Ever heard of Grayson Allen? If you are like me, then you hadn’t until you turned on the TV or radio after last week’s NCAA Championship game. If you have not heard yet, he is a freshman basketball player at Duke who emerged as a game changer. He was the Cinderella story of the NationalRead… Read more »
Bracketology is quickly emerging a new national pastime every March. We finally have a word to describe the hours upon hours devoted to determining the winner of the NCAA tournament. Is it Kentucky this year? What about Syracuse, North Carolina or Kansas? Well, GCN is getting in on the madness and asking people to voteRead… Read more »
This is my absolute favorite time of year. NCAA Basketball Tourney Time! So much energy and possibilities; any team can win on any give day. Being a HUGE University of Kentucky (UK) Wildcats fan, though, makes it really hard for me to objectively pick winners in the tournament pool I run every year. And thisRead… Read more »
What a week for college football!! According to Mark Schlabach, here’s what’s at stake in the high stakes of college football realignment. Let the Hokie Guru remind you… the only think that matters in college athletics is the money… we all would like to think that the student athlete matters in major college athletics… andRead… Read more »
Wayman Tisdale lost a two-year battle yesterday with colon cancer. He was universally loved by everyone. And I mean everyone… even rival coaches. Billy Tubbs recruited Tisdale to Oklahoma… Tisdale was the kid everyone wanted. He was Blake Griffin way before Blake Griffin. He was only 44 years old and had transitioned to his secondRead… Read more »
Hola, GovLoopers… it’s been a while since the Hokie Guru’s presence graced GovLoop.. and please don’t talk or write in the passive voice like that… only trained bloggers can do that!! 🙂 Hey, let’s step back… into 1989… Man, if you had long hair between 1989 and 1992, any major record label signed you toRead… Read more »
Yesterday, the madness began with Cleveland State in the south, the west with Whiskey, and the east with tiny Siena College. This is why the country loves March Madness; teams like Cleveland State University and Siena can capture the nation’s heart in a matter of weeks. Cleveland State University is a young urban institution (withRead… Read more »
Govloopers, It’s March Madness (e.g. the Men’s NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament) on Govloop 🙂 Please enter Govloop’s March Madness Bracket Challege here. Password = govloop
Who’s a giant killer, baby? #1 Wake Forest goes down to the Virginia Tech Hokies!! Another post later this week… but, please, can someone tell the Hokie Guru if Chas McFarland should be suspended by the Atlantic Coast Conference for a game?
Readers, no college football picks this week… we’ll get back to that next week. And this accounting class is making the Hokie Guru work hard; he’s trying to convert to the GS-511 Auditor Series in the federal government. In other news, President-Elect Barrack Obama wants a college football playoff. Sounds like we would get alongRead… Read more »