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This is just crazy. Kentucky basketball coach Tubby Smith is apparently leaving to become the coach at the University of Minnesota. Wow! Talking about shrinking from the light. I thought it was a bit of a stretch to think that he might take the Virginia job a couple of years ago (although by all accounts,…
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Earlier today I was thinking about one of the articles I want to write after the season is over. I was thinking about Duke’s team next year, with everyone returning and three McDonald’s All-Americans coming in. Josh McRoberts didn’t live up to preseason expectations, but if you ignore his high school accolades, he still has…
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.. or at least you can be in a few minutes. I’ve done so many of these shows in the past couple of weeks that I almost forgot to put out notice for this one. I’m back on Grant Thompson’s Sports Pulse show today at 2:30 (about 15 minutes from now!) Once again, the snazzy…
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I was just talking to a Tar Heel fan yesterday about Butch Davis and the impact that they hope he has on the UNC football program. Little did either of us know that Davis had been recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma after a tumor was removed from his mouth. Davis seems to be playing down…
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After filling out pool sheets, the second most popular NCAA Tournament pastime might be comparing conference performance. Everybody keeps track of who has how many teams left. Conferences are ranked by various arbitrary measures – number of bids, number of Sweet Sixteen teams, number of Final Four squads, total wins, winning percentage, etc. Each of…
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In my column reviewing the weekend NCAA Tournament games, I wrote a short piece about Tyler Hansbrough’s athleticism and included a final line wondering if he would be viewed differently if he were black. Obviously, that’s the sort of topic that’s not best handled by a single throwaway line, but I didn’t have time to…
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The ACC’s reputation wasn’t built in a year, five years or even a decade. The ACC has been the most dominant conference by far over a long period of time. One bad year (and this hasn’t been that bad yet) doesn’t change that. So, I give you David Glenn’s piece from last week detailing just…
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If you missed me last week, you have another shot tonight. I’ll be on CampusFans.com tonight at 6pm Eastern. We’ll be talking about the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament and probably about how the ACC flopped. By the way, I talked to Michael Riccio, who hosted my show last week and will again tonight,…
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Not a good start to the NCAA Tournament for the ACC, huh? Unfortunately, I’m not terribly surprised. I mentioned briefly on this site and again on one or two of my radio interviews that the ACC was poised for a tough first two rounds of the tourney. Only Carolina would be a heavy favorite to…