Nov
26
2019
Death finally beat Hank Bullough. He passed away Sunday night at age 85, but the Michigan State Hall-of-Famer robbed death of at least another five years while recovering from health scares. Bullough, a national champion as both a player under Biggie Munn (1952) and assistant coach under Duffy Daugherty (1965 and 1966), suffered a major …
Nov
01
2019
(Photo by Getty Images) Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. I’m going to step out of the ACC tonight and talk some Washington, DC (we call it the DMV) sports. So, I’ve been in the DMV area longer than any place I’ve lived in my life – and, while I’m not quite …
Oct
27
2019
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. Hope you had a great weekend. Earlier this year, I made the case the University of Louisville should hire Scott Satterfield for head football coach (I really thought Satterfield was the best hire in the nation). I made the case the the University of Louisville made …
Oct
14
2019
Good afternoon, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) fans. We step out of the ACC today – and provide a Football Championship Series Poll – one of the first of its kind at our site. Thanks to @NDSUJerk and @TerryPJohnson for providing me with their rankings. See below: 1. NDSU 2. SDSU 3. Kennesaw St. …
Oct
02
2019
The University of Virginia football teams bye week may have come at just the right time. The Cavaliers traveled to South Bend last weekend to take on the 10th ranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and were handed their first loss of the 2019 season. The Cavaliers committed five turnovers, four in the second half …
Sep
28
2019
Good evening. Here are a few words about the status of Virginia Tech football: Paul Myerberg of USA Today nails it: Since last October, the Hokies have lost to BC (twice!), to Notre Dame by 22, Georgia Tech by 21, Pitt by 30, Miami by 24 and now Duke by 35. This has basically …
Sep
22
2019
Happy Sunday, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college football fans. Back in June 2019, @CFBMemes_ was kind enough to take me up on a charity bet. Specifically, he gave me -3.5 on the number of wins for North Carolina in their first five football games. If North Carolina won four of their five games (e.g. …
Sep
07
2019
Good morning, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. As @TalkinACCSports previously reported, the ACC Network is the second best launch ever of a sports network. The ACC Network has carriage agreements with Cox Communications, DirecTV, Dish, Hulu, Playstation Vue, Sling, TMobile’s TVision, Verizon FIOS, and YouTubeTV. This is really significant for the first year of …
Aug
14
2019
Mo Fifita is a 6-foot-1, 320-pounder who gets down in the trenches and slugs it out, brawn on brawn. If that means tying up two 300-pound offensive linemen to free up linebackers, so be it. In other words, he was born to play nose tackle. And it doesn’t hurt he has Polynesian bloodlines. Ever since …
Aug
13
2019
DURHAM, N.C. – A dozen years ago David Cutcliffe took over a woeful Duke football program that was 2-33 the previous three seasons, including 0-12 in 2006. He needed fresh talent and he found some with three true freshmen. Jay Hollingsworth led the team in rushing, albeit with only 399 yards and one touchdown. Johnny …
Aug
11
2019
DURHAM, N.C. – Fans panic with their lungs or twitter thumbs. The media jumps to conclusions. But Duke coach David Cutcliffe learned long ago to wait for the film to evaluate a football team’s first scrimmage a mere eight days into fall camp. “I promise you nothing is as good as you think it is …
Aug
10
2019
Times don’t always change for the better. Fifty-three years ago, when Jim Crow still plagued the old South, the city of Fayetteville, N.C., demonstrated it was ahead of the times down the slow, painful march to the new South. The segregated city gave a parade and key to the city to Jimmy Raye, an African-American. …
Aug
10
2019
Good morning, Atlantic Coast Conference sports fans. Seems like Paul Finebaum, ESPN’s SEC mouthpiece, is talking more about Clemson and Dabo Swinney than he is about the SEC. This is happening on a frequent basis. To which I said: (2) I mean @TalkinACCSports this has gone far past a rent check for Paul Finebaum …
Aug
03
2019
Good morning, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. We’re less than a month before college football starts 😉 It’s summertime and I needed some college football related reading before actual college football starts. Towards that end, make sure you purchase @PickSixPreviews Power 5 college football preview. ? Book Graphics Detail (5 of 5) Want to …
Jul
15
2019
Arizona State coach Herm Edwards offered an observation about young athletes, breaking into his familiar belly laugh that fills a room. They view the 1960s as ancient history, he says. “It’s amazing. They think the ’60s was a long time ago. It wasn’t that long ago. I lived in that era! I grew up in …
Jun
19
2019
The NBA draft is Thursday night. Have you taken a look at those last mock drafts to see where your favorite player may end up? Mock Draft SI.Com Mock Draft CBSSports Mock Draft NBADraft.net Mock Draft USA Today Make you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page