I live in ACC country. I'm a Virgina Tech fan. When we play UNC it always seems that Ttyler Hansbrough has some lucky-ass last second shot to beat us. Matter of fact, he does it with Duke, FSU, Wake, etc. It seems that he has last second shots to win the game 20 times a season. It dawned on me last year after he did it to us again: if you do it once, it is luck, if you do it twice, it is luck, if you do it 15 times...is it luck or is it skill?

Fedor begs one to ask the same question.

The biggest slam on Fedor (no pun intended) is that he hasn't really fought great competition. At least not top notch competition. The toughest opponent he's ever face (in my opinion) is Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Everyone else was either at a bad point in their career (Sylvia, Arlovski), not really super great to begin with (Coleman, Randellman, Lindland), or just outright silly (Hong Man Choi). With the exception of Sylvia, Nogueira, and Arlovski, anyone Fedor has fought that was in the UFC would be considered 'mid-card' guys at best. The rest couldn't even make it through TUF.

So while Saturday night's even introduced the US casual MMA viewer to Fedor, it doesn't answer some of the questions the more knowledgeable, hard core fans have about the man. In the pre-fight hype Frank Shamrock made the statement that "Fedor is the best in the world but the guy he is facing is the second best in the world". Now I'm not going to fault Shamrock for selling the fight, but he knows, you know, and I know that Brett Rogers, who I have a lot of respect for now, is NOT the second best heavyweight fighter in the world. He isn't even the 10th.

When Fedor came out, got his nose broken with the first punch, got knocked down, pummeled, then came back in the second round and threw one of the 'right on the button' punches we seen him throw before (although Arlovski didn't see it, hehe) to knock Rogers out, was it the 'worlds best fighter doing what he does' or was it 'damn, he got lucky again'?

The one thing I felt I knew after that fight on Saturday night was this: Brock Lesnar would destroy Fedor. Hell, I'd have to be on Randy Coutour still beating him. The top 5 fighters in the UFC would probably beat him. Certainly Lesnar would. But there is that little bug behind my ear asking "or would Fedor weather the storm then knock Brock out 20 seconds into the second round?". Like I said, when a man makes a lucky shot 20 times...it isn't luck. I can't imagine Fedor would do that great in the UFC and it is probably better he is in Strikeforce, then again...

I'm just wondering if he will shut the critics (and fans) up and jump to the UFC and win the title. I'm sure he is not afraid or anyone in the UFC, but then again, there are a few guys that could perhaps beat him, staining his sparkling reputation as the greatest of all time. Pretty much all of the big boys (or at least those left) are in the UFC. I just don't know why he wouldn't go there, honestly, unless he is worried about the competition (well, he probably isn't but his management might be).

What do you think?

From SportingNews.com.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) _ The Atlantic Coast Conference's football championship game is moving back to prime-time television.

The ACC said Wednesday this year's game will kickoff at 8 p.m. on Dec. 5 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. ESPN will broadcast the game.

It's the first prime-time kickoff for the ACC title game since the inaugural contest in 2005. The game has started at 1 p.m. in each of the past three seasons. ABC televised the first four title games.

Finally! Now all we have to do is have it played in Charlotte (I know, I know..its coming) and we will be golden. It will be much more impressive with a packed house, which is what Charlotte offers. Thought I'd just let yall know.

First of all, IMHO this was one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen on TUF. Maybe THE most inspiring. It was like friggin Rocky. Frank has impressed me with his attitude, humor, and his toughness beyond what I thought a fighter could that wasn't a proven champ. I mean, this guy was beat up bigtime, clearly sore, and afraid because of that and the fact that he was fighting the Brits 'best' guy. He manned up, took a beating, and dished one out, too. I don't think that, even without his throat issues, Faulkner could have beaten him. He just reminded me of the scrappy American standing toe-to-toe and banging it out. I thought it did Frank, Dan, and the US well. Yeah, sure this isn't the Olympics, but the US team has really come together and taken the national spirit over the past several weeks, and I'm a sucker for all of that stuff!

Dan Henderson has turned out to really be cool. I got that sense from him a couple of years ago, but now he is really cool in my eyes. He didn't back down from Bisping in any way. Not that you would expect him to, but still he does not back down and defends his boys.

I'm really enjoying this season. Things started off bad for Team US and the Brits were getting along a lot better at first, but the US got into a groove and sort of weeded out the jerks and one quitter.

As for Faulkner, I'm really stunned about him. He was supposed to be England's best fighter! Turns out that he wants to be a pro-wrestler. Got news for him...that isn't such an easy life either!

One thing I was really surprised about what how much of a whiny jackass Michael Bisping is. Really immature and a real hypocrite and idiot, actually. I remember him being pretty cool on his TUF, but he acts like a baby. I mean, he really loves to talk shit but when someone else talks shit to him he acts like they are classless and out of line! I mean, yeah, I hate the hypocracy that blacks being making fun of whites are funny while whites making fun of blacks as racist. I personally just make fun of everyone (myself included) and if they can't take a joke, fuck 'em! However, the comment from Johnson was reeeeeeally minor, and not really racist. He just said that Bisping looked whiter than a band-aid because the guy is as white as a sheet of paper (they don't have a sun in England?). It wasn't like he called him a cracker or something. Anyway, Bisping had been talking shit since the beginning, but gets upset when someone hits back. And squirting water in Johnson's face was childish and uncalled for. Then when Johnson gets pissed Bisping acts like 'why can't you take a joke'. Like Dan told him later, he wouldn't like it if someone did that to him. "Fair enough" he replied. Come on, Bisping, did you really think that was appropriate?

Anyway, I'm very happy Team Dan/US came back and is meshed well, fought well, and shown guts. It's just a shame that Bisping turned out to be such a prick.

While there are many, many reported stories involving Bas Rutten, this is my favorite

Bas and a couple of buddies (one was famous but I can't remember who it was) were out at a bar in Japan. Several US soldiers were sitting in a corner and for some reason one came up and started giving Bas shit. The guy said he was a SEAL but Bas says that 'yeah, lots of people say that' (because lets face it, a SEAL or Special Forces have enough deadly hand-to-hand to give Bas some problems, plus they are disciplined to the max). Anyway, Bas said he tried to walk away and the guy hit him. Bas got the guy in a leg-lock and the guy screams 'please let me go, i'm sorry!'. Bas said, 'okay, i'll let you up, but this is over, right?', and the guy said 'yes'. Bas let him go and the guy attacked him again. So Bas put him in another submission and the guy starts screaming again 'im sorry im sorry! i won't do it again.' Bas let him up and the guy attacked him YET AGAIN! (now we know the guy wasn't a SEAL or SF because those guys are not stupid). So this time Bas choked him out, pulled his pants down to his ankles and left him laying there with his weenie hanging out for all to see. Bas and his friends left the bar.

Damn, I love that story!