Best gig imaginable for an arrested-development sports fan, commenting on our games and the people who play them.

The Daily Press has been my newspaper home since 1984 after previous stops in Fayetteville, N.C., Lynchburg, Va., and Ocean City, Md. I grew up in Baltimore, graduated from James Madison University in 1981 and still type with two fingers. My wife, Jill, is the family's most accomplished athlete and astute sports observer.

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ODU's Selig calls ECU's Holland a "strong advocate" for Monarchs' move to Conference USA 5/17/2012
Wood Selig and Terry Holland go back to the late 1980s at the University of Virginia, where Selig was a fledgling athletics administrator and Holland was a Final Four basketball coach. When Holland became the school’s athletic director in 1995, Selig reported to him.

ACC prefers champions-only playoff, adopts new basketball tournament format 5/16/2012
As promised, more from Wednesday’s interview with ACC commissioner John Swofford as the conference adjourned its annual spring meetings at Amelia Island, Fla.

Swofford says his faith in ACC's stability unshaken by Florida State-to-Big 12 rumblings 5/16/2012
Four days of meetings and a Wednesday flurry of interviews rendered John Swofford’s voice weak. But the ACC’s veteran commissioner insisted, despite speculation to the contrary, that his conference remains strong.

Strange Florida State-ACC-Big 12 saga continues as ESPN executive clears air 5/15/2012
With fans, media and an ill-informed board chairman parsing the ACC’s new media package with ESPN, a network executive chimed in Tuesday.

FSU president Barron details ACC-Big 12 issues in unusual, lively statement 5/14/2012
Twitter erupted Monday afternoon when Florida State president Eric Barron, in a statement regarding the Seminoles’ conference affiliation, called the Big 12 “academically weaker” than the ACC.