ESPN experts

Return to Forum

Please with your WRAL.com account to comment on this story.

Oldest First
  • StunGunn Mar 24, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    I bet he is all class, T. Comes across as very humble and real. Look what he's been through. Said the first job he got after his NBA career ended paid $30K a year. Look at him now! Worked his tail off to get where he is, too.

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 24, 2016
    Sports Legend

    Met him a few times a very classy guy. Every time I see him I tell him he is the best point guard in Duke history. He says every time, naw Mr. Bobby Hurley!!! LOL!

  • StunGunn Mar 23, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    Like Jay Will too! Great guy, smart, and no attitude. Want to buy his book.

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 23, 2016
    Sports Legend

    I like Kenny and Charles also. I have never liked Duke Vitale. Bilas thinks he is never wrong. When Hubert Davis was on ESPN he was too bias to UNC. I think Jay Williams does a good job.

  • StunGunn Mar 23, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    Funny about Bilas!
    I actually like Kenny (admittedly, some of it may be due to his alma mater), and I like Ernie. Sir Charles is only good for comic relief IMHO. He may be a hall of famer, but he usually seems hungover, and I don't find his comments insightful, but maybe it's just me. I agree that these guys don't watch the college games, and it's obvious by their comments.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 21, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    if Dr. Phil and David Glenn had a child It would be Jay Bilas, some of these lower tier coaches no more about basketball than Bilas, Vitale and Jay Williams put together-wish they would get these guys that do pro games off the broadcast- Barkley is ok but Ernie and Kenny Smith are terrible.

  • StunGunn Mar 21, 2016
    Sports Legend

    ACC proving they're the best basketball Conference with six teams dancing into the Sweet 16! Yesterday's games were great - so exciting, buzzer beaters, Texas A&M coming back from 12 down with less than a minute in regulation.

    Max - Agree about S.A. Austin. Very happy for ND, but how heartbreaking for S.A. Austin - they played their hearts out.

    Bilias insisting there's no "parity" in college basketball, but after seeing all the lower seeds beating the higher seeds (Michigan State), I'm not so sure. Bilas is right in that the major conference teams are the ones cutting down the nets and winning it all, but I'm impressed with how the smaller, less heralded teams are playing, and they're not at all intimidated by the so-called blue bloods.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 21, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    The big 10 and big 12 has 3 each Pac 12 and SEC and the powerful Big East have 1 each
    The down ACC has 6, plus Gonzaga

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 21, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    12-1, Stephen F Austin lost a heart breaker but they won thousands and thousands of fans- I personally will be watching them next year every chance I get. They could be the next Gonzaga -talk about the luck of the Irish. Maybe some of these guys at the lower tier should be considered for coach of the year, a lot when given the chance do well against the big boys with less talent. If they get a 2 star player it is probably a major coup to them.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 20, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    10-1 and counting

  • uBnice Mar 19, 2016
    Pro

    Go ACC!

    8-1, Duke and Miami in Sweet 16. The Heels need to handle their business tonight.

  • StunGunn Mar 19, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    Love the first two days of the tourney!!!! 16 games on each day - wall to wall basketball.

    The Masters may be like "nothing else" , but it signals the end of college b ball, so it's sad to me, and time to do the countdown to football.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 19, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    some of the announcers were trying to downplay the fact that 13 under seeds won-saying they were playing over their heads- but I saw some darn good basketball teams-wish UNC-A and UNC-W could have been one to pull off an upset. great 2 days-hate its over

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 19, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    3 number 9 seeds win-- 2-#10 seeds win 3-11 seeds and 2 -12 seeds win-13,14, and 15 all win 1
    this was a great thursday /friday group of games

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 18, 2016
    Sports Legend

    Seton Hall and Baylor!! SMH!! Looking forward to Kentucky/Indiana!!

  • StunGunn Mar 18, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    Ha ha - probably right, Max!

  • StunGunn Mar 18, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    Tyler Ulis can ball! He may be short, but wow, dude is good.

  • StunGunn Mar 18, 2016
    Sports Legend

    Agree with you guys about the NCAAT! It's like having Christmas for a month for me!

    My brackets were busted with the first games yesterday. Didn't see Baylor losing or Purdue or Arizona. So much for the experts saying there wouldn't be any 12 - 5 upsets.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 18, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    2-11 seeds and 2 -12 seeds get the first day on track for some upsets.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 18, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    Seton Hall layed an egg -wow thought they would do better

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 16, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    sorry 4 out 7 I included Louisville

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 16, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    Did Clemson not get an NIT bid or did they turn it down- they had a winning record and beat 5 out of the 7 ACC teams in the NCAA.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 16, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    Fla. St. wins-Ga. Tech and Va.Tech play tonight

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 16, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    Getting closer only about 29 hours before march madness-

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 15, 2016
    Sports Legend

    The Masters, what a beautiful course!!

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 15, 2016
    Sports Legend

    I like Seton Hall also along with Baylor.

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 15, 2016
    Sports Legend

    Totally agree Max. These kids play their hearts out. Take a team lightly and you may go home. Stephen a plays the race card too much. He went to WSSU with a couple of my friends and they say he was terrible and just talked a good game and Big House Gaines loved him. Skip has a excuse for his teams when they lose. Loved it when Jalen Rose called him out. Skip said he was the star on his high school team and Jalen did some research and averaged 1.4 as a junior on JV and never made it to varsity. LOL!

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 15, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    just looked at NIT brackets - I love college hoops- there are some good match ups

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 15, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    TV-17 the new home for NCAA tourney games and right after the tourney they have the masters.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 15, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    View quoted thread


    Bayless is never happy about anything I think he thrives on misery-he is paired with another hopeless human being! The fact that most of these guys in the NCAA won't be playing pro is the reason I love this tournament, they are out there giving it everything they got-if you enjoy basketball, this weekend is heaven you can watch wall to wall basketball, several David and Goliath storylines, personally I don't watch pro's since the rules have become very liberal.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 15, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    View quoted thread


    I am picking Seton Hall as a sleeper-I left Belks earlier turned on the radio-Glenn is giving advice on picking your bracket -make that in his words expert advice, can't till I can get some advice from Gold and Oblivious- Wich.St could give some body some trouble G. Marshall always has his team ready.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 15, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    View quoted thread


    all these teams are not gonna play great in at least 2 of their games-just depends on the match up and how they compensate otherwise-to me that is what makes this fun to watch-Pitt can rebound but if they catch a team shooting lights out-hard to get a rebound if it goes in. Syracuse will have to be shooting lights out to advance to next week-75% they don't make it. Virginia, N.D., UNC, Duke and Miami have a better than 60% of making it.

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 15, 2016
    Sports Legend

    Was listening to Skip Bayless this morning on how he dislikes NCAA basketball. SMH! He says the tourney is overrated and over coached and half the rosters have zero NBA players. He only thinks NBA anyway. These young men live for this. A lot know their careers are over after their schools get beat, but they pour their hearts and play hard. I work around people that also don't get the hype during March Madness. I give up trying. Last point, its game seven every night in the NCAA tourney unlike the NBA!!

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 15, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    View quoted thread


    his first words from the crib was did you know- I am gonna be a lawyer, own a business, be very successful, have a super model wife and be the way I love iceberg lettuce.

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 15, 2016
    Sports Legend

    You are right Gunny Roy also. Never forget the title game when UNC took them to the wood shed in the State of Michigan.
    Looking for to a Baylor/Duke matchup. Please Mr. Grayson Allen please don't try and trip Mr. Rico Gathers.
    Also looking forward to a always UK/UNC matchup. Tyler Ulis is some kind of player, but Indiana will be a tough one for the Cats in the second round.

  • StunGunn Mar 15, 2016
    Sports Legend

    ^^^^^^
    Cont'd:
    shot, it's tough to beat other elite teams who can really shoot the three. I don't have any 12-seeds beating a 5 this year. One interesting stat I heard this morning: No #1-seed that didn't win their first game by double digits has ever won the tourney. Hope Carolina and UVA win big in their first round!

  • StunGunn Mar 15, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    You were pretty accurate with your brackets, beachblast!
    I think it will come down to Kansas and Michigan State, going with caulk, and since I'm terrible at upsets, that's what I went with. I did put Oregon in one of my brackets as the winner. I'd love to see a Kansas/UNC Championship game, with Roy cutting down the nets. I haven't watched any Oregon, Kansas games, and only a few minutes of Michigan State's tourney championship game, so I'm not a good judge of their strengths or weaknesses.

    I think Syracuse may lose their first game, and Pitt won't make it past the first weekend either. Miami can look really good, and then have a loss like the one in Raleigh. If Carolina had all their players show up and play their best ball, they'd be hard to beat, but that hasn't happened all season. They have really improved, especially on the defensive side of the ball, but not sure it's enough to beat Kansas, unless Paige finds his three-point

  • StunGunn Mar 15, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    You can't even type the new mascot for WRAL - the bird - it's banned due to it's second syllable. Oh and I think we need to have an over/under on how many times in one three-hour period David Glenn will remind us he's been covering the ACC "for 30 years". Must have started while he was in high school!

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 15, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    these guys in the morning and afternoon can swear and cuss and its ok
    but I used the word KRAP with a C or Ideeeot spelled the right way they ban it

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 15, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    can't see any ACC team going 6 games without a misstep-Miami can look great at times just depends on which game get them, they could go down 2thru 6
    Duke short bench will to them ceiling final 8, Syracuse just happy they got in couple of break they could to sweet 16-Pitt can look great but like krap and they can do it in the same game.
    Notre Dame has a better shot than Duke,Pitt,Miami and Syra. but think they will short fuse somewhere ceiling final.
    Virginia and UNC has a better shot than any ACC team to get past final 8, UNC matchups will depend on how they do Poor shooting will do them in. Va will be ok as long as they can control the tempo-after first weekend they will find it hard to do this. As a hold I think overall the ACC does good, but I see Kansas, Oregon or West Va.cuttin down the nets, but just like all my brackets over the years, I may look like an id---ot
    just my 2 cents

  • StunGunn Mar 14, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    So does Roy!!!

    Like Izzo, though, AKA "Mr. March" and Denzel Valentine is a great guy and has worked so hard. Want Carolina to be cutting down the nets, but if they can't I'd pull for MSU.

  • Toddler10-21 Mar 14, 2016
    Sports Legend

    No matter the seed just play the game and see what happens. A lot are high on Izzo and MSU. Ok they are good unless they have to play Duke because K owns Izzo!

  • StunGunn Mar 14, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    I'll suffer through any color analyst as long as it isn't Dickie V. It's just my opinion, but I think Burke and Antonelli are similar. Both do a decent job.

    Talking about arrogant and not accepting any opinion other than their own - I think Gold takes the cake on that one. He was so condescending after the Duke/ND game, saying "Duke did NOT run out of gas". Beg to differ, Mr. Know It All, Gold. It's one thing to have a difference of opinion, but at least respect the other person, and Gold didn't even want to entertain the possibility that Duke was running on fumes in the second half of the ACCT game against ND.

  • nmbeachblast53 Mar 13, 2016
    Towel Boy

    Final- Anxious to see how many I get wrong- i believe Syracuse will go if Conn. Loses
    13-seeds--UNC-W--Stoney Brook---Chatt.---Stephen F Austin
    14-seeds--Hawaii--Weber St.--UNC-Ashe---Wisc. GB
    15-Seeds--New Mex. St.--Fresno St. --Iona--Mid. Tenn.
    16-seeds Hampton--Austin P. Playin -HC/FGC--FDU/Southern

  • nmbeachblast53 Mar 13, 2016
    Towel Boy

    still working
    9 seeds --St josephs--Sou.Cal--Ore. St. --St. Bonaventure
    10seeds-VCU---Pitt---Gonzaga---Conn.--
    11 seeds-- Cincinati--Yale- Playin games South Caroina/S.Diego St.--Temple/Monmouth
    12 seeds -N. Iowa --Buffaloe--- South Dak.St.---Ark LR

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 13, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    View quoted thread


    agree on VT maybe next year-Bilas is almost like ESPN's version of David Glenn-very arrogant, no opinion matters more than his, if you disagree you are so wrong-I may be aging myself but Jim Thacker was one of the best Play-Play guys around- some of the ones now are not bad-Debbie Antonelli not sure if I spell her name right should move up on the ACC network, she gives you straight facts and doesn't put to much spin maybe the acc net should maybe move her up in the booth, I would like her better Doris Burke.

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 13, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    If Kentucky loses I think Duke moves to #4 Kentucky drops #6 and I agree on Seton Hall watch them last night they move to a #5, think UNC and Va. play in Raleigh then Va will go west-Duke go to the south-trying to set pairing and regions, you don't know they will do it-Duke -Maryland and Kentucky in the same region would be interesting,

  • nmbeachblast53 Mar 13, 2016
    Towel Boy

    when you have a lot of free time -you do useless things
    my bracketology
    1-seeds--Kansas--Virginia--UNC--Mich St.
    2-seeds--Oklahoma --Oregon---Villanova--Xavier
    3-seeds --Indiana--Miami--Utah --Texas A&M
    4-seeds--Maryland--Kentucky--Purdue --West Va.
    5-seeds--California --Duke--Arizona--Iowa St. 6-seeds--Baylor--Dayton--Seton Hall--Notre Dame 7-seeds--Texas Tech--Wisconsin --Iowa--Texas 8-seeds--Providence-Colorado --Butler--Wich. St. still working on 9-thru 16--Seton Hall to me is a dark-horse -Mich St. backed into a number 1 by others losing-the weakest #1 is Mich. St. but Izzo has been known put a little magic dust on his team during NCAA's

  • StunGunn Mar 13, 2016
    Sports Legend

    View quoted thread


    The color analysts were yapping through all the games and I found it very annoying and distracting. Bilas and Shulman were just as bad as G-Man and Brandt. Background info is interesting, but not what I want to hear when a foul is called, and they're not even talking about the foul - they're talking about their hair (or lack thereof, etc.)

    During the Carolina/ND game, they weren't even talking about the game.

    I think VT may make the Tourney as soon as next year. Buzz is a nut, but he can coach. VT has improved a lot from last year!

  • Maxwell Silver III Mar 13, 2016
    Bench Warmer

    Gaudio comes across as arrogant, really don't care for him, Is Seth greenberg auditioning for another gig, pretty sure if you ask him about Va. Tech it wasn't his fault. Looks like Buzz Williams is taking them to the next level(the level Seth couldn't get to) believe they will make NCAA's in couple of years.
    Does anyone remember the North/South Double header in Charlotte-NCSU-UNC vs Clemson and South Carolina- wish Pack and UNC would start up that again NCSU/UNC against maybe Georgia/Florida and switch the next night. Just my 2 cents.

Oldest First
Listen & Watch
MLBNBANHLGolfNASCAR
Teams Score Time
Interleague
Mets   6:10pm
Guardians  
Twins   6:45pm
Nationals  
Orioles   7:45pm
Cardinals  
American League
White Sox 1 3rd
Blue Jays 2
Red Sox   6:50pm
Rays  
Mariners   7:05pm
Yankees  
Tigers   7:40pm
Royals  
Angels   8:10pm
Astros  
National League
Padres 6 F
Braves 5
Padres   6:20pm
Braves  
Brewers   6:40pm
Marlins  
Diamondbacks   10:10pm
Dodgers  
Teams Score Time
Mavericks   NotNecessary
Thunder  
Teams Score Time
Oilers   9:00pm
Canucks  
PGA Championship
Pos Name Score Thru
1 Xander Schauffele -21 F
2 Bryson DeChambeau -20 F
3 Viktor Hovland -18 F
4 Thomas Detry -15 F
4 Collin Morikawa -15 F
6 Shane Lowry -14 F
6 Justin Rose -14 F
8 Billy Horschel -13 F
8 Robert MacIntyre -13 F
NASCAR All-Star Race
Pos # Name Start Pos
1 22 Joey Logano 1
2 11 Denny Hamlin 11
3 17 Chris Buescher 5
4 5 Kyle Larson 12
5 12 Ryan Blaney 17
6 23 Darrell Wallace Jr 19
7 1 Ross Chastain 7
8 9 Chase Elliott 15
9 34 Michael McDowell 9
Crown Royal Purple Bag Project 200
Pos # Name Start Pos
1 7 Justin Allgaier 7
2 21 Austin Hill 5
3 00 Cole Custer 1
4 1 Sam Mayer 6
5 20 Aric Almirola 18
6 48 Parker Kligerman 11
7 98 Riley Herbst 9
8 2 Jesse Love 12
9 18 Sheldon Creed 3
Wright Brand 250
Pos # Name Start Pos
1 51 Corey Heim 12
2 9 Grant Enfinger 9
3 Layne Riggs 23
4 Brenden Queen 26
5 Sammy Smith 31
6 98 Christian Eckes 1
7 2 Nicholas Sanchez 2
8 26 Tyler Ankrum 21
9 Daniel Dye 18
Our Take
Extra Effort