What year is it? I just tagged this entry with “Chuck Amato” and “Norm Chow”! Don’t know if you’ve been able to follow some of the news over the holiday week that also included the bowl game, but there have been some interesting developments in the world of college football recently. =====> Over at […]
College Football
SFN Bids Everett Withers a Fond Adieu
It would be hard to write a more fitting denounement – a half-hearted effort leads to the Holes getting taken behind the woodshed for some sweet, sweet Shreveport schadenfreude. A garbage time TD cut the final margin to 41-24 – but it was never in doubt after the first quarter. Missouri is hardly a football […]
Ohio State penalties don’t bode well for ACC’s Hurricanes & Heels
First…before you do anything, you really must read the following entries. NCAA Football Scandals Penalty Analysis NCAA Football Scandals Penalty Analysis, Part II Ohio State received a one year bowl ban yesterday that has a lot of college football analysts peering into their crystal balls and wondering aloud if a period of stringent NCAA penalties […]
Gameday Headlines
December 17, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) Wolfpack has a realistic shot at knocking off No. 1 Having the nation’s top team come to town is a big deal, to be sure. But it’s not like a sighting of Halley’s Comet, something that happens only once or twice in a lifetime. Saturday’s game […]
Friday Farrago
December 16, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL GoPack.com Pack Hosts Top-Ranked Syracuse On Saturday For the first time since 1979, NC State will host a top-ranked non-conference foe when it plays Syracuse on Saturday at a sold out RBC Center. Game time is 6:30 and set for broadcast on ESPN2 with Jon Sciambi describing the action […]
Friday Farrago
December 9, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL News and Observer Amerson is All-America N.C. State sophomore cornerback David Amerson has been named to the 2011 Walter Camp All-America first team. The team was recognized Thursday at the Home Depot/ESPN College Football Awards Show in Orlando, where Amerson is also a candidate for the Thorpe Award. Earlier […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
December 7, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL GoPack.com Football Goes Shopping for Toys for Tots Ten Wolfpack Football players took a break from studying for finals on Monday to help children throughout the Triangle by shopping for toys for the US Marines Toys for Tots program. Throughout the 2011 season, Coca-Cola donated $500 for each touchdown […]
Dancing with the BCS
When you woke up on Sunday, did you really think that Oklahoma State was going to be playing for the national championship? (Link to a related conversation on our message forums) While I hate to admit this, I can’t stop thinking about how much the BCS system reminds me of Dancing With the Stars (please […]
Tuesday Tidbits
December 6, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL CHIP ALEXANDER (N&O) No rest for bowl bound Pack It was just before noon on Thanksgiving Day when N.C. State football coach Tom O’Brien was spotted jogging near Carter-Finley Stadium. Told that it was a holiday, that he should be home eating turkey, O’Brien smiled and replied, “It’s a […]
Monday Musings
December 5, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL JP GIGLIO (N&O) Pack loses lead, game With each trip to the foul line by Stanford, Lorenzo Brown could feel N.C. State unraveling. By the end of the free-throw parade on Sunday at Maples Pavilion, there was nothing left of the Wolfpack after a 76-72 road loss to the […]
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