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Something, or rather, someone, is missing from this list. The N&O's Caulton Tudor writes about the ACC football coaches on the hot seat this coming season. He gets most of them, but where the heck is Al Groh?

The NCAA is cracking down on high schools which it thinks simply churn out high school diplomas to get athletes into colleges. A couple of Virginia schools are on the watch list and a North Carolina high school is stunned that it is on the NCAA's list of schools from which transcripts won't be accepted. Friend of the Nation Josh Centor over at the Double-A Zone gives his thoughts on the NCAA's actions.

Virginia has a replacement for Gene Cross on its basketball staff.

We missed this a couple of days ago, but Raleigh will be the site of a women's NCAA regional in 2009.

The search for a Duke men's lacrosse coach has been reduced to four.

Finally, Clemson reported that seven of its athletes failed drug tests this past year. All seven were for marijuana.

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