A scary headline surfaced Wednesday, which would have put a serious damper on kickoff of the college football season. Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones was rushed to the hospital with “head pain.” You read head pain in football, and your mind likely goes to a very unpleasant place. Not that Cardale Jones’ actual prognosis was […]
College wasn’t a particularly enjoyable financial experience for a lot of students. For many, the most dreadful part of the week was hearing all the fun stuff your friends were about to invite you to do because you were going to have to tell them you couldn’t afford to go. So when I heard about […]
Frank Beamer is a college football institution, and Virginia Tech solidified that status this week when it renamed Spring Road Beamer Way. Given the recent trajectory of Hokies football, the symbolic gesture almost feels like the proverbial gold watch for a valued employee his last week on the job. Frank Beamer is one of the […]
Virginia Tech Fullback Takes Tips from Kobe Bryant Andy Bitter, The Roanoke Times While Virginia Tech fullback Sam Rogers is rehabbing an elbow injury he sustained in December’s Military Bowl, Hokies running back Shane Beamer gave Rogers some work. Andy Bitter details Rogers’ homework, which includes watching Kobe Bryant’s documentary, Kobe’s Muse. What can one […]
The last Saturday of October is almost complete, and the ACC Coastal championship race is no more clear now than it was in the summer.
The American Athletic Conference is something of the conference without a nation, so when East Carolina beat Virginia Tech Saturday in Blacksburg, it’s somewhat fitting that it was a Pirates’ flag flying high over ACC Country.
Certainly, other divisions in other conferences around college football are deeper and more top-heavy than the ACC Coastal. At best, the division will have one team crack the preseason Top 25-barely, if at all. But no division promises the same kind of top-to-bottom unpredictably heading into the 2014 as the ACC Coastal.
