The mothership is proud to announce our SB Nation iPhone app, now available in the App Store. It's free, it has everything from the site, and it's so incredible Steve Jobs retired upon seeing it, having achieved everything he could possibly want with iOS.

Now you can stay on top of all the latest news and commentary for Carolina March and all 300+ SB Nation blogs from your iPhone. With the SB Nation iPhone app you can:

• Get the latest, breaking sports news as it happens.
• Customize your news with your favorite teams, sports and blogs. And your favorite blog is this one. You cannot live with out this blog. Look slowly into the app and say it with me.
• Get notified of updates to the stories you choose to follow on SBNation.com, regional sites, Baseball Nation, and MMA Nation.
• Read and reply to comments.

Get it by going here and clicking "Download Now" or head to the App Store and search for "SB Nation." And that question you're dying to ask? Let me go ahead and give you the answer:

1. An Android version of the app is coming soon. Hopefully by the end of the year.
2. The app is free. I already said that. You never listen like you did when you first started reading me.
3. Comments are basic read-and-reply, but SB Nation has plans to enhance them in future updates.
4. You can use your existing SB Nation user name and password to log in to the app.
5. UNC is definitely not going to hire that awesome new coach you want unless you download this.

Any questions, feedback, comments? E-mail support@sbnation.com.

You may have noticed the rash of logos at the bottom of every post that started appearing a few months ago, all devoted to social media and the Web 2.0 and everything else that occasionally distracts journalists from the dying newspaper business. (Be lucky you don't live in D.C., home of the fifteen front page stories about Facebook.) About the time those popped up, SB Nation made a big push to get all of their bloggers on Twitter, with contests to see who could get the most followers, and general brave leap into yet another online medium.

I stayed as far away from that as possible.

Once the hoopla died down however, I did poke around Twitter for a bit, as the software guys have done some nifty incorporation between it and the blogging platform; I grabbed an account, followed some people, and tried to figure out what I wanted to do with it.

I still don't know what I want to do with it, but I quickly decided I didn't want it to be a glorified RSS feed, which are particularly boring. Nor did I want to trade tweets with Marcus Ginyard, who hopefully has better things to do with his time. I did find some people worth following though, and began tossing the occasional thing up there. With this being UNC's off week in football and thus this Saturday being open thread free, I thought I put it out to the world at large: I have a twitter feed. Consider it a DVD commentary on blogging, or don't consider it anything at all. Nevertheless, it's there.

And yeah, this whole post is an excuse to run that image at the top, which is probably my finest artistic accomplishment.

Jameel Sewell isn't the only one leaving the Carolina football team in the dust; I'm missing the thrilling duel with Georgia Southern for a long Columbus Day weekend in an undisclosed midwestern location. Originally, it was going to be Ames, Iowa, but all the flights there are mysteriously booked. So I'm seeking less crowded climes, and will remain happily out of contact with the wider world until next week.

(And this is why North Carolina needs a decent football team. Because in a sane world, the travel plans of two basketball coaches in the first week in October should never, ever, be considered anything remotely resembling news.)

Back in 1998, I went to Hartford, Connecticut for the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament. UNC was the number one seed in the East that year. And one afternoon, I found myself sitting with some friends in the coliseum attached to the mall that the town strangely built, watching Antawn Jamison and Vince Carter show off in the open practice for the team. One of the locals in the row behind us struck up a conversation; it was polite at first, but once he found out we were from North Carolina he kept asking us about what we did for fun. He had a definite preconception about the state, and kept pushing it on us: "You don't really having anything going, do you?" and "But there's really nothing interesting in North Carolina is there?" Keep in mind, this was Hartford Connecticut during a huge downturn in the insurance business, and the place was a ghost town for much of the time we were there. Finally annoyed by the implications, I turned to the guy, and with an expression of faux earnestness replied, "Well, we have a hockey team now."

The guy didn't speak to us the rest of the practice.

I tell this story as a preamble to an announcement. SB Nation has brought aboard a Carolina Hurricanes blog, Canes Country. The Hurricanes never really grabbed me. I saw a game amongst the empty bleachers of Greensboro Coliseum in the first season, and had the misfortune of dating a Red Wings fan during their first trip to the Stanley Cup that pushed me towards the team, but otherwise I let it pass me by. I'm sure there's some crossover between UNC fans and Hurricane fans, though, so here's the blog.

SB Nation doesn't have a blog for the minor league and now defunct Connecticut hockey team, the Beast of New Haven, or as I always remember them, the Greensboro Monarchs. Suck it, Hartford.

The fine folks at SBNation have put together a comprehensive BCS page, complete with rankings, scoreboards and links to the blog posts on each team in the BCS Top 25. Which includes UNC, sitting pretty for the moment at sweet sixteen. So go play around and see how you like it.

This blog will be going offline around midnight tonight, so all two of you jonesing for late night arguments for college football playoffs will have to find another internet diversion for the evening. I hear this "pornography" thing is becoming quite popular.

We'll come back up tomorrow, with a shocking change that will blow your mind.

(Unless of course you've read any other SBNation blog in the last two months. In that case, well, you know what's coming. Sorry.)

Back in the new year. Talk amongst yourselves.

You may have noticed posting has been light of late. (You may have not. Frankly, you may only be reading this because a particularly perceptive housepet walked across your keyboard. But we'll assume the former.) The reason posting has been so sporadic is very simple:

I went out and defended my doctoral thesis this week.

So now I'm Dr. Still Doesn't Blog Under His Real Name. And yes, I do appreciate the irony of this occurring while the rest of the internet was calling me stupid for picking UNC over ECU and Duke over UVa. I don't care, I'm a doctor now.

But what does this mean for the blog? Two things:

1. I now win all arguments on the internet. All of them. Playoffs are good, no one cares about the Rose Bowl, and Duke sucks. You have a problem with that? Don't care. Doctor.
2. I'm leaving the friendly environs of the West Coast, and heading back east. Not back to NC, but at least within driving distance of the games. Where? Let me put it this way. Expect a lot more posting about Brendan Haywood.