Chris Graham: My All-ACC Teams

All-ACC First Team Mike Scott, Virginia Tyler Zeller, North Carolina Harrison Barnes, North Carolina John Henson, North Carolina Terrell Stoglin, Maryland   Second Team Erick Green, Virginia Tech Austin Rivers, Duke Michael Snaer, Florida State Lorenzo Brown, NC State C.j. Leslie, NC State   Third Team Durand Scott, Miami Bernard James, Florida State Seth Curry, [...]


Chris Graham: Ain’t never gonna happen

Teams not named Duke or North Carolina are never going to get a fair shake in ACC basketball. That’s not whining or lamenting; that’s describing reality. It’s OK. We get it. The Duke-Carolina binary system is the linchpin of the ACC’s marketing efforts. In spite of the best John Swofford and the other suits in [...]


Swofford: ACC happy ‘with the 12 that we have’

The college-sports landscape was thisclose to apocalypse – if only Texas wasn’t Texas, and had gone along with a move to the Pac-10 that had seemed to be in the works, instead of building itself a UT TV network and convincing the nine dwarfs left in what was the Big 12 to be its programming [...]


Swofford: ACC happy ‘with the 12 that we have’

The college-sports landscape was thisclose to apocalypse – if only Texas wasn’t Texas, and had gone along with a move to the Pac-10 that had seemed to be in the works, instead of building itself a UT TV network and convincing the nine dwarfs left in what was the Big 12 to be its programming [...]


(Another Predetermined) Carolina Victory

I’d forgotten how much I hate, no, make that loathe, the Atlantic Coast Conference until around 2 o’clock this afternoon – right around the time that Tyler Hansbrough wrapped up J.T. Thompson in a bear hug and somehow ended up getting a jump ball called that preserved North Carolina’s asterisked 79-76 win over Virginia Tech [...]