretty much whiffed on the actual diploma mills (none of the 15 schools still have teams and some never did), but it looks like…
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I love Terry Holland and I have a soft spot for Ricky Stokes too, but this just isn’t right. Ricky Stokes, once the spunky point guard who helped take Virginia to the 1984 Final Four, is now the coach at ECU. Stokes had a rough first year, going 8-20 and has responded by revoking the…
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You want to win an NBA title? You better get yourself some ACC players, pronto! Draft them, trade for them, sign them – just get them. Why? I’ll tell you why – since 1990, there have been 16 NBA Finals. In twelve of those years, one team had more players from the ACC than the…
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With the World Cup coming up and given that most Americans don’t really know the game’s history that well, I figured I’d do my part to help out. AskMen.com has a nice article running down their picks for the 20 best soccer players of all time. Give it a read. It’s a nice primer on…
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David Glenn did a little reading and put together a couple of table showing how each of the major men’s ACC programs fared in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rates (APR) report. As Glenn reports, these numbers came out in February, but no one seemed to write much about them. I remember looking for the full…
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I don’t do a lot of breaking story-type articles here – I mean it is a blog – but this one is too good to ignore. 16-year-old Michelle Wie is playing in a US Open – the men’s US Open – qualifier today and after 28 holes, she is apparently only one shot out of…
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My main focus on this site is discussion of ACC sports, mostly basketball in football – in that order. While I love those sports, and many others, there is no doubt in my mind what the greatest sporting event in the world is – soccer’s World Cup. The NCAA basketball tournament is great, nearly perfect,…