Spring Football 2005: Scrimmage Notes

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Observers of Wednesday's scrimmage came away impressed with two players: Marcus Vick and Branden Ore. Find out whatour insiders had to say about those two, plus get some descriptions of the action in [...] READ MORE


Tourney Thoughts

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The college basketball season winds down to aprecious few games, namely the three that will comprise the Final Four. Thisweekend will certainly have to go some distance to match the sheer excitementthat [...] READ MORE



A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Gearing Up for Next Year

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The most bothersome aspect of March basketball is the suddenness with whichyour season can end, especially if your last game was one that you would love torepeat, so as to wipe away the bad taste in your [...] READ MORE




Expectations

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It’s all a matter of perception and expectations. TheVirginia Tech basketball season that ended its season last Saturday with a BealeStreet blues-inspiring performance against Memphis is regarded as a [...] READ MORE


Spring Practice 2005 Starts Today

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Spring Practice Starts TodayNow that the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team’s postseason run is over, there won’t be any time for thehardcore Hokie sports fans to catch their collective breath, because [...] READ MORE


Bryan Randall Rookie Diary #4: Pro Day Number One

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Here's Bryan Randall's report from Pro Day #1 on the VTcampus last Thursday, March 17th, when NFL scouts and coaches arrived at VT towork out the VT seniors.The night before is nerve racking, not knowingexactly [...] READ MORE


A Good Start

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If you've read it once, you've read it a million times:Eight wins in the ACC far exceeded anyone's expectations, Seth Greenberg isdoing a great job with the Virginia Tech program, the Hokies are competitive [...] READ MORE


Spring Football 2005 Preview: The Defense

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While the offense definitely had its moments lastyear, especially late in the season, the lynchpin of VT’s return to the BCSwas its defense. Gone were the days of laughing quarterbacks, replaced by skillposition [...] READ MORE


VT Offers Minor

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According to Varina assistant coach Blanda Wolfe, running back Brandon Minor has added Virginia Tech to his growing list of scholarship offers. Right now, the only official offers coach Wolfe knows about [...] READ MORE



A Gym Rat’s Notebook: A Double Scoop, Please

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You have to go back and test your memory, but it was two women's basketballcoaches ago, and three men’s coaches, before you can correctly answer thetrivia question that perhaps many have not even considered. [...] READ MORE


Hokies Headed to Memphis for Round 2 of NIT

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Hokies Headed to Memphis for Round 2 of NITAfter a number of different reported times and locations,the National Invitation Tournament committee decided to hold the second roundgame between Virginia Tech [...] READ MORE


Hokies Embrace the NIT

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Sometime Tuesday afternoon, I came to aninteresting revelation: the last time the Hokies played postseason basketball,TechSideline.com – actually, HokieCentral.com, which was the site's first name– wasn't [...] READ MORE


Gloster’s Recruitment Heating Up

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6-4, 220-pound Good Counsel (Wheaton, MD) WR/DE Drew Gloster certainly has excellent bloodlines on both sides of the family when it comes to playing football. “My dad played in high school and he [...] READ MORE



Good Counsel Star Talks Recruiting

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Linebacker or safety? Good Counsel (Wheaton, MD) star Akeem Hebron plays linebacker in high school but could project as a safety on the next level depending on how much weight he can add to his 6-2, [...] READ MORE


Spring Football 2005 Preview: The Offense

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2005 will be a season of great expectations for VirginiaTech’s coaches, players and fans. Several years of quality recruiting classes,along with the restoration of VT’s lunch pail approach during last [...] READ MORE


Hokies Get Home NIT Game vs. Temple

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Hokies Get Home NIT Game vs. TempleAfter eight seasons of no postseason action, the Virginia Tech Hokies make their returnto postseason play in the NIT, with a home game Tuesday night at 8 pm versus the [...] READ MORE



Steeped in Tradition and Lore

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Everybody who grew up in the region thatstretches from Maryland to Georgia has their childhood story about the ACCtournament, about how it causes a big stir and how time stops in some placeswhen the tourney [...] READ MORE


This One Will be Different

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I have attended several ACC tournaments over the years. Contrary to popular belief, it isnot that hard to cop tickets. All you have to do is be friends with a Duke alum whose classmate donated over $250k [...] READ MORE


A Gym Rat’s Notebook: Cleansing the Demons

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March Madness has arrived with gale force in Blacksburg. The ACC tournamenttips off Thursday, and recent history tells us that Virginia Tech will sit idlyby and watch the opening games of the tournament [...] READ MORE