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the non-football weekend
It's Thanksgiving week! And that means it's time to carve a turkey if you catch my drift. But first, the other sports are starting to get exciting too. Today we'll just be talking about soccer and basketball. After that, I'm going to try and cram a whole week's worth of blogging into about two ...
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Blogpoll ballot Week 12
Check it. Rank Team 1 Texas 2 Alabama 3 Florida 4 Georgia Tech 5 TCU 6 Cincinnati 7 Boise State 8 Oregon 9 Ohio State 10 Pittsburgh 11 Iowa 12 Penn State 13 Houston 14 Oklahoma State 15 Virginia Tech 16 Miami (Florida) 17 Clemson 18  ...
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new video finally up
My second season in the fourth circle of football hell is mercifully approaching its unwatchable end. By this time next week, it'll all be ended and I'll more than likely be trying to forget there even is such a thing as football.** To that end I've finished up the Maryland highlights, now ...
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game preview: Clemson
game preview: Clemson
fromoldvirginia.blogspot.com — Date/Time : November 21, 3:30 PM TV : ABC/ESPN (!) Last matchup : Clemson 13, UVA 3 Last week : BC 14, UVA 10; Clemson 43, NCSU 23 History against the Tigers : 8-36-1 Line : Clemson by 21 Opposing blogs : Block-C , Shakin' the Southland Do ... (more) game preview: Clemson
Q&A with Block-C
fromoldvirginia.blogspot.com — So as previously mentioned, a Q&A session has been conducted with Block-C , the preeminent Clemson blogeteers in the business. My answers to their questions will be linked whenever they're up over there - should be sometime later today. That is ... (more) Q&A with Block-C
the replacements: Jim Grobe
Wednesday again, and that means another look at a potential next head coach. But first, a few articles about the current one. The ACC Sports Journal weighs in, as does Jay Jenkins of the CDP and Doughty in Roanoke . Two games left means it's time for the media to start writing the postmortems. ...
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ACC roundtable
fromoldvirginia.blogspot.com — This time around, Block-C is hosting; you may recognize them as this week's trading partner of questions related to Saturday's game (although such recognition may be difficult as that hasn't happened yet.) Also, bulletized thoughts on last night's USF ... (more) ACC roundtable
weekend review: of hoops and soccer
So, while we wait for the NCAA to get back to us with the soccer bracket, a little celebration is in order for our ACC champion soccer team. I wish they would have ever put any of these games on TV. Seems like the sort of thing that ESPNU was invented for, but what do I know? I guess more people ...
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it's hard to get angry at a bad team
Toward the end there, I was really starting to want that game. Obviously, you want the win; as a bonus, it would have knocked Boston College mathematically out of the ACCCG, which, sorry BC fans, but a third straight BC trip to that game would be awful for the conference. So there was a nice ...
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Blogpoll ballot Week 11
Here you go. Comments welcome as always. My own after the ballot. Rank Team Delta 1 Texas 2 Alabama 3 Florida 4 Georgia Tech 5 TCU 6 Cincinnati 7 Boise State 8 Oregon 1 9 Ohio State 3 10 Pittsburgh 3 11 LSU 12 Iowa 2 13 Wisconsin 4 14 Penn ...
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game preview: Boston College
Date/Time : November 14, 3:30 TV : ESPN360 (it's the new ESPNUVA) Last matchup : BC 28, UVA 17 (2005) Last week : Miami 52, UVA 17; BC bye History vs. the Eagles : 0-3 Line : BC by 4 Opposing blogs : BC Interruption , Eagle in Atlanta I hope you enjoyed last year's game against Wake ...
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the replacements: Kevin Sumlin
Was going to get to this one last week, but a surprise verbal commitment got in the way. Don't you hate when that happens? No? Kevin Sumlin Main qualification: Doing great things at Houston. Resume: 1988-1990: Washington State (grad asst.) 1991-1992: Wyoming (WR) 1993-1997: Minnesota (WR ...
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hoops preview part deux
Yesterday, obviously, was part one . If you missed it, we're going player by player and trying to figure out what to expect from them. We'll do that, and then a rough sketch of what I expect from this season. And we left off with: #15 - Sylven Landesberg Best-case scenario : Develops jump ...
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guess what? it's hoops season!
And that is a blessing and a half. Our season doesn't actually open up til Friday, but in symbolic celebration, I'm once again eschewing the usual weekend review, which is typically very football-heavy, in favor of a leetle something I've been tossing around in my head for a while. (Though I did ...
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how bad are we? this bad
So, in the middle of watching our putrid offense fumblefuck its way to another big loss, I had two minor epiphanies. I watched a ton of Jeopardy growing up and still enjoy it, so they came to me in the form of questions. The second I'll get to in a bit. The first was this: - When's the last ...
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Blogpoll ballot Week 10
A little later than normal, but here we go: Rank Team Delta 1 Texas 2 Alabama 1 3 Florida 1 4 Georgia Tech 3 5 TCU 4 6 Cincinnati 1 7 Boise State 1 8 Houston 4 9 Oregon 5 10 Southern Cal 4 11 LSU 1 12 Ohio State 6 13 Pittsburgh  ...
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game preview: Miami
Date/Time : November 7; 12:00 TV : Raycom Last matchup : Miami 24, UVA 17 (2008) Last week : never you mind what happened last week Line : Miami by 14 Opposing blogs : Anton Azucar , The 7th Floor It's still very weird that Miami is an every-year opponent these days. But it means we get ...
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the recruit: Khalek Shepherd
Was going to profile Kevin Sumlin as a coaching candidate this week, but Sumlin is a guy who might come to UVA, and as of yesterday, Khalek Shepherd is a guy who will. So, priorities. Name: Khalek Shepherd Position: RB Hometown: Brandywine, MD School: Gwynn Park Height: 5'8" Weight: 170 ESPN: ...
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ACC roundtable
It's that time again. This edition is brought to you by From the Rumble Seat . Let's go ahead and get straight to it. 1. Alright fellas, this is your turn to apologize to the Boston College Eagles who went to Hell and back and have now arrived as the 3rd team for the ACC (and only team in the ...
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