http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php ACC sports and more en-us daveirwin1@yahoo.com 2007-03-12T16:48:40-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001279 I had completely forgot about this, but back in 1996 tiny Western Carolina, a 16 seed, nearly knocked off 1-seed Purdue. They had a three at the end to win. It bounced off the back of rim. They got the... 1279@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2007-03-12T16:48:40-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001253 Growing up as an ACC fan outside of North Carolina, I quickly learned to resent the Big Four schools. I mostly hated UNC, of course, but I was also really annoyed at how the conference really only seemed to exist... 1253@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2007-02-21T10:59:18-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001217 The Boston Globe ran a great, disturbing article the other day about the relationship between Pop Warner youth football leagues and Disney. Each year, Pop Warner hosts age-group national championships at Disney's facility in Orlando and charges the teams ridiculous... 1217@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2007-01-09T16:10:44-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001196 According to the News and Observer, Chuck Amato has been fired at NC State. The news is evidently not official, but N&O cites several unnamed sources. While I used the verb "fired," the N&O doesn't quite put it that way,... 1196@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-11-26T21:22:09-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001191 Looking for a little something special for your little something special this holiday season? Well, how about some music from basketball star and Christian crooner Jerry Stackhouse (scroll down a bit)? Word on the street is that following the huge... 1191@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-11-17T22:54:09-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001178 This is a terrible story. Miami defensive tackle Bryan Pata was shot and killed shortly after practice today. That's awful for Pata's family, friends and teammates and the program in general. It's been a tough, tough year in Coral Gables,... 1178@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-11-07T23:21:16-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001150 You've probably seen the story by now, former Duke basketball players Brian Davis and Christian Laettner are teaming up (again) to buy the Memphis Grizzlies. Davis and Laettner are putting up $40 million of a $252 million purchase of 70%... 1150@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-10-04T18:46:40-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001145 1145@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-09-21T14:08:23-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001139 1139@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-08-31T14:01:17-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001138 1138@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-08-30T16:16:36-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001136 1136@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-08-28T17:13:52-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001134 Eagle in Atlanta has yet another impressive interview with a "real" sports personality, Andy Katz. If he keeps this up, he's going to give us seat-of-the-pants, non-professional types a bad name. Earlier, he landed Bob Ryan - Part I, Part... 1134@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-08-21T12:22:14-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001133 Ned Barnett of the News & Observer wrote a nice piece this weekend about how the local track empire of Trevor Graham is in ruins. You could take Barnett's article and take it a step or two further - the... 1133@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-08-21T11:07:15-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001130 I have to try harder not to fall behind on my David Glenn reading. Glenn has a nice post about North Carolina's "Big Four" ACC teams and how (and why) they are struggling right now in football. The most interesting... 1130@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-08-10T13:34:22-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001129 I was sealing the grout in my kitchen floor last night and decided I needed some background noise to break the tedium. I flipped on the TV and there was the US basketball team, playing an exhibition game against Puerto... 1129@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-08-04T10:41:22-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001128 The friendship that developed between Jim Valvano and Mike Krzyzewski after Valvano retired from NC State is well chronicled. Coach K and his wife are still quite active in the various V Foundation activities in the area. The boys at... 1128@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-08-02T11:23:04-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001127 You probably remember the mgoblog, it's the site that put together the BlogPoll for college football (yes, I'm a voter). Brian, mgoblog's creator has evidently forked over $10K of his own money and went out to Vegas to play in... 1127@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-31T16:54:16-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001126 Could Floyd Landis become bike racing's Ben Johnson? Top of the world one day and the sport's signature goat the next? I certainly hope not, but reports are that Landis has failed blood tests. The tests showed unusually high testosterone... 1126@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-27T11:24:52-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001125 Earlier today, I linked to Ed Zipper's divorce notice for ESPN. The one problem with the idea of leaving the country's foremost supplier of sports information and artificial cool is that you need to find a replacement. Fortunately in today's... 1125@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-27T00:08:34-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001124 Ed Zipper of the Sports Frog wrote what I'm sure many of you have thought for a long time - it's time to move on from ESPN. Ed wants a divorce and I do too. Hell, we barely ever spend... 1124@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-26T10:22:55-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001123 If you thought that maybe Willie Williams' departure from Miami meant that maybe they'd lose a bit of their thug edge, wonder no more. Check this story out - Hurricane safety Willie Cooper (Dub-C of 7th-Floor Crew fame) was shot... 1123@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-21T21:53:56-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001121 FanBlogs has a link to a SportingNews.com article ranking the ACC football stadiums. As always, this sort of article is less about the actual picks than the discussion it generates. That said, I thik Matt Hayes did a pretty good... 1121@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-17T17:40:34-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001120 I remember Brien Taylor. He was quite possibly the most hyped baseball prospect ever - a can't miss kid with a million-dollar arm headed to the Yankees. I remember being somewhat disgusted by the demands of his family. They weren't... 1120@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-17T17:14:58-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001119 The Duke Basketball Report is 10 years old today. That's pretty impressive for any website, much less one that's pretty much run by the seat of the pants. In Internet time, 10 years old qualifies you for Social Security and... 1119@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-17T15:06:57-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001118 (Still catching up on old stuff ...) I've done my share of Chuck Amato bashing on this site. It's not that I hate the guy or think he's a complete idiot, I just find him funny. Also, I can't resist... 1118@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-14T14:52:32-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001117 I haven't written anything about Zinedine Zidane's fabulous final flame-out (other than this), because I just couldn't find the right words. Imagine my surprise when I found out (thanks to the ACCBasketblog) that football's own Dr. Z (maybe the best... 1117@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-11T17:12:09-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001116 Now I'm excited! I've had my 2005 ACC Helmet Schedule hanging on my wall all year - god bless the color printers at work (shhhh!) - and lately it's been making me pine for the fall. Once again, Joe Ovies... 1116@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-11T13:55:31-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001115 (Catching up on some old stories ...) In 1993, Bobby Cremins, the charismatic coach of Georgia Tech shocked the sports world when he announced that he was leaving to take the head coaching job at South Carolina, his alma mater.... 1115@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-07-10T17:54:38-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001113 TechSideLine.com has an interesting article up today reviewing ACC bowl performance over the past 13 years. Why 13 years? Because that's exactly the length of the current Virginia Tech bowl streak. So, it's a bit of a self-serving sample, but... 1113@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-30T10:59:19-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001112 I wrote an article the other day about the twenty-year anniversary of the death of Len Bias. In that piece, I tried - probably unsuccessfully - to describe just how good he was in college. Well, thanks to Bill Simmons'... 1112@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-26T16:31:39-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001111 StateFans Nation found a nice article at rivals.com about former Wolfpack star Rodney Monroe. Monroe, of course with Chris Corchiani, made up Fire & Ice, the potent NC State backcourt of the late Valvano years. It's always fun to catch... 1111@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-26T11:07:36-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001109 Hey, did you hear who won the award for the best basketball player under six feet? Len Bias. That's the joke that the speaker at my high school overheard while she was in the bathroom before her speech. It was... 1109@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-19T18:09:19-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001106 I was debating whether or not to post about J.J. Redick's arrest for DWI the other night. I mean, it's a newsworthy story, but then it's not really that big of a deal. Mostly, I considered posting it just for... 1106@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-14T10:03:59-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001105 Surely you know by now. Despite years of building and anticipation, the United States showed up on the pitch yesterday against the Czech Republic and promptly took a dump at midfield. It was ugly. Actually, before I go into what... 1105@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-13T12:07:25-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001104 I don't have time for an in-depth post this morning, so I'll just go with this - USA! USA! USA!... 1104@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-12T10:00:44-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001103 For a majority of the world, this is one of the biggest sporting days of the past four years - the opening day of the 2006 World Cup. I'm pumped! There are two games today, host Germany takes on Costa... 1103@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-09T09:33:48-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001102 The NCAA is finally starting to do something about the nasty trend of artificial high schools for basketball players, by disallowing credits from 15 "schools." Of course, being the NCAA, they pretty much whiffed on the actual diploma mills (none... 1102@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-08T11:47:06-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001101 I love Terry Holland and I have a soft spot for Ricky Stokes too, but this just isn't right. Ricky Stokes, once the spunky point guard who helped take Virginia to the 1984 Final Four, is now the coach at... 1101@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-08T10:36:06-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001099 With the World Cup coming up and given that most Americans don't really know the game's history that well, I figured I'd do my part to help out. AskMen.com has a nice article running down their picks for the 20... 1099@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-07T11:53:04-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001098 David Glenn did a little reading and put together a couple of table showing how each of the major men's ACC programs fared in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rates (APR) report. As Glenn reports, these numbers came out in February,... 1098@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-06T16:41:33-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001097 I don't do a lot of breaking story-type articles here - I mean it is a blog - but this one is too good to ignore. 16-year-old Michelle Wie is playing in a US Open - the men's US Open... 1097@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-05T17:37:28-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001095 Florida State crime stories - they never grow tired, do they? And this one may be the best yet. According to Tallahassee police, two former Noles - guys who played this year - linebacker A.J. Nicholson and receiver Fred Rouse... 1095@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-06-01T09:48:32-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001094 One of the difficulties with NC State's hiring of Sidney Lowe is that he can't yet make calls to recruits. But that doesn't mean he can't still make an impact. Check these quotes from the coach (Bob Oliva) of Larry... 1094@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-05-31T14:24:57-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001093 There is an old curse, "May you live in interesting times." The meaning is that where events are deemed "interesting" by outsiders, it is usually very difficult for the participants. I think we can safely say that the Maryland basketball... 1093@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-05-30T16:46:06-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001092 And so it ends, not with a bang, but with a scritch-scratch on a contract. Cedric Simmons' once-promising college career is over - he signed with an agent. Considering how weak this draft is, I can't really blame Simmons. I... 1092@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-05-30T14:36:31-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001090 TechSideline.com has an interesting piece up on members of the College Football Hall of Fame from ACC schools. It's not really accurate to call most of these players ACC players, because a lot (most) of them played before there was... 1090@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-05-26T15:51:21-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001089 Set your TiVo. You can still do your yard work tomorrow or take your kids to the beach, you don't want to miss the men's lacrosse final four. Trust me. ESPN 2 will have both games on Saturday - Maryland... 1089@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-05-26T11:04:51-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001088 This should be the final post on the curious NC State coaching search. David Glenn, the top ACC reporter going right now - and it's not close - put up two articles of miscellaneous notes about the search on his... 1088@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-05-25T17:28:27-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001087 The American Football Coaches Association released their annual report and awards for academic achievement and once again, the ACC fared better than any other conference. SMU was awarded the top award this year, but nine ACC schools were honored, more... 1087@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-05-25T09:45:22-05:00 http://www.davesez.com/quicklinks.php#001086 Someone get Al Groh on the horn! There's yet another stud in the Tidewater area of Virginia, and I don't think Groh should let the Tar Heels steal this one. According to his own website, the infamous televangelist Pat Robertson... 1086@http://www.davesez.com/ Quick Links 2006-05-23T17:28:05-05:00