For NC State baseball, it was more of the same: NCAA berth, no moving on to the College World Series. Despite taking out regional host (and national #3 seed) Texas, Stanford drubbed the Pack twice, by a combined 24-9 mark. IIRC, NC State has made just one super-regional since that new format was instituted (prior […]
Excuse My Rant – NC State/UT Series “Shelved”
In an article containing the hopeful nugget that NC State and USC may resume their storied rivalry, The State reports this oft-rumored terrible news: If the two-year deal is finalized, the Wolfpack would visit Williams-Brice Stadium in 2008, with USC traveling to Raleigh in ‘09. Vaughn said N.C. State is looking to fill a couple […]
Isiah Thomas: No Exit Strategy For Knicks
A few days ago, SFN discussed the merits of championship winning coach and ramblin’ man Larry Brown. Clearly, his 2005-06 with the New York Knicks was a fiasco. But Onion Sports reminds us where the blame should truly lie, as only they can.
Intersting Tidbits From the ACC Sports Blogosphere
First, the always informative Dave Glenn continues his “information dump” regarding the NC State coaching search. Kudos to him for acknowledging the “lunatic fringe” capabilities of some pro-Sendek coaching colleagues. Second, Dave Sez (always very solid, especially with respect to ACC basketball) makes a compelling argument about not fixing something that isn’t broken (i.e., the […]
Kudos for ACC Football
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The ACC had its best overall television numbers ever in 2005. According to a summary released by the league, it was the top-rated conference on ESPN. The ACC, in fact, had three of ESPN’s top five regular-season games. The Florida State-Miami game on Labor Day night was ABC’s highest-rated regular-season game […]
NC State Softball Wins ACC Title
See details here. The Wolfpack won the regular season title and the ACC Championship title in its third season as a program and received the ACC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The No. 2-seeded Wolfpack will face No. 3 seed UL-Lafayette on Friday, May 19 in Baton Rouge, La. The LSU Tigers host and […]
Basketball Scheduling
Yesterday’s News and Observer article focused primarily on recruiting and the uncertain situation of incoming freshmen Davis, Werner, and Horner. My general take on this is that things will work out (perhaps with some attrition), but that it is nothing to obsess over. Just an inevitable part of a coaching change. However, towards the end […]
Tuesday Open Thread
* We are hearing that Lowe’s final staff will indeed be Larry Harris, Monte Towe, and Pete Strickland. You might remember that you read all three names on SFN on the same day the Lowe news broke (Thursday, May 4). All in all, we think this a very solid staff. * You won’t see this […]
May 6, 2006 – We Were There
Who knows whether it will be a meaningful anecdote 10, 20, 30 years later. But indeed, I was there, one of the 1,000 or so souls (including fellow SFN bloggers Cardiff Giant and Beowolf, along with 2 of our combined 3 wives/fiancees, and 4 of our 6 combined progeny) crouched on the concrete bleachers surrounding […]
Lee Fowler’s Present Situation
Just a few quick thoughts on Lee Fowler (keep the comments in the “open thread”). It seems to me that Fowler is in a bit of a quandary at this point in the search. He has gone so far out on a limb to make a “name” hire that I’m not sure he can back […]
