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Sunday ACC Basketball: Hokies Win On Last Second Shot

THE GAME-WINNER (Matt Gentry/Roanoke Times/AP Photo)VIRGINIA TECH 66, BOSTON COLLEGE 65 - When Virginia Tech's Dorian Finney-Smith saw teammate Robert Brown's 3-point attempt in the waning moments bounce off the rim and up into the air, he knew exactly what was going to take place."It was slow motion," Finney-Smith said. "I was like, `Oh yeah, I've got...
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Penn State Scandal Update

(Alex Brandon/AP Photo)(AP - edited) Former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's requests for greater freedom of movement -- and visits from his young grandchildren -- while he awaits trial on child sex-abuse charges were taken under advisement by a judge Friday, but prosecutors countered that Sandusky's home is not a safe place for children.Judge John Cleland set...
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Saturday ACC Basketball

MIAMI @ FLORIDA STATE, 1pm, ACC Network/ESPN3#20 VIRGINIA @ #5 NORTH CAROLINA, 2pm/ACC Network/ESPN3CLEMSON @ WAKE FOREST, 4pm, RSN/ESPN3MARYLAND @ #9 DUKE, 4pm, ESPN/ESPN3
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Terps To Honor Graham and Rhodes

By Liz Clarke/Washington PostMaryland officials on Wednesday announced that Ernie Graham and Johnny Rhodes will become the 17th and 18th former men’s basketball players to have their jerseys honored in pregame ceremonies at Comcast Center later this month.Graham will have his jersey raised on Feb. 16, when Maryland hosts Boston College. Rhodes’s jersey will be honored Feb. 21...
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ACC Basketball: Where We Stand

Subject to change...Here are the standings for men’s basketball with a pretty fullslate of ACC games coming up this weekend. SATURDAYMiami @ Florida StateVirginia @ North CarolinaClemson @ Wake ForestMaryland @ DukeSUNDAYBoston College @ Virginia TechIf the season ended today, we would predict that six ACCteams – the top six in the standings – would be invited to the NCAA tournament...
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Thursday Night ACC Hoops

C.J. LESLIE (John Bazemore/AP Photo)N.C. STATE 61, GEORGIA TECH 52 - C.J. Williams scored 15 points and North Carolina State avenged a loss to Georgia Tech last month, holding off the Yellow Jackets Thursday night.The Wolfpack (18-7, 7-3 ACC) got a typically balanced scoring attack, with three other players in double figures. Kammeon Holsey had 17 points for Georgia Tech (9-15, 2...
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Gimme Three (or Four) Steps Mister...

...And you’ll never see me no more!Tar Heel Nation is unhappy with this non-call of a travel on Set Curry before he buried a three point bomb during Duke’s furious late rally. Blue Devil fans counter with “Well, yeah, what about this uncalled foul and that uncalled foul? The Tar Heels were (fill in the blank) the whole damn game!”Or something like that...and, that exchange...
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Wolfpack Have The Most Big Macs

LEWIS (Michael Beswick/The Republican)And we don’t mean in that “do you want fries with that” sort of way, but in the McDonald’s All-American basketball team where Duke and North Carolina typically dominate the hamburger helpers.N.C. State leads the way with three All-American recruits: point guard Tyler Lewis of Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.), shooting guard Rodney...
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UNC's Strickland Has Knee Surgery

(via Twitter)North Carolina junior Dexter Strickland has had surgery to repair a knee injury that will sideline him the rest of the season.Strickland had reconstructive surgery Thursday on his torn right anterior cruciate ligament as well as damaged meniscus. Strickland was hurt on a drive to the basket in the Tar Heels' win at Virginia Tech on Jan. 19.The school says Strickland...
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Notes From ESPN’s College Basketball Nation Blog

(Bob Donnan/US Presswire)By Myron Medcalf/ESPN: These players...and teams have changed our perceptions, expectations and projections in the middle of the season. Some for better, some for worse. The bottom line is that we have a completely different take on these players right now than we did in November. Some of these characters even changed our minds overnight. They’ve certainly...
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Pictures Of The Da(l)y

John Daly plays a variety of shots during the second round of the 2012 Omega Dubai Desert Classic on the Majilis Course at the Emirates Golf Club on February 10, 2012 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Daly is -1 after two rounds and unlikely to make the cut. The current leader, Rory McIlroy is -13. (Photos by David Cannon and Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)
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The Battle For Tobacco Road Explained

(Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)Why Duke Won:1) The Blue Devils refused to quit when they had multiple opportunities to do so.2) They hit three key three pointers down the stretch and outscored Carolina 42-3 from behind the arc.3) They were a little lucky – Zeller’s tip, Kelly’s longrebound, Curry’s uncalled travel.Why North Carolina Lost:1) Flawed end-game strategy or execution...
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ACC Wednesday Night Basketball

THE GAME WINNER (Streeter Lecka/Getty)#9 DUKE 85, #5 NORTH CAROLINA 84 - For the first 15 minutes of the game, it looked like #5 North Carolina couldn’t win, and for almost all of the second half it seemed like they couldn’t lose...But, evidently, nobody told #9 Duke that...Add another chapter to the storied Tobacco Road rivalry as last night the Tar Heels led every minute of...
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Quote Of The Day

(Robert Willett/Raleigh News & Observer)"They're really good and they can knock you out. And we didn't get knocked out. And as a result, we hung in there and we won the last round. I'm not sure we won the whole fight, but the last round, we did, and we won the game. But we fought the entire time. We fought a really good fight."-- Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
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Quote Of The Day 2

SNAER (L) (Photo by Elise Amendola/AP Photo)“Starting off the game, what we did, not respecting that team—we weren’t as focused as we should have been and that caught up with us at the end of the game. We get national recognition, and we didn’t handle it well.”-- Florida State guard Michael Snaer Wednesday night after BC beat the Seminoles 64-60 to snap their seven-game win streak.
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Quote Of The Day 3

(Robert Willett/Raleigh News & Observer)"We had been closing games pretty well. But we didn't tonight."-- UNC head coach Roy Williams.
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Part 2:Things That Make You Go...

Hmmm....Tiger Woods walks to his ball on the 5th green of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club shore course as waves crash in the background during practice for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. (Photo by Eric Risberg/AP)
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Tuesday ACC Basketball

MARYLAND 64, CLEMSON 62 - Terrell Stoglin scored a game-high 27 points and helped Maryland hold off a late rally by Clemson Tuesday night.The Terrapins (14-9, 4-5 ACC) were seemingly in control, leading 53-39 with 7:55 to go, but the Tigers (11-12, 3-6) went on a 19-6 run to cut the lead to a single point on a pair of free throws by Devin Booker with 1:14 remaining.After a Maryland...
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ACC Players Of The Week

JOHNSON (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer)Miami center Reggie Johnson, whose low-post presence helpedthe Hurricanes to a pair of overtime victories in conference play, has beennamed ACC Player of the Week for the week ending Sunday, Feb. 5.In voting for Rookie of the Week, Duke guard Austin Riversearned acclaim for the third consecutive week and for the sixth time in 13opportunities...
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Things That Make You Go...

Hmmm...Just sayin...
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Down Goes Duke…Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That…

KENNY KADJ AND REGGIE JOHNSON (Chuck Liddy/News & Observer)Tar Heel Nation celebrated yesterday as they preppedfor the Super Bowl when they learned that Miami had upset Duke. Then they realized the now-very angry Coach Kand his boys were headed to Chapel Hill on Wednesday night…Reggie Johnson scored five of his career-high 27 points inovertime and Kenny Kadji added 15 points...
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Saturday ACC Basketball

BARNES (Nick Wass/AP Photo)#5 NORTH CAROLINA 83, MARYLAND 74 – Harrison Barnes’ callingcard last season eventually was his late game impact and Saturday the talented sophomoreagain stepped up late in the game to help UNC secure a tough road win inCollege Park. Tyler Zeller scored22 points, John Henson had 17 points and 12 rebounds while Kendall Marshall registered16 assists....
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Thursday Night ACC Basketball

RIVERS (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer)#7 DUKE 75, VIRGINIA TECH 60 - Evidently, Coach K wasn’t pleased with his team’s seven point win over 10-12 St. John’s last weekend. This we he made changes to the starting lineup, endorsed a team ban on social media and took a to Blacksburg.It looked to have paid off as the Blue Devils put together one of their more complete...
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J.P. Giglio On Boston College: Expansion “Killed” ACC Basketball Brand

TEN MINUTES BEFORE TIPOFF?In an article on ACC now, veteran Raleigh News & Observer sports reporter J.P. Giglio made some pointed observations about the tiny crowd (3,611) in Boston for the BC/N.C. State game earlier this week.Here is a small excerpt: "There are valid reasons for that (the small crowd), I'm not disputing that, just pointing out the reality. And please...
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R.I.P. Angelo Dundee 1921-2012

(Dan Grossi/AP File Photo)Angelo Dundee, the brilliant motivator who worked the corner for Muhammad Ali in his greatest fights and willed Sugar Ray Leonard to victory in his biggest bout, died Wednesday in Tampa, Fla. He was 90.The genial Dundee was best known for being in Ali’s corner for almost his entire career, but those in boxing also knew him as an ambassador for boxing and...
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