60 If you thought the ACC was bad last year, or the year before, or the year before ... brace yourself for 2008. The league could be even worse, if that's possible. www.newsobserver.com/1065795 When the ACC spring meetings begin Sunday at Amelia Island, Fla., discussions of expanded conference scheduling will not be limited to men's basketball. www.newsobserver.com/1065645 Athlon Sports, the folks who publish sports preview publications, tapped Wake Forest as the No. 24 team in the nation for its ongoing college football preseason countdown on Friday. www.newsobserver.com/1058462 On a perfect afternoon for golf last week, Wake Forest's Webb Simpson wasn't on the course, the practice green or the driving range. www.newsobserver.com/1053702 Duke and UNC are well-represented on the list. www.newsobserver.com/1049328 While the first weekend of NBA playoff games had several standout performances, the combined output of ex-Deacons Tim Duncan for San Antonio and Chris Paul for New Orleans was sensational. www.newsobserver.com/1045540 Wake Forest senior Webb Simpson set a three-round tournament record in winning his first ACC men's individual golf championship on Sunday. www.newsobserver.com/1044344 Quarterbacks excel in scrimmage. www.newsobserver.com/1043475 North Carolina will play Michigan at Detroit’s Ford Field and Duke will play at Purdue in next season’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge. But as expected, N.C. State will be left out of the made-for-TV event for the first time because it finished last in league play. www.newsobserver.com/1037974 Wake Forest golfer Webb Simpson, a Raleigh native, fired a 5-under-par 67 on Friday and is tied for the individual lead with North Carolina's Kevin O'Connell after the first round of the River Landing Intercollegiate in Wallace. www.newsobserver.com/1034378 True star power can galvanize a community. And that's exactly what Chris Paul has done this season, putting the Hornets in contention to finish first in the Western Conference. www.newsobserver.com/1034332 Ben McCauley's follow slam of Gavin Grant's missed shot, with barely one-tenth of a second left, gave the Wolfpack a 67-65 victory over the Demon Deacons at the RBC Center. www.newsobserver.com/921290 The Deacons got to, and won, the league championship last season by finishing 6-2 in the balanced Atlantic. They have enough parts in place to chart the same path again. www.newsobserver.com/664928