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The first week or so of the college hoops season has come and gone. As always, there were a few surprises. Instead of addressing each separately, I’ll just mush ’em all together in here. NC State is better than expected Of the six ranked ACC teams, NC State is the lowest. They were picked by…
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Yoni found a story about something I’d never really heard of. It’s pretty surprising that this is such a secret, because evidently every D1 school has a similar program. Apparently, athletic departments have deals set up with car dealerships to provide coaches and their wives with new, free cars. In return, the dealers get season…
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In a stunning act of accountability and good sportsmanship, Clemson and South Carolina have each agreed not to accept any bowl bids this year after their brawl on Saturday. What a great step by the Presidents and ADs of each school. The fight, particularly coming less than 24 hours after the big NBA donnybrook, was…
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Ken Pomeroy says that the numbers show him that it’s more important to get to the line to line to shoot free throws than to make free throws. In other words, the percentage a team makes, while important, is less critical than just creating the opportunities. Makes some sense, actually. He also points out that…
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I often avoid writing about the “big” topics of the day, because you’re gonna read all about it, facts and opinions, everywhere else. I can’t compete with espn.com, so I don’t try. In this case, I’m going to make an exception. I saw the Friday Night Fight not too long after it happened, and have…
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This is great. You may recall the hubub in the Show Me State when huge donors Bill and Nancy Laurie pitched in $25 million for the Mizzou basketball arena. The controversy wasn’t over the donation so much, but because the Lauries, Wal-Mart billionaires, decided to name the arena after their daughter! Yes, the new arena…
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Like the Sports Guy and the NBA, Chris Chase writes his best stuff on college basketball. Both guys write about baseball and the NFL and do so pretty well, but hoops brings out their best. Or maybe I’m just biased. Either way, Chris has a very nice little preview of both the national rankings and…
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Mike Boone at Fanblogs.com wrote up a nice synopsis of the various possibilities for who will get the BCS bid out of the ACC. In my opinion, and you know I’m never wrong, Florida State and Miami are locks for tying for the lead. The winner of the Virginia – Virginia Tech will share the…
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There’s a phenomenon in semiconductors known as avalanche breakdown. Normally, a p-n junction (also known as a diode) allows current to flow in only one direction. If you apply a negative voltage to the junction, it doesn’t allow any current to flow backwards. To a point. Eventually, if you keep increasing the voltage, the junction…
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I have a friend who is a UNC-Wilmington alumnus. We used to love to joke about UNC-W’s programs for the basketball season. They haven’t had a very stellar history, so the program included articles on near wins against such powers as Indiana and UMass. Fortunately for the Seahawks, they actually built up a little real…