|
Friday Fish Fry
2008-05-31 05:50:00 Column and Commentary by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com Contrary to popular belief, I haven’t been in my hammock enjoying a cool one the past few Fridays. Rather, I’ve been hard at work putting the finishing touches on our new facilities. As anyone who has moved can tell you, nothing ever goes exactly as you’d like it to, thus ...
By: ACC Nation
Can ACC football ever be a national factor again?
2008-05-27 12:30:00 Story by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com In the not-too-distant past, ACC football was Florida State and the eight dwarfs. In an effort to upgrade, the ACC added Miami and Virginia Tech four years ago. The only problem with the move is that it hasn’t helped yet. In the past decade, the ACC has one win in a BCS bowl ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast May 26 ? show notes
2008-05-26 22:40:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Mitchell Light of Athlon Sports gives us an early look at ACC football this week. Light, the magazine’s senior editor, likes Clemson, but he has concerns about some of the other top teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference. We also asked Light if the ACC would be a ...
By: ACC Nation
VT softball wins super regional
2008-05-26 04:44:00 From the Virginia Tech Web site: The Virginia Tech softball team’s magical postseason run continued with an emphatic sweep of sixth-ranked Michigan in the Super Regional round of the NCAA Tournament in Ann Arbor on Sunday. Tech had defeated the Wolverines 1-0 earlier in the day with a 15-strikeout performance by pitcher Angela Tincher, and, needing ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast May 19 ? show notes
2008-05-20 02:56:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Dan Bonner discusses the ACC baseball tournament with ACC Nation this week. We asked him if any of the other five teams in the tournament can knock off the big three — Miami, FSU and North Carolina. Also, does Dan like the current tournament format? And is ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation baseball power poll ? May 18
2008-05-18 06:51:00 The regular season is complete and the ACC Tournament begins Wednesday in Jacksonville. This is unofficial, since the ACC won’t release the seedings until Sunday afternoon, but it appears this is the way things will shape up: Division A will consist of No. 1 Miami, No. 4 NC State, No. 5 Georgia Tech and No. ...
By: ACC Nation
Bye-bye Boise (hello D.C.?)
2008-05-15 20:47:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com Most of the news coming out of the ACC’s spring meetings was expected — no 18-game schedule in basketball or 9-game schedule in football– but I thought the best news this week was that, after 2008, the ACC won’t be affiliated with the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho. Despite what John Swofford said ...
By: ACC Nation
Matt?s fantastic ACC voyage
2008-05-13 19:43:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com Matt Simon knew how to get our attention. He wrote nice things about me, the Evil Q and ACC Nation. That’s all it takes. His e-mail started this way: First off I just want to say that stumbling on your podcast this year was probably one of the best things I did. As ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast May 12 ? show notes
2008-05-13 02:52:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes John Feinstein stops by ACC Nation to discuss his latest book, “Living on the Black.” Feinstein spent the 2007 baseball season following the New York Yankees’ Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine, then of the New York Mets, and chronicled their experiences in his first baseball book in ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation baseball power poll ? May 12
2008-05-12 15:10:00 After studying the ACC baseball standings for three minutes (it shows below) Sunday afternoon, I believe seven six of the eight spots have been claimed in the ACC Tournament. (OK, thanks to Jimmy Smith (see comments below) I was figuring something wrong concerning teams with ties. Ties count as half a win. See corrections below in bold.) FSU and NC State ...
By: ACC Nation
Should ACC hoops split into divisions?
2008-05-07 05:25:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com Poll: What format would you like to see? The ACC’s athletics directors will discuss a possible 18-game schedule for men’s basketball at next week’s spring meetings. So far, I’ve seen just one benefit from an 18-game schedule - the ACC can line its pocket a little more. With the additional games, it’s hard to ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast May 5 ? show notes
2008-05-06 03:10:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Sylvia Crawley, the new women’s basketball coach at Boston College, chats with Patrick and Q about her new job. The former Tar Heel — she both played and coached at Carolina — inherits a young team at BC and things are looking up for the Eagles. She ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation baseball power poll - May 5
2008-05-05 05:37:00 Only a couple of conference series this past weekend — and FSU still has one game left with Clemson later today — and two teams has the week off. The rest of the teams has light schedules because of exams. We now have two weekends left in the regular season and the ACC Tournament field is ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast feed announcement
2008-05-04 22:14:00 We talked about doing this several months ago and, now that we’re past basketball season, ACC Nation has switched its podcast feed. We tried to do so without disrupting any current iTunes subscribers, but I don’t think we pulled it off. So, anyone who is already subscribed to the ACC Nation podcast feed will have to make ...
By: ACC Nation
Friday Fish Fry
2008-05-03 04:10:00 WEEKLY ACC WRAP-UP & COMMENTARY BY THE EVIL Q jim@accnation.com Time again to take a look at what is going on in ACC sports and make a few pointed observations along the way. We’ll wrap-up with our bits and pieces segment with some stories that you probably haven’t had a chance to see. This week we’ve included a ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast April 28 ? show notes
2008-04-29 03:24:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Patrick and Q had some trouble with guests this week, getting all the way to plan E before giving up. But don’t worry because the guys have it covered. Among the issues on this week’s show: – Three Carolina players declared for the NBA Draft and ACCNation.com wants to ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC baseball power poll ? April 28
2008-04-28 16:30:00 Virginia took the largest drop this week and, if I could have justified it, I would have dropped them farther. If it wasn’t for Clemson, UVa. would be the most disappointing team in the ACC this year. Sure, the Cavaliers have 32 wins overall and a winning record in the conference, but they haven’t won a ...
By: ACC Nation
Friday Fish Fry
2008-04-26 01:47:00 ACC WEEKLY WRAP-UP AND COMMENTARY BY THE EVIL Q jim@accnation.com I love warm weather. So it completely boggles my mind that I’m still sitting here while the weather is perfect. The severe side of this moment of whining is that I’m in an office that is meat-locker cold because of all the electronics in the immediate area. ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation baseball power poll - April 21
2008-04-21 17:02:00 Here is the power poll for this week. We had our first tie of the season, with Clemson and Duke getting rained out in the 11th inning Sunday with the scored tied at six. What’s wrong with Clemson? Weren’t the Tigers supposed to be good? Is it just that I haven’t paid attention much before this week, ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC outdoor track and field championships
2008-04-20 04:20:00 Florida State and Virginia Tech won the men’s and women’s ACC outdoor track and field championships…again. For FSU’s men it was the fourth year in a row and sixth time in seven years. The Hokies have clinched the women’s team title for both the indoor and outdoor competitions for the past two years. The Seminole men didn’t find ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC baseball weekend skinny
2008-04-18 14:27:00 ACC Nation has never tried picking baseball games before, but with basketball over and football still many, many months away, Patrick and Q thought they’d give hardball a try. See below for some brief information about the weekend series and the guy’s picks (they chose series winners and didn’t even try to pick scores). NC State ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC basketball season in review part one
2008-04-16 16:44:00 Column by Will Ojanen will@accnation.com The final chapter has officially been written on the college basketball season. It was an exciting season overall, and although no ACC team reached the summit of the NCAA Tournament mountain, it was very eventful, and while most people would consider this season to be a little down, the future will be ...
By: ACC Nation
More than a chant
2008-04-16 15:13:00 Some have passed. Some will never be the same. Some will have the nightmare slowly fade. It will always be a memory. Ryan McConnell, sports editor of the CollegiateTimes.com , explains how three words can say so much. Remember. Learn. Never Forget.
By: ACC Nation
2008 ACC-Big Ten Challenge schedule announced
2008-04-15 20:18:00 ACC press release: Matchups for the 10th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge — featuring top college basketball programs playing for conference supremacy and the Commissioner?s Cup on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU ? are set. For the fourth consecutive year, the event will feature 11 games and include two telecasts on ESPNU, ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to televise ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast April 14 - show notes
2008-04-15 02:28:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Baseball America’s Aaron Fitt joins the guys to discuss ACC baseball. Find out which ACC team Aaron thinks has the best shot at a College World Series title, what is wrong with Clemson and how the rest of the college baseball world views the ACC. Also, - The latest ...
By: ACC Nation
Friday Fish Fry
2008-04-12 02:57:00 The ACC Weekly Wrap & Comment with The Evil Q jim@accnation.com Boston College skates into the NCAA Ice Hockey Championship, Florida State, Miami and North Carolina begin pulling away in baseball, Carolina and Virginia Tech pull away in softball and a Maryland player picks up the Lieberman award. Also, a scary picture from track & field, football updates, ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast April 7 - show notes
2008-04-08 02:52:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Heather Dinich of ESPN.com discusses ACC spring football with the guys. She has the latest on North Carolina’s quarterback battle, Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher, Ralph Friedgen’s decision to give up play calling at Maryland and more. Also, - more on North Carolina’s loss to Kansas, including a comment from ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC baseball update
2008-03-27 15:38:00 Column by Will Ojanen will@accnation.com The ACC Baseball season is in full swing, and a lot of teams are off to very strong starts, in particular, most of the Coastal Division. Here’s a look at the standings. Atlantic Division Florida State 9-0 20-2 Wake Forest 4-4 11-10 Clemson 4-5 15-7 NC State 4-5 14-7 Maryland 2-7 12-11 Boston College 2-7 10-11 Coastal Division Miami 7-1 18-2 North ...
By: ACC Nation
Talking Hokies
2008-03-25 06:07:00 In Monday's Miami Herald, Barry Jackson informed us of this little Dolphins nugget in his latest article: The Dolphins are interested in several Virginia Tech players and sent at least three officials to their Pro Day on Thursday -- more than the norm. Defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers studied four big linemen -- Barry Booker, Chris Ellis, Carlton Powell and Kory Robertson. Receivers coach Karl Dorrell watched Eddie Royal, Justin Harper and Josh Morgan. There's also cornerback Brandon Flowers and linebacker Xavier Adibi (who, at 230, is smaller than the Dolphins' prototype at that position). So considering the Dolphins' interest in Virginia Tech prospects, I wanted to just highlight a few of these Hokies (ones not named Flowers or Adibi, as they're much more well-known). Chris Ellis Ellis, a DE, is a very interesting prospect, especially in the Dolphins' case. At 6'4, 263, he's a almost a "poor man's" Chris Long. He ran a 4.71 40 at the Combine, but improve...
By: The Phinsider
New York Yankees honor victims and play Hokies at Virginia Tech (AP)
2008-03-19 00:56:00 New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi knew Tuesday’s exhibition game at Virginia Tech would be unlike any other his team ever played. He and the Yankees could feel it when 200 people were waiting as the team bus made its first stop on campus at the memorial to 32 people slain last April, and in ...
By: MLB News Blog
Bursting bubbles with Bookie Mom
2008-03-18 01:55:00 Our friend Bookie Mom is bursting bubbles, including Virginia Tech’s, in her latest video. And, while she’s at it, she takes a shot at Seth Greenberg. Check out more from Bookie Mom.
By: ACC Nation
Yankees to play VT Hokies to benefit school, remember victims
2008-03-17 18:23:00 The New York Yankees will play Virginia Tech on Tuesday March 18 at English Field in Blacksburg, Virginia to benefit the school as it overcomes the shooting tragedy of last April when a gunman killed 32 people and wounded many more on the Blacksburg, Va., campus. The team plans to bring its entire starting lineup for its scheduled ...
By: Blog Zone
ACC Nation podcast - day two of the 2008 ACC Tournament
2008-03-15 05:49:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes ACC Nation talks with David Glenn of the ACC Sports Journal. David talks about how the tournament has changed with the addition of three teams in the past few years, what North Carolina has to do to be a No. 1 seed in the East and Virginia ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Tournament - Virginia Tech vs. Miami in-game blog
2008-03-14 19:07:00 We are live at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C., for the 2008 ACC Tournament. Join us for this in-game blog by putting your comments in this post. The blog is sponsored by Bojangles’. When you gotta wanna needa getta hava delicious, flavorful food?you gotta hava Bojangles?. We are getting ready for game two on Friday ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast - day one of the 2008 ACC Tournament
2008-03-14 06:23:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes ACC Nation’s Patrick Hite is in Charlotte for the 2008 ACC Tournament. Listen to this show following day one of the tourney, with wins by Florida State, Miami, Georgia Tech and Boston College. Hear from Leonard Hamilton, Frank Haith and Al Skinner and more from the games. Also, ...
By: ACC Nation
How safe are the bubble teams?
2008-03-13 02:55:00 By Will Ojanen will@accnation.com It’s almost impossible to predict who’s going to the NCAA Tournament from one day to the next. At the beginning of a week, we could say one team is in, and three days later, we could say they’re out. In the case of the ACC, one would assume that there are three locks into the big ...
By: ACC Nation
This year?s N.C. State?
2008-03-12 05:11:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com It’s become fashionable to look at what happened last year and assume it will happen again. Two years ago George Mason came from nowhere and went to the Final Four. Last year everyone wanted to know who would be 2007’s George Mason. I’m nothing if not fashionable, so with the ACC Tournament starting ...
By: ACC Nation
Wrestling and a bit of drama
2008-03-11 16:43:00 Maryland takes home the bacon Those who indulge in WWE action, are used to the built-in drama that comes with pro wrestling. On a college level you may be hard-pressed to come up with anything like the shenanigans afoot on the small screen. There was drama at the ACC Wrestling Tournament though as regular season champion Maryland, ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Nation podcast March 10 - show notes
2008-03-11 03:11:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Ken Tysiac of the Charlotte Observer joins us this week. As the lead ACC writer for the newspaper in the ACC Tournament host city, Ken is a busy man, so we were grateful he took out some time to talk with us. Ken discusses Carolina’s win over ...
By: ACC Nation
All-ACC teams announced
2008-03-10 22:37:00 (1st Team Vote ? 3 points; 2nd Team Vote ? 2 points; 3rd Team Vote ? 1 point) First Team (1st Team Votes) Points Tyler Hansbrough, Jr., North Carolina* (90) 270 Tyrese Rice, Jr., Boston College (82) 261 Sean Singletary, Sr., Virginia (80) 257 DeMarcus Nelson, Sr., Duke (74) 250 Jack McClinton, Jr., Miami (37) 208 *unanimous 1st team Second Team Points Greivis ...
By: ACC Nation
Power Poll - March 10
2008-03-10 15:00:00 12. Boston College (4-12, 13-16) - lost at Miami 74-61, lost to GT 86-78 11. N.C. State (4-12, 15-15) - lost at Wake 78-67 10. Georgia Tech (7-9, 14-16) - lost to UVa. 76-74, beat Clemson 80-75, won at BC 86-78 9. Wake Forest (7-9, 17-12) - lost at VT 80-58, beat NC State 78-67 8. Maryland (8-8, 18-13) ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Tournament pairings
2008-03-10 02:30:00 Purchase tickets to the 2008 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament from ACC Nation sponsor TicketCity.com The ACC Tournament pairings have been announced. Games begin Thursday, March 13 and run through Sunday, March 16 at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C. Don’t forget, ACC Nation will be at the tournament and will have in-game blogs for all ...
By: ACC Nation
Weekend Skinny - March 8-9
2008-03-07 20:18:00 This is the final Weekend Skinny for basketball’s regular season and the Q needs an impressive week to stay in range of Patrick as we head to the postseason. Patrick went 5-0 last week and is now 43-24 on the season. Q is 38-29 after a 3-2 week. Miami at Florida State, noon, Raycom Patrick’s pick: Miami’s done ...
By: ACC Nation
Friday Fish Fry
2008-03-07 19:24:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com Just about the same time every year my hair begins to stand on end and I get this prickly, electrical sensation up and down my spine. Part of me wants to believe its more than the warm weather and thunderstorms that come with the change of season. After all, I live on ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC Legends-The Women
2008-03-05 22:24:00 They are the foundation upon which ACC Women’s Basketball continues to build. The names for the uninitiated may not be familiar but their contributions are forever etched in stone. Names like Cubelic, Blue, Page, Burge and Connor to mention a few. Players and coaches who have made contributions that will be recognized during the ACC Women’s ...
By: ACC Nation
Random thoughts from an outsider
2008-03-05 14:00:00 By Will Ojanen will@accnation.com I watch a lot of college basketball. I’m one of those people who, if given the opportunity, will watch college basketball on a Saturday for 12 hours. I try to watch as much of the ACC as I can, but given my location, that doesn’t happen as much as I would like. But ...
By: ACC Nation
Wussconsin? Badgers back out of game with Hokies
2008-03-05 03:44:00 Ok, I know that division one teams like to get some conference tune up games versus what you would call cupcakes. That’s a given. It’s not like basketball where the trend has been for years that the nonconference schedule needs to be a little bit thicker for NCAA seeding, and well, competitiveness down the stretch. ...
Wussconsin? Badgers back out of game with Hokies
2008-03-05 03:44:00 Ok, I know that division one teams like to get some conference tune up games versus what you would call cupcakes. That’s a given. It’s not like basketball where the trend has been for years that the nonconference schedule needs to be a little bit thicker for NCAA seeding, and well, competitiveness down the stretch. But for football, it has long been where scores like 73-10 in the first few weeks aren’t really much of a surprise due to the huge imbalance of these games. But for Wisconsin, they had scheduled Virginia Tech–a surefire top 25 and potential BCS team–on their schedule, but when the official schedule came out–poof–the Hokies were gone, replaced by powerhouse Cal Poly. Ummm…yeah….ok&hel-lip;. (more…)
Thirteen lucky number for Noles? golf
2008-03-04 20:53:00 For Florida State their No. 13 ranking is proving very lucky. It all started in September when the Seminoles broke a dry spell in team championships going all the way back to 1998 by notching the Inverness Intercollegiate among a premium crowd of 16 teams. This time a four-shot lead over No. 9 Auburn was enough to ...
By: ACC Nation
ACC bubble watch - the home stretch edition
2008-03-04 19:57:00 Here’s our weekly look at the ACC teams with a chance for an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament (OK, we included Wake and FSU because if they sweep the rest of their games in the regular season and make a run in the… oh, who are we kidding? Neither team has a chance, but we’ll make ...
By: ACC Nation
|
|
 |
|
 |
