Say What? No Room for NC State Coverage? Saturday’s News & Observer told the world that basketball is back in style at Duke. At Carolina, Roy Williams relishes the role as the favorite. But, Sunday’s News and Observer somehow found room in today’s sports pages for an article about former UNC-CH quarterback Darian Durant’s play […]
Terry Bowden Says Brother ‘Deserved’ Firing
There’s nothing quite like throwing your brother under the bus in the media to make the family Thanksgiving dinner a lot more interesting: AJC: Brother Deserved Firing “He deserved it because he, of all people, knew what to expect when he got into this business,†Terry Bowden wrote in his weekly Yahoo.com comments. “Clemson expects […]
Hmmm, Maybe The Power-That-Be Do Listen To Blogs
On May 14th of this year, over at my old site, Red and White From State, I made an entry that suggested something I thought that would look really neat at a home game: Something Cool That NC State Should Do At Home Games Most of us have all see the flipcards that make graphic […]
Two Very Good Reasons To Attend Saturday’s Open Hoops Practice
Derrick Favors To Visit Saturday, Attend Open Practice Coming up this weekend is a trip to N.C. State, which Favors said he’s looking forward to meeting John Wall, a 6-4, 175-pound guard out of Raleigh (N.C.) Word of God Academy (left) and the top recruit in the nation according to Rivals, said he wants to […]
I Hope That This Is On The Wolfpack Bulletin Board
 Tomahawk Nation’s rather unflattering prediction Florida State will stifle NC State’s offense. Wilson will get a few decent scrambles as we lose contain , and maybe a big pass or two. For the most part, though, we will force them into negative and low percentage plays, while constantly hitting the untalented NC State players. Everette […]
Basketball Potpourri (Updated 10am)
Practice for the 2008-09 basketball season is just around the corner, and stories about the upcoming edition of the Wolfpack are starting to make their way into the papers and onto TV after yesterday’s media day. We’ve got a few links and comments to get the ball rolling. First, WRALSportsfan.com has a story online focusing […]
A Couple of Non-Revenue Sports Updates
We don’t focus on the non-revenue sports here at SFN, but I thought I would pass a long a couple of highlights that recently came across my email that highlight some successes by our women athletes: First of all, Golf’s Lauren Doughtie got her first tournament win: Lauren Doughtie came from behind in grand fashion […]
Site News: Chat Room Added — Please Help Test It
I’ve added a chat-room widget to the site, something that was mentioned in the site improvement post I made a couple of days ago. StateFans Nation Chat You’ll also notice that just under the logo at the top of the page is a link to the chat room. If you’d do me the kindness of […]
They Say That First You Lose By A Little: Boston College 38- NC State 31
Following an exciting fourth quarter comeback, the NC State defense wasn’t able to keep Boston College out of the end zone after the Wolfpack tied the game at 31-31 with about 3:30 left in the contest in today’s ACC matchup at Carter-Finley Stadium. That’s no surprise considering that BC had pretty much played through NC […]