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Thursday Compendium

December 1, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL JP GIGLIO (N&O) Wolfpack falters against Hoosiers N.C. State and Indiana turned the RBC Center into a time machine on Wednesday night. Both proud programs have seen their national standing usurped by in-state rivals, but the only ACC-Big Ten Challenge matchup between two teams with multiple national titles felt […]

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NC State, the Rejected Stone

So I have a personal blog called “RejectedStones” that is primarily a Christian devotional site.  On Twitter I received a few messages from Alex Johnson who has been a supporter of my site since before he arrived in Raleigh.  Naturally, this got me thinking about both my blog and our basketball team.  Something then dawned […]

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Wednesday Woolgathering

November 9, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL J.P. GIGLIO (N&O) Wolfpack’s Gottfried becomes teacher, preacher The same pejorative words and damning phrases kept coming up when Mark Gottfried asked about the N.C. State men’s basketball program he inherited. “Selfish,” “didn’t play hard,” “didn’t play together,” – this is what the Wolfpack’s new coach heard about his […]

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Friday Farrago

November 4, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL RIVALRY WEEK Akula Wolf (BackingthePack.com) Everett Withers Is Waving The Flagship Now, say what you will about the ill-considered focus on academics. Admittedly there’s just a slight tinge of irony attached to the phrase “educational environment,” what with that NCAA stuff and the tutor/nanny deal, but give Withers an […]

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NCSU vs. UNC – The past decade

As we get closer to Saturday’s game against UNC-Chapel Hill, let’s first take a step back and look back at some of the previous games in the rivalry. The rivalry stands with UNC-Chapel Hill having a 63-31-6 overall record against the Wolfpack. Now, all Wal-Mart fans will let you know that this is all that […]

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Thursday Compendium

November 3, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL RIVALRY WEEK JP GIGLIO (N&O) Withers spices Heel-Pack rivalry North Carolina interim football coach Everett Withers added some heat to Saturday’s game against N.C. State with some verbal jabs at the Wolfpack during a radio interview Wednesday. Withers, who has openly embraced the importance of the rivalry to the […]

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Thursday…the day before Friday

October 27, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) What exactly happened to Tobias Palmer on Saturday? Two questions immediately sprung to mind the moment it was announced that N.C. State wide receiver Tobias Palmer had suffered a concussion during pregame warmups at Virginia on Saturday. The first was: How does anybody suffer a concussion […]

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