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Around ACC Nation
2008-01-27 14:51:00 That’s right, Around ACC Nation has returned from its extended holiday break. One last goodbye to the Orange Bowl. It’s fun to be a Blue Devil again. Clemson needs to work out some kinks. Good story by John Feinstein on former Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremins. More bad news for UVa. football - Jeffrey Fitzgerald may be gone. Wide receiver D.J. ... More About: Eagles , Tigers , Football , North Carolina , Hurricanes
College GameDay crew on Carolina
2008-01-27 04:56:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com Carolina fans may be sick of hearing about how terrible the Tar Heel defense is (yes, even ACC Nation was caught up in the frenzy with a story we posted last week). But the ESPN College GameDay crew wanted to have its say on Saturday morning. Host Rece Davis asked how much, if any, does Carolina ... More About: North Carolina , Men , Hoops
Friday Fish Fry
2008-01-25 23:17:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com If there is one thing that I know for certain about this small weekly contribution of mine is that it will never be short of material. This week is a superb example. Can you imagine having a job where all you do is soak up sports 24/7? I can see it now. Some of you sports ... More About: Fish , Friday
Weekend Skinny - weekend of Jan. 26-27
2008-01-25 05:47:00 Bad week for Patrick last week as he went 1-5. The Q at least kept his head above water at 3-3. For the season, Q is now in first with a 21-11 record, while Patrick slips to 20-12. Saturday games: N.C. State at Florida State (1:30 p.m. Raycom) Patrick’s pick: Was that Brandon Costner’s face I saw on a milk ... More About: Eagles , Tigers , Hurricanes , Boston College , Miami
Rathbun: ?It hurts all levels of basketball.?
2008-01-24 12:00:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com By Bob Rathbun’s count, there are 51 players in the NBA who could still be playing college ball if they had chosen to stay. By my count, six of them are former ACC players. Rathbun, the Voice of the Atlanta Hawks as well as a veteran ACC basketball announcer, was a guest on the ACC Nation ... More About: Eagles , Tigers , Basketball , North Carolina , Hurricanes
Seth Greenberg?s contract extension-does he deserve it?
2008-01-23 16:40:00 Column by Will Ojanen will@accnation.com On Tuesday, Seth Greenberg was given a three year extension at Virginia Tech through the 2012-13 season. In his four-plus seasons at Virginia Tech, Greenberg is 78-63, including an ACC Coach of the Year award in 2005, and a trip to the NCAA Tournament during the 2006-07 season, where the Hokies fell in the ... More About: World , Men , Hoops , Contract
The Tuesday Twelve
2008-01-23 02:37:00 Our weekly trip through the ACC blogosphere: 12. J.P. at ACC NOW has the list of ACC underclassmen that will be in the NFL Draft. 11. Barry Jacobs looks at coaches and birthdays for the DBR. 10. FSU It’s Time looks at AD candidates. More About: Eagles , Tigers , Football , North Carolina , Hurricanes
Carolina D in need of help
2008-01-22 15:00:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com Question of the week: Should Carolina push the panic button? In his words, Roy Williams doesn’t want his team to jump off a building. The North Carolina coach doesn’t want his team to take the loss to Maryland - a loss that knocked the Tar Heels from the ranks of the unbeaten and ...
ACC Nation podcast Jan. 21 - show notes
2008-01-22 03:35:00 Listen here Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Veteran ACC announcer Bob Rathbun, who is also the Voice of the Atlanta Hawks, joined Patrick and Q this week to talk about ACC basketball, college players jumping to the pros early, former ACC players on the Hawks and more. The guys also discuss the past weekend’s ACC games, including: - ... More About: Eagles , Tigers , Football , North Carolina , Hurricanes
Maryland?s Gist, Wake?s Johnson earn weekly honors
2008-01-21 22:30:00 Maryland ?s James Gist was named ACC Player of the Week and Wake Forest ?s James Johnson was selected as ACC Rookie of the Week. Gist played a key role in Saturday?s 82-80 win over No. 1 North Carolina in Chapel Hill . The Silver Spring, Md. , native turned in his fifth double-double of the ... More About: Men , Hoops , Maryland , Earn
ACC Power Poll - Jan. 21
2008-01-21 20:50:00 This was the most difficult week yet to rank the teams. Honestly, teams 4-12 could be ranked in almost any order. I could justify my final rankings to myself, which made me satisfied with the final order below. I’m sure you’ll disagree with some of the choices, so let me know what you think in the comments ... More About: Power , Eagles , Tigers , North Carolina , Hurricanes
ACC Nation talks GT hoops on the BuzzLine
2008-01-21 05:49:00 Jon Rawl, host of BuzzLine (the Yellow Jacket Fan Show), was kind enough to invite ACC Nation ’s Patrick Hite to join him and his co-host Jonathan Leifheit of GoJackets.com to talk about Georgia Tech basketball. After making things interesting against North Carolina last week, the Yellow Jackets finally picked up their first conference win Saturday against Virginia Tech. Patrick ... More About: Men , Hoops
VT?s Allen suspended by ACC
2008-01-20 23:39:00 Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford announced today that a two-game suspension has been issued to Virginia Tech freshman Jeff Allen for inappropriate contact with an official during Saturday?s game at Georgia Tech. Swofford issued Allen the suspension for deliberately making contact with game official Zelton Steed with 4:32 left to play in the Hokies 81-70 ... More About: Men , Hoops
Sail with the Pilot
2008-01-19 17:20:00 I was checking all our ACC Links to make sure they’re still active (something I should do more often, but am lucky to get to a couple of times a year). Anyway, I paid a visit to Dave Sez and discovered he had hung it up back in August (see, I really should check this ... More About: Tigers , North Carolina , Men , Hoops , Duke
Friday Fish Fry
2008-01-19 01:04:00 Column by The Evil Q accnationjim@comcast.net This was a busy week in the ACC and we have quite a number of stories we want to link you to in the Friday Fish Fry. On our agenda we find Women ’s Basketball, Baseball, Women’s Soccer, Wrestling, Swimming and Diving, Tennis, Track and Field, Hall of Fame inductees and a poke ... More About: Blogroll , Eagles , Tigers
Davis to return to Clemson
2008-01-18 23:19:00 Clemson running back James Davis , the school’s number-two career rusher and touchdown scorer, has decided to return to school. Davis had announced on January 9 that he intended to turn professional. But, on Friday, Davis faxed a letter to the NFL and Clemson University asking that his name be removed from consideration. “I James Davis of ... More About: Tigers , Football , Clemson , Return
Weekend Skinny - Games for Jan. 19-20
2008-01-18 15:23:00 The Evil Q gained a game on Patrick last week by going 5-1 (Patrick was 4-2), so heading into this weekend Patrick is now 19-7 while the Q is 18-8. Saturday, Jan 19 Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech (1 p.m., Raycom) Q’s pick: Quite frankly a tough call as the Yellow Jackets look better on paper, while the Hokies lead ... More About: Games , Eagles , Tigers , North Carolina , Hurricanes
Hokies take step forward
2008-01-18 05:55:00 Column by Patrick Hite accnationpatrick@comcast.net The next game has nothing to do with this game. Those were the words of Virginia Tech ’s Seth Greenberg following his team’s yo-yo, not-always-pretty, overtime win against Virginia Wednesday night. The next game for the Hokies is Georgia Tech. This game was Virginia. The previous game was Maryland. Three games and, so far, two wins ... More About: Men , Hoops , Sound and Fury
ACC midseason awards
2008-01-16 19:28:00 Column by Will Ojanen Special to ACCNation.com It seems like it was just last week that we were just starting to preview the college basketball season. And now, the non-conference portion of the schedule is over and teams are getting into the teeth of conference play. We?ve seen quite a bit of surprise and intrigue up to this ... More About: World , Eagles , Tigers , Awards , North Carolina
ACC basketball scores - Tuesday night
2008-01-16 12:58:00 Clemson 70, N.C. State 54 Boston College 76, Miami 66 Maryland 71, Wake Forest 64 More About: Eagles , Tigers , Basketball , Hurricanes
The Tuesday Twelve
2008-01-15 20:02:00 It’s time for our weekly trip around the ACC blogosphere. 12. Zach from the Old Gold and Blog wraps up Saturday’s Wake Forest debacle. 11. UVa. is looking for its shot, writes Chris at the Sports Dominion. 10. Could Duke’s Joe Alleva be headed to Miami? More About: Eagles , Tigers , North Carolina , Hurricanes , Boston College
ACC Nation podcast Jan. 14 - show notes
2008-01-15 03:25:00 Listen here Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes     It’s never too early to talk about the RPI and NCAA Tournament brackets. So, this week on the show, Jerry Palm of CollegeRPI.com joins the guys to give us the latest info on which ACC teams are in good shape and which have some work to do in the coming months as we get ready for March Madness. Also, Patrick and Q review the first weekend of conference action in ACC basketball.  Courtesy of David Glenn’s ACC Journal, hear what Jay Bilas had to say about N.C. State’s performance against Carolina on Saturday. And get Patrick’s take J.P. Giglio’s blog post concerning the UVa. at Duke game this past Sunday. The guys take a look at the ACC players who are leaving college early, including FSU’s Xavier Lee. And Patrick tells of his experience this past weekend while watching Macbeth at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, VA. A Clemson grad had the role of Lady Macbeth. That and more o... More About: Show , Podcast , Notes , Nation
Clemson?s Booker, VT?s Allen earn weekly ACC honors
2008-01-14 21:41:00 Clemson?s Trevor Booker was named ACC Player of the Week and Virginia Tech ?s Jeff Allen was selected as ACC Rookie of the Week. In earning the award for the first time this season, Booker averaged 30.5 points, 8.0 rebounds and 3.5 blocked shots as the Tigers finished the week 1-1. In Wednesday?s 82-72 loss to UNC ... More About: Men , Hoops , Clemson
Power Poll - Jan. 14
2008-01-14 05:50:00 This week’s ACC Nation rankings along with the records as of Sunday night and the results of last week’s (Monday through Sunday) games. 12. Georgia Tech (7-8, 0-2) - lost at Georgia 79-72, lost at Miami 78-68 11. Maryland (10-7, 0-2) - beat Holy Cross 73-48, lost at Virginia Tech 67-66 10. Wake Forest (11-4, 1-1) - beat ... More About: Power , Eagles , Tigers , North Carolina , Hurricanes
Saturday?s ACC scores
2008-01-13 14:09:00 North Carolina 93, N.C. State 62 Miami 78, Georgia Tech 68 Boston College 112, Wake Forest 73 Virginia Tech 67, Maryland 66 Clemson 97, Florida State 85 (2OT) More About: Eagles , Tigers , North Carolina , Hurricanes
Friday Fish Fry
2008-01-11 23:28:00 Column by The Evil Q accnationjim@comcast.net The beginning of a new year and we’ve got wrestling, swimming/diving, track, women’s tennis and of course men’s and women’s basketball to keep us busy. We’ll review multiple team, player and coach honors as well. And in the eyes of some why UNC, Duke, NC State and Maryland are the only teams in the ACC ... More About: Women , Swimming , Tigers , Money , Football
Weekend Skinny
2008-01-11 06:09:00 The Weekend Skinny is back. For the season, Patrick is 15-5 and The Evil Q is 13-7. ACC play begins this week, making things a little more difficult. Saturday’s games N.C. State at North Carolina (noon, ESPN) Patrick’s pick: A young and inexperienced State backcourt has done well since Farnold Degand’s season ended, but trouble is on the ... More About: Eagles , Tigers , Hurricanes , Boston College
Clemson?s Merling headed to NFL
2008-01-11 02:03:00 Clemson junior defensive end Phillip Merling has decided to enter the National Football League draft. The native of St. Matthews, S.C., led Clemson in tackles for loss with 17 and quarterback sacks with seven in 2007, helping the Tigers to a top 10 national ranking in scoring defense and total defense. Merling had 78 tackles this ... More About: Clemson
UVa.?s Zeglinski done for season
2008-01-10 20:17:00 Virginia freshman guard Sammy Zeglinski will undergo a second operation on his right ankle and miss the rest of the 2007-08 season. Zeglinski had arthroscopic surgery last month and the second operation is designed to further stabilize the ankle. He has not played in a game since the Cavaliers? game with Longwood on Dec. 7. It is ... More About: Men , Hoops , Season , Virginia
Clemson?s Davis turning pro; Kelly staying
More articles from this author:2008-01-10 01:30:00 Clemson running back James Davis , the school’s number-two career rusher and touchdown scorer, has decided to enter the NFL draft and forego his senior season. Davis made the announcement on Wednesday. “This was a tough decision,” said Davis, a native of Atlanta who started the last three years at running back for Tommy Bowden’s team. ... More About: Tigers , Football , Clemson , Kelly 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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