Underdog Georgia Tech is well on their way to sweeping Pool A of the 2012 ACC baseball tournament.No. 8 seed Georgia Tech shocked the field when they beat No. 1 seed Florida State, but nobody expected them to dominate the tournament. That's just what they're doing so far, as their 17-5 victory over Virginia today clearly demonstrates.I was one of the folks who didn't see this coming. In fact, after they edged Florida State 5-4 ...

Georgia Tech already has the attention of the NCAA selection committee after knocking off top-ranked Florida State in the ACC tournament. Now, it just needs to keep the momentum going in order to ensure a bid in baseball's Big Dance. It won't be easy. Their record stands at 34-24 overall—just one loss fewer than head coach Danny Hall's worst season ever, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Ken Sugiura—and 12-18 in conference play. Given the immense ...

The Rimington Award released its annual preseason watch list, covering a not-at-all unreasonable 50 centers who are projected to start for their teams in 2012. As one person pointed out, that's over 40% of all starting centers in the entire FBS, so not a whole lot of prestige here.At any rate, though, the Big Ten is at least a little better represented in the Rimington Watch List, with fully half of the league's starting centers ...

It may seem a little early to bring up the term "Hall of Fame" with a coach who is still relatively young, but with a career more than a decade long, there is plenty to sample from up to this point.  Coach Mark Richt arrived at Georgia for the 2001 season after several attempts to replace the legendary Vince Dooley had failed and left fans longing for the days of old.  By his second season, ...

SEC baseball is alive and well in Hoover, Alabama this holiday weekend, but the same may not be the case for LSU if history repeats itself.  Friday's 4:00 PM affair with sixth-seeded Mississippi State looms on the horizon for the top-seeded Tigers, who will need to proceed cautiously if they are to make it out alive and advance to Saturday's semifinal round.    When a huge underdog beats up on a favorite, it always makes ...

The 2012 NBA draft has amazing players from top to bottom, and the field generals in the draft are no exception.Although it is the forwards that are making all of the noise in most people's NBA mock drafts, the point guards should be getting a lot of hype as well, since point guards kind of control the tempo of the game and all.Read on to see the eight best court generals available in the draft. Begin ...

Every Friday on the SEC Blog, we will feature the tweets of the week from SEC players, coaches and media personalities. Twitter has given everybody a voice, including college football coaches. LSU head coach Les Miles took the time this week to update his followers on his role in one of ESPN's upcoming college football commercials. Look out, Tony Awards. Doing commercial for EA sports The Game... I didn't know it was a musical or that my role ...

There is a new "rumor" that has surfaced in the most recent round of conference insanity...err, I mean conference stupidity...um, I mean conference absolute freaking ridiculousness, a.k.a. conference realignment. Or, as some like to call it, piling up the cash so some can't reach it and the good old boys can collect it.In any case, there is a new "rumor" which most of you have probably already heard. The story goes like this: The Big ...

Every week, the Big Ten Blog will break down one classic game from the Big Ten's long, storied history. Today, we're looking at one of the weirdest games in Big Ten history, and one of the most disrespectful safeties ever taken.There aren't many games where afterwards, fans on both sides of the field can agree that football had been sent back decades by what just transpired. Iowa at Penn State in 2004—a game that both ...

Tennessee announced on Friday that tight end Cameron Clear has been dismissed from the team following an arrest last week for felony theft of a laptop belonging to a Tennessee baseball player.Clear was listed on Tennessee's post-spring depth chart as the second-team tight end behind senior Mychal Rivera. Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley commented on the dismissal in a release by the University.It hurts anytime a player is dismissed from the program,but there comes a time ...