college sports...

all right, it is clearly not a typical year when I caught my first Tar Heel basketball game just last weekend... how a year changes things... the NBA draft lured all the big names away and the team is really, really young... heck, David Noel is about the only guy with any serious court time the last few years... it appears that the boys in blue are kind of on the border of the top 25 (fell out of the AP and #25 in the ESPN Poll)... They do have a decent freshman big guy in Tyler Hansbrough and it looks like the ACC is giving him a good initiation to play in the paint in the ACC... at least last week's game at Florida State seemed that way. At least they are beating Arizona at the half right now and maybe if they win will be able to position themselves for the rest of the ACC season and a good tournament in March.

Now, the guys on skates in maroon and gold are doing a little better... one of the best things about digital cable is that the Gophers hockey team is on Fox Sports virtually every weekend... and we have seen several of those games, and it is nice that they are winning a lot of games - including over #2 Wisconsin last night. Go Gophers!