Headline News!!

Ah. Sorry y'all. It's almost been a week since my last post.

No one is reading this to care, but I still feel bad.

So here are a couple things that happened in the past week:

UNC beats Duke; Takes Number One in ACC
- Duh. We all kinda new this was going to happen. Sorry Dookies, it was just obvious that this was going to happen. The ACC Tourney starts tomorrow!

Octomom 911 call released
- I don't want to hate on the Octomom, but this call was craaazy! She didn't know where her kid was, even though he was with the nanny. I know this happens, where the kid disappears and you freak out - but she was threatening to kill herself on the 911 call! What about your five other (at the time) kids?? Cuckcoo!

Brit's who-ha makes news
- The audio of Britney Spears talking about her "waldrobe malfunction" was released. She was talking about that you could see it. Ummm... this isn't the first time your who-ha has made the news. Who HASN'T seen that?

Football Players Lost at Sea
- So the one survivor is the only survivor. That's just sad. A fishing trip gone wrong and it's just so hard to think about the families. It's one thing to die on land, at least then there is a CHANCE to get the body back and mourn. But bodies lost at sea rarely ever turn up, especially how far out they were. R.I.P.

Stabbed in Head
- How crazy was this? Tampa Bay Bucs linebacker Geno Hayes was stabbed in the head and neck by his crazy girlfriend! Hayes was taken to a hospital by a friend Saturday. I bet he wishes he'd stayed at Florida State a little longer and never met that crazy woman. Speaking of domestic violence...

Chris Brown vs. Rihanna: Round 57
- I say versus, but its really not. They got back together. Why, I'll never know. Its like she doesn't realize he beat the shit out of her. He went to court a week ago, and the details of the police report was released. The reports been out about a week, but I'm still gonna post it later. It's a good read, in a bad way. Her people don't want pictures of the two of them together to get out, his people do. Go figure!

Hmmm... what else. I'm sure is tons more that I would have/should have written about, but I can't find my list right now.

Sorry for the delay peeps!

Eve Carson: One Year Later

UNC's Student Body President Eve Carson was murdered one year ago today.

Eve is such an inspiration to a lot of students and it was good to see her represented so well today. Check out the video below. It's the memorial held today at "the Pit" at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Today - the school and media honored Carson's memory.

• UNC's Eve Carson Page
• Raleigh News & Observer
• WBTV
• WCNC

I hope the guys responsible get what they deserve.

Are you ready for some football?!?

Like I mentioned in the last post - the ACC released its team schedules for the '09 Season.

Big happenings already in play.

First - the Miami/FSU rivalry is coming back to Labor Day Monday, this year in Tallahassee.

The ACC Championship Game will be played on Dec. 5 in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. Can't wait until that thing moves to Charlotte!

Another big side note -- there are already six Thursday Night ESPN appearances slated for the ACC.

• NC State vs South Carolina on Sept. 3
  
• Clemson at Georgia Tech on Sept. 10
  
• Georgia Tech at Miami on Sept. 17
  
• Florida State at North Carolina on Oct. 22
  
• North Carolina at Virginia Tech on Oct. 29
  
• Virginia Tech at East Carolina on Nov. 5.

Notice GT, UNC and VT all have two Thursday night appearances. All of them, two weeks in a row...

I don't know how I feel about Thursday night games. As a spectator, I love them. When my team is playing, I hate them. Especially on a home game, when I could be there, but since its on Thursday, you can't because of work.

If you want to look at all the ACC teams' schedule, there is a link below.

All ACC team schedules

Coach K: 'We’re not as good as they are right now. They’re better than us'

The man said it... after a 101-87 beating - Coach K told the world the North Carolina Tar Heels are better than the Duke Blue Devils.

Now... to be fair, that's only part of the quote. Here's the whole thing:

"...we’re not as good as they are right now. They’re better than us, and sometimes a team that’s better doesn’t play as well as that, but they played that way too. It’s going to be difficult to beat them. We just have to keep getting better. We’ve come a long away from last Wednesday and we just have to keep improving.”

So what's this "last Wednesday" he's referring to? That's the Blue Devil's 47-74 loss to the ACC's Clemson Tigers.

In that loss, Coach K admitted "It was 40 minutes of them dominating, they just kicked our butts."

So is this a trend - or just a really bad week for the Duke b-ball team? Are the Blue Devils on the way down?

Tonight a NC rivalry hits center stage

Terrible T and the UNC Tar Heels take on Duke and the Cameron Crazies in Durham.

Even for non-fans of basketball and non-fans of the Dookies and Tar Holes, this is an exciting night. Personally, I don't care for either team, but will I watch? Yes.

Why? It's one of the best rivalries in all of college basketball. If this was football, I wouldn't waste my time with them, but they actually do WELL with basketball.

T. Hansbrough is kind of a douche bag, but he brings intensity to the court. Greg Paulus is kinda short and reminds me of a young Muggsy Bogues. Yes, we all know that Kyle Singler is the big name at Duke, but Paulus just makes me laugh.

Either way, I'll be watching the game.

Who will I pull for? Depends on which crowd I'm nearest when I'm watching the game. Nah, I'm kidding. I have my hopes, I'll just keep them to myself.

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Check out Charlotte Observer sports columnist Scott Fowler's 2 favorite UNC/Duke moments.