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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Random thoughts from the outsider
2008-05-14 16:37:00 Column by Will Ojanen will@accnation.com Shortly after the recent NFL Draft, ESPN’s Todd McShay posted a first round mock draft for 2009. I know it’s a year early, but it’s always interesting to gauge who the so called draft experts really like coming in to the next season. Some players of note include Georgia Tech DE Michael Johnson, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Cavs top Terps for women?s lax title
2008-04-27 23:53:00 Ashley McCulloch’s game-winning goal at 3:08 in overtime was all that UVa. needed, as the Cavaliers posted their second come-from-behind victory to upend No. 1 seed Maryland 10-9 and clinch the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Lacrosse Championship at Scott Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The league title marked the third in a row for Virginia and ...
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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. ...
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Van Pelt gets new role on ESPN Radio
2008-04-23 02:34:00 Column by Patrick Hit patrick@accnation.com (Photo credit: ESPN/Joe Faraoni) It’s the slow time of the year for ACC news, in between basketball and the start of the college baseball playoffs, so excuse me for covering media news, but this is ACC related, sort of. ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt, a University of Maryland graduate (see, ACC related), is the ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Duke vs. Virginia - Big guns blazin?
2008-04-12 17:05:00 Some head knockin’ lacrosse action is in store for fans headed to Virginia’s Klockner Stadium Saturday evening as the Blue Devils and Cavaliers face off in front of an anticipated 8,000 fans. The last regular season matchup of the season in the ACC pits #2 against #3 (USILA Poll). Duke is 11-1 and Virginia 10-1 in the ...
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ACC to NBA: My best guess
2008-04-08 14:00:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com It’s that time of year again when we can start guessing which ACC underclassmen will declare for the NBA Draft. Now that players can test the water and, as long as they don’t hire an agent, return to college if they don’t like what they hear about their chances in the draft, ...
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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 ...
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NCAA/WNIT - the ACC women
2008-03-25 16:05:00 The ACC Women continue to put their signature on college basketball with postseason action in the WNIT and NCAA. North Carolina State and Boston College, after lengthy layoffs due to first-round byes, nailed wins in second-round action Monday night in the WNIT. The Wolfpack rallied from a 14-point-halftime deficit to defeat the Gamecocks of South Carolina 72-69 and move on ...
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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, ...
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ACC Women?s Basketball-Hoop There It Is
2008-03-09 03:15:00 Hoops Tobacco Road Style - - - - Here it is-Carolina and Duke in the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament Championship. Third-Seeded Duke got up on Second-Seeded Maryland and took advantage of 19 turnovers to score 32 points while the Terps could only muster 5 points out of 10 Blue Devil turnovers. The final-Duke 74 Maryland 63. Rashanda McCants wasn’t going to allow ...
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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 ...
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Carolina?s Hatchell, Maryland?s Langhorne honored
2008-03-06 00:10:00 Pulling in 40 of the 49 votes cast, North Carolina’s Sylvia Hatchell was named Wednesday as the ACC women’s coach of the year. Meanwhile, Maryland’s Crystal Langhorne to 23 votes from members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association to earn player-of-the-year honors. Hatchell’s team had question marks with the departure of Ivory Latta and Camille ...
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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 ...
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ACC Lacrosse Weekend
2008-03-02 02:59:00 This weekend promised exciting lacrosse and certainly anyone who went to see four of the top college men’s teams in the country at the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore got their money’s worth. How often do you get a chance to see Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Syracuse and Princeton in one ...
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Friday Fish Fry
2008-02-29 23:30:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com The anticipation of ACC Basketball Tournament action has created some strong distraction from exciting action elsewhere in the conference. We’ll try to remedy that with a trip around the ACC in this week’s Friday Fish Fry. The ACC’s Swimming and Diving championships started last weekend with the women. It continues in Atlanta with the men this ...
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The Q Report (ACC Lacrosse)
2008-02-28 21:48:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com My god I love lacrosse! When the season begins I know that spring isn’t too far away and that just adds to the thrill of seeing what some consider to be a weird combination of football, soccer and hockey. This sport is far tougher than one might imagine. After all this is a blood ...
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Friday Fish Fry
2008-02-22 19:41:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com We’re at that point in ACC sports where the insanity of pre-tourney positioning by the women and men in basketball finds some competition from baseball, lacrosse, swimming/diving, golf, softball, tennis, track and field and wrestling to name a few. You’ll want to check out The Q Report (ACC Ice Hockey?) for details on ...
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The Q Report (ACC Ice Hockey?)
2008-02-22 03:35:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com Regular listeners to the ACCNation podcast have often heard Patrick and I fire our shots across-the- bow when it comes to ACC schools playing ice hockey. Wait a minute. The ACC and ice hockey? Readers of Friday Fish Fry are familiar with our coverage of Boston College men’s and women’s ice hockey. ...
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Maryland?s Vasquez, BC?s Rice, Wake?s Teague earn weekly honors
2008-02-19 04:41:00 Maryland?s Greivis Vasquez and Boston College?s Tyrese Rice were named Co-ACC Players of the Week while Wake Forest?s Jeff Teague garnered ACC Rookie of the Week honors. Vasquez averaged 22.5 points, 7.5 assists, 6.0 rebounds and was 18-for-31 (.581) from the floor in games against Duke and Florida State . The Caracas, Venezuela, junior had 25 ...
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ACC Basketball Scores
2008-02-18 15:04:00 A rundown of this weekend’s men’s basketball scores in the Atlantic Coast Conference. North Carolina 92 Virginia Tech 53 Clemson 71 North Carolina State 64 Maryland 82 Florida State 72 Wake Forest 86 Duke 73 UVA 79 Boston College 74 Miami 64 Georgia Tech 63
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The Q Report (Black Coaches in the ACC)
2008-02-15 17:10:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com Though the term glass ceiling has been applied more often to the rise of women within business it can also be appropriately used in regard to any group that has historically found the top echelon of any field allusive at best. Within the field of sports we’ve seen a slow but steady rise ...
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Friday Fish Fry
2008-02-15 08:53:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com If you haven’t taken a moment to listen to our weekly podcast then this would be a great time to start. This coming week you’ll hear from some listeners regarding their favorite ACC basketball player of all time. We’d like to hear from you as well. Either call us at 206-202-1706 or e-mail ...
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Terps? offense, Gist heating up
2008-02-13 05:43:00 Story by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com It’s probably no coincidence that Maryland has shot better than 50 percent in the last five games and has won four of those. The Terps will have a chance to avenge that one loss - at home against Duke - Wednesday night in Durham. Maryland is 10-2 since back-to-back-to-back home losses in December. In ...
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ACC Nation podcast Feb. 11 - show notes
2008-02-12 04:00:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes ACC Nation wraps up football’s national signing day with Tom Dienhart of The Sporting News. Also, college basketball analyst Dan Bonner talks ACC hoops with Patrick and Q. Also on the podcast this week: - Does Virginia’s Dave Leitao deserve a D from Jeff White of the Times Dispatch?; - Patrick ...
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ACC announces 2008 football schedule
2008-02-08 19:43:00 The 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference football schedule released today by Commissioner John D. Swofford is comprised of 96 games, including 48 conference match-ups, over a span of 14 weeks. The schedule is capped off with the Fourth Annual Dr Pepper Atlantic Coast Conference Football Championship Game, which this year will be played on Dec. 6 in ...
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Weekend Skinny - Feb. 9-10
2008-02-08 19:18:00 It’s not often that a .500 week is good, but for Patrick 3-3 felt like a victory after going 2-10 the two weeks before that. Q was actually above .500, going 4-2 on the week. For the season, Q is 26-18 while Patrick struggles along at 24-20. SATURDAY’S GAMES: Boston College at Duke, 1 p.m., CBS Q’s pick: ...
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Around ACC Nation
2008-02-07 14:23:00 Duke comfortable in Dean Dome, according to ESPN.com’s Heather Dinich The N&O’s Caulton Tudor writes that the loss of Lawson was a big factor in Carolina’s loss. But Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer thinks Duke is better than the Heels, with or without Lawson. Georgia Tech’s Taylor Bennett to transfer Recruiting news: ...
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Ranking the recruiting classes
2008-02-06 22:43:00 Column by Will Ojanen will@accnation.com 1. Miami If you go just on this recruiting class, you could say Miami football is back. Randy Shannon and his staff have done an outstanding job of keeping players in state, and especially keeping Miami area players in the city. Of 32 recruits, 13 of them come from Miami, and 22 come ...
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National signing day
2008-02-06 21:24:00 Just in case you want to get an update on signing day (just remember, Carolina and Duke play tonight, so I’m not sure why you are concerned with football, but some of you (Virginia and FSU fans who have given up on basketball come to mind) may want to check this out). TheACC.com has signing day ...
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Double-A Zone live blogging mock NCAA Tournament selections
2008-02-05 21:47:00 Friend of the Nation Josh Centor over at the NCAA’s blog Double-A Zone wanted to let everyone know that he will be offering a live blog Wednesday and Thursday from the mock selections for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. In his e-mail, Josh wrote: “I just wanted to make sure you were aware that I will be live blogging from mock ...
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The Tuesday Twelve
2008-02-05 20:20:00 Our weekly trip around the ACC blogosphere: 12. Don’t mention “the foul” to Marcus Ginyard. 11. Carolina beats Duke - in women’s hoops. 10. Danny Ford is God takes a look at national signing day. 9. Dickie V is back.
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Power Poll - Feb. 4
2008-02-04 14:00:00 Here are this week’s rankings. Still difficult, but at least Virginia makes it easy to at the bottom of the poll and Duke makes it easy at the top. Let us know what you think about the poll this week. 12. Virginia (1-6, 11-9) - lost at Maryland 85-75, lost at VT 72-65 (OT) 11. Florida State (2-6, 13-10) ...
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Around ACC Nation
2008-02-04 12:58:00 Ty Lawson’s status uncertain for Wednesday night as Carolina gets ready for Duke. No wiggle room for Georgia Tech. Duke’s Abby Waner trying to break out of slump as Devils play Heels. Check out ESPN.com for the latest in recruiting news as signing day approaches. And Friend of the Nation Heather Dinich has more on recruiting. ...
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Around ACC Nation
2008-02-02 16:18:00 Joe Lundari’s latest brackets include four ACC teams - one that might surprise you - and two ACC teams in the last eight out. Super sixth men - Duke’s Jon Scheyer and Carolina’s Danny Green. Poll reversal led by Virginia and Virginia Tech. Now or never for Cavaliers?
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Weekend Skinny - Feb. 2-3
2008-02-01 17:21:00 Two weeks in a row of 1-5 for Patrick, and this week he pulled The Evil Q in the gutter with him. So, Patrick stays a game back of the Q on the season - Q: 22-16 and Patrick: 21-17 (at this rate, they’ll hit 30 correct picks sometime around the third week of next season). Saturday’s games: Maryland at Georgia Tech ...
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Bubble Teams-what do they need to do to get in?
2008-01-31 14:15:00 Column by Will Ojanen will@accnation.com I’m among many who think the ACC is a little down this year, but the unpredictability makes the games all the more fun to watch. Despite that, the ACC still ranks first in terms of conference RPI. But as far as the NCAA tournament goes, I feel there are four teams that ...
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