Happy New Year

The Gryphon boys basketball team will not wait long to get back to the hardwood after a sixth place finish in the GlaxoSmithKline tournament early in the week.

They will travel to Kinston Saturday (6:30 p.m. tip) to play in an endowment game. After starting out 5-0, the Gryphons have fallen to 6-4 and have another toughie Saturday.

I have just watched Carolina take care of Nevada just past the stroke of midnight. If the Heels play every game like they played tonight, they will be hard to beat.

Duke beat Loyola of Maryland 91-52. The same Loyola team that took State to the wire Monday. State took care of Towson State by 20.

Nolan Smith who has won the point guard position at Duke hurt his knee in today's game. The Duke Nation holds their breath waiting to hear the verdict on the severity of the injury.

I would have to say today's bowl games as a group were about as bad as they can get.

Pittsburgh and Oregon State combined to play a hockey match with State winning 3-0. Apparently the offenses stayed home for the holidays.

Boston College lost to Vanderbilt - that's right, Vanderbilt. The same team Duke beat in Nashville. Maybe Duke should have played and BC stayed home.

Maybe they forgot, but Georgia Tech was playing in front of the home folks and were down by 32 at the half. Thanks for making the ACC look good, Yellow Jackets.

The ACC is 3-5 so far in the bowl games.

The Carolina Hurricanes won last night and of course I had a seat in my living room to watch. I will say one thing for HD TV. It is easier following the puck in HD over regular TV.

Stephan Virgil and the Virginia Tech Hokies are front and center in the Orange bowl Thursday night.

J.J. Arrington and the Arizona Cardinals begin play in the NFL playoffs Saturday afternoon. Julius Peppers and the Carolina Panthers do not play until Saturday, Jan. 10.

I wonder why that the NFL will have a Saturday night prime time game on each of the next two weeks but not on Sunday night? The Sunday games both weekends start at 1 and 4.30 p.m. Strange.

Seems as successful the Sunday Night games have become and how much the NFL wants to make money seems like Sunday night prime time would be more advertising money.

I saw this on a blog, so I don't know how true it is, but for all you Dallas Cowboy fans who want to get season tickets next year in the new Billion dollar stadium, the cheapest seat in the place is $247 a ticket. Well Jerry Jones has to pay for the place some how. Can you imagine what parking will cost?

A round trip flight from Raleigh-Durham will be cheaper than the game. All you Dallas fans show how much you really like the Cowboys by buying season tickets today. Hurry they are selling fast. Eight regular season games and two preseason games will only cost you $2,470 for the nose bleed section. I really was hoping for a 50-yard line seats. The way the economy is right now, II doubt if I can float a loan for one 50-yard line seat for just one game.

Through tonight's college bowl games, I have fallen to 10-12 in my picks.