August 29, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 5 DAYS!!! Bob Sutton (ACCSports.com) Countdown To Kickoff: N.C. State Sammy Baton (Fayetteville Observer) N.C. State’s Mike Glennon ready for Pack spotlight Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com) Niklas Sade relished chance to kick right away Some freshmen may shy away from jumping right into the pressures of major […]
ACC Teams
Friday Farrago
August 26, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 8 DAYS!!! Chip Alexander (N&O) Pack’s Overgaard leads team in GPA N.C. State’s Mikel Overgaard doesn’t have the fastest 40-yard dash time on the Wolfpack football team. He doesn’t lead the Pack in the bench press or any other weight-room category. What Overgaard does have is […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
August 24, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 10 DAYS Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com) Tuesday Practice Report: O’Brien talks Sweezy injury NC State had its fourth and final preseason scrimmage last Sunday, and the focus of the work was to get a long look at the young players, particularly the true freshmen. “We gave a […]
Tuesday Tidbits
August 23, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 11 DAYS Akula Wolf (BackingthePack.com) Welcome To The Forefront During Rivers’ senior year State averaged 6.6 yards per play, chewed up defenses and spit them out without mercy–that was a hell of a storm, and a hell of a thing to match. Glennon’s task isn’t nearly […]
Miami: “Willful violators?” (Updated 8:15pm)
There’s enough to this story for ESPN to make “The U: Part II” (with multiple episodes, as my buddy Shawn added). Yahoo!: The NCAA informed University of Miami administrators it will consider invoking its “willful violators†clause and make an exception to the traditional four-year statute of limitations in the Nevin Shapiro case, a university […]
Friday Farrago
August 19, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL CHIP ALEXANDER (N&O) Pack’s Kuhn, Sweezy worlds apart Most know of Kuhn’s unusual story, of how he and his father, Wolfgang, came to the U.S. from Germany in 2006, visiting colleges, looking for a place to play. Kuhn didn’t have a recruiting resume. He had size and a DVD […]
Yahoo! exposes The U, Administrative Hypocrisy
If the NCAA truly wants to enact change, then it should hire Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson. For those not keeping up, Yahoo! — and more precisely, Charles Robinson, and to some extent, Dan Wetzel — has become the lead on about every college football scandal since USC-Reggie Bush. Yahoo! has fully emerged as a […]
The U Thursday WebRun (UPDATED 1:30PM)
CAULTON TUDOR (N&O) Miami could become dead ACC weight At a time when UNC’s football program is in the NCAA’s on-deck circle and various other conference programs have been sanctioned, the potential mushroom cloud in Miami will be as bad for business as imaging. The whole idea of bringing aboard Miami in 2004 was to […]
The U Wednesday Webrun
Money, bounties, cars, yachts, jewelry, TVs, meals, nightclubs, sex parties, prostitutes and even an abortion. Yeah, Miami may be in some trouble. No suspensions by Al Golden…yet (ESPN). Of course, how else can he react right now? Heather Dinich says former Miami officials have questions to answer (ESPN): And yet the only person answering questions […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
August 17, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL CHIP ALEXANDER (N&O) Wolfpack offense still lagging N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien gave out some dismal offensive statistics Tuesday after the Wolfpack’s third preseason football scrimmage. The offense had four passes intercepted and allowed seven sacks. There were 15 tackles for loss by the defense, which limited the offense […]
