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The Duke Basketball Report (missed you fellas while you were in server hell!) has two very nice articles up by some heavy hitters. First, Barry Jacobs takes an ACC-centric look at drafts past. As is his style, his article is chock full of charts and facts. Al Featherston weighs in with a much longer piece…
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Jean Claude Van de Velde. When you hear that name, only one thing comes to mind – his colossal collapse at the 1999 British Open. Van de Velde came to the last hole with a three shot lead. A double-bogey would have won him the tournament. Instead of playing safely, he hit the ball all…
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The Boston Globe has a very nice article on how many NBA players squander their fortunes. Fancy cars, bad investments, crooked agents, leaching families and friends, divorces, etc. They get it all. A little something to think about tomorrow night when you watch all of those young men walk across the stage to shake David…
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Three days – three Florida State football posts. Unfortunately, this one deals with neither delusions of grandeur nor tasers. Michael of Braves & Birds has a very interesting post which he largely cribbed from another site. The original poster broke down the records of 14 elite college football programs over the past 12 seasons. He…
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The news is now nearly a week old, but I don’t want to let it slip by without a comment. After the USA’s 3-0 spanking of Panama on the road last week, they have all but wrapped up a bid to the 2006 World Cup. The win, the USA’s second 3-0 victory in less than…
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Another day, another wacky Florida State football player story. God bless those Seminoles. This one even beats the taser story from yesterday. It seems that starting quarterback and son-of-assistant-coach Wyatt Sexton got a little bad “stuff” at Bonnaroo and went nuts in the streets of Tallahassee. He was found face down in the street, but…
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Is it just me, or is this year’s NBA pre-draft saga producing an unusually high number of relevant ACC stories? Usually a few guys declare and that’s it. We read about how they are doing and where they might be picked, but that’s it. Not this year. To help you poor folks who have no…
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Let’s play a little game. Take a look at the following list: 1. Miami 2. Florida State 3. Virginia Tech Now, you have to guess. Is that a prediction of the final standings of the ACC in football next year? Or is a list of schools most likely to have a player tasered by the…
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You may have noticed that I like to poke a little fun here and there. I have my sarcastic tendencies. I might make fun of a few fools from time to time, but this story right here contains no such humor. It’s a great little story about how good sports can be. Yeah, it’s a…
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I’m not the first person to notice that the quality of ESPN’s program has steadily declined in recent years. Their anchors have all become smarmy, half-price Kenny Mayne clones (the excellent Fred Hickman excepted) and they seem to be trying hard to become the new MTV. Eventually, I expect that like how MTV never shows…