We can’t follow every NC State alumnus playing football in the NFL (especially since the number of Wolfpackers in the NFL continues to grow and grow and grow). Additionally, we can’t focus an inordinate amount of attention on Philip Rivers has he gets ready to take the reigns of the San Diego Chargers. But, we […]
Would Herb have left NC State THIS month?
Playing the “what-if” game can sometimes be dangerous, but we’re a blog…so, why not play what-if sometimes? SFN ran across a story today that made us ask “what-if?” in regards to Herb Sendek and his tenure at NC State. Nebraska’s Head Basketball Coach, Barry Collier, has accepted the Athletics Directorship position at his alma mater, […]
UNC-G Visits State on Jan 2nd
Last week we detailed what we knew regarding NC State’s 2006-2007 Men’s Basketball schedule in an etnry that got a lot of attention. (Link) Today, we have confirmation that UNC-Greensboro will visit NC State on January 2nd.
PR, Fleet of Foot?
Quick Media Follow-up
Man there is a TON of ‘stuff’ out there on the internet to share. SFN is definitely going to be challenged over the next month (pre-football) to pick and choose what to share and what to ingore. Real quick…on the day that we decided to kick-start college football television viewing discussions, we’ve run across a […]
$neaker Wars
We are going to unveil a new category for organizational purposes here on the blog. On the right hand side of the blog you will see the categories that we use to tag entries when we post them to the blog. Today we are going to start using “Sports Junkies” tags. We obviously try to […]
SFN: What A Year (thusfar)!!!
Excerpt: “In the first seven months of the year, SFN has attracted almost 150,000 different visitors from around the world, generating just under 8 million hits and 2.5 million different page views of unique SFN material. We couldn’t be more proud of the breadth and depth of our growing reach considering that we are just […]
Cowher TV Feature
Bill Cowher is being featured on “Aaron’s Football Saturdays in the South” that is running in syndication on local channels throughout the south this weekend. (Link) The show is produced by “Lincoln Financial Sports” which is the old Jefferson-Pilot Sports. (Lincoln Financial Group bought Greensboro-based Jefferson-Pilot months ago). Super Bowl Champ Bill Cowher, NC State […]
NFL Notes: Mario, Manny, McCargo & More
Give The News & Observer some credit for doing a good job of following the Wolfpack’s “6 Pack” of draftees. The N&O ran this summary of 2006 Wolfpack football alums as NFL training camps are opening. Mario Williams earned rave reviews in Houston during his first NFL practice. (Link) The Houston Texans’ No. 1 draft […]
Recruits Dropping at Local Programs
Earlier in the week, Chris Culliver, NC State’s top 2007 football (not so) ‘committment’ finally officially withdrew his word-isn’t-really-his-bond this week. At least we weren’t the only ones. The focus this afternoon will most certainly be on Carolina losing their #1 football recruit from last year. (Link) But, he’s now the only former recruit with […]
