NC State couldn’t have picked a better night to fire-up the Wolfpack faithful in Carter-Finley Stadium after Sports Illustrated‘s Andy Staples made some misplaced remarks regarding our home atmosphere last week. You can click here to read about it. So, let’s keep the national attention rolling by supporting everyone’s new favorite fan in this poll. […]
NC STATE BASKETBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) N.C. State wants great season, not just great finish With four starters back from last season’s team, optimism and expectations for this season, Gottfried’s second, are in rarefied air. When the conference media meets next Wednesday in Charlotte, there’s a chance – as Sports Illustrated and ESPN already have […]
NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Five key plays ignited N.C. State’s upset of No. 3 FSU The celebratory music blaring in Carter-Finley Stadium late Saturday night drowned out what N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien was trying to tell the ESPN2 audience after the Wolfpack’s upset of third-ranked Florida State. The words to the song […]
NCSU 17 – #3 FSU 16 NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) State of Euphoria So much for Florida State’s national title hopes. The third-ranked Seminoles couldn’t even make it out of the ACC. N.C. State, in an improbable turnaround from a numbing loss to Miami, knocked off the Seminoles, 17-16, at Carter-Finley Stadium on […]
NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Pack without 3 starting offensive linemen against No. 3 FSU N.C. State will face Florida State’s top-rated defense without three starting offensive linemen, including guard Zach Allen, who is out for the rest of the season with a foot injury. Allen, who started the first five games at right […]
It looks like the Atlantic Coast Conference has ultimately ‘saved’ the tradition of NC State and UNC-CHeats playing an annual home-and-home basketball series. Teams will play two “primary partners” in an 18-game schedule. The two partners will play home & away annually; and the other 14 games are home & away games with 2 rotating […]
NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Pack emerges from players-only meeting confident, together Quarterback Mike Glennon and linebacker Sterling Lucas, the team captains, led the meeting, which in the words of senior safety Earl Wolff, boiled down to one question. “We’re just trying to get everybody on the same page and make sure everybody is […]
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NC STATE ATHLETICS GoPack.com Wolfpack Volleyball Keeps Rolling, Tops Clemson 3-1 Third-year NC State volleyball coach Bryan Bunn recorded the 400th victory as a head coach and the Wolfpack concluded its 13-match homestand by winning its 10th consecutive contest on Saturday, beating Clemson 3-1 at Reynolds Coliseum. Junior middle blocker Brie Merriwether had a career-high […]
Paul Johnson and his tenure at Georgia Tech will always be loosely connected to NC State and Tom O’Brien. In December of 2006 when O’Brien was ultimately hired at NC State, it was generally believed that Johnson was the primary “other candidate” for the job. Since NC State made the decision to go with the […]
