While you get ready for today’s basketball action, here something for you to consider: A Little March Madness Can Be Good For The Workplace Along with all of this media coverage, come all of the reports of how much March Madness will cost the economy in terms of lost productivity. Distracted by office pools, tournament […]
Sports Junkies
RIP Skip Caray
Many of us grew-up listening to Skip Caray and following the Atlanta Braves from baseball’s worst franchise in the late 70s and 1980s into one of baseball’s best franchises since 1990. The voice of our generation passed away in his sleep. This post does an excellent job of highlighting various stories on the internet that […]
WRAL/TWC to Show All NCAAT Games in HD
I’m looking forward to being glued to my couch from after my business lunch on Thursday until Sunday night. Cable companies may very well be evil, but they just bought a whole hell of alot of goodwill with me! The new wrinkle this year is running all 4 HD feeds at concurrently – no more […]
SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted […]
Rivalry Week – An Opponent’s Perspective
Earlier, this year, I asked a friend of mine to write a guest post outlining his perspective of the State/Carolina rivalry. Some background – he is an avid ACC historian and trivia king (rivals our own noah on those fronts), a “friend of the blog,” and the only “football first” UNC fan that I have […]
Remember the 80s – A Golden Era of ACC Basketball
I was chatting with a UNC fan colleague yesterday, who is also a world-class ACC historian (could have a great conversation with SFN commenter noah). He has an extensive game collection, and recently acquired tape of the first State/Carolina matchup in 1984. You may remember that as the year the Wolfpack opened with a repeat […]
MLB Team Values
An interesting diversion for you. (Link) The link to the “Heavy Lifting” blog has some very detailed information for sports junkies.
Recruiting’s dirty game / NCS + TOB + CTC Comments (Updated 11:20am)
With the Spring Football game approaching this weekend and with NC State’s football recruiting evolving into a very different dynamic under Tom O’Brien than we had under Chuck Amato, we thought that we would share some interesting insight from a former college football coach. (Tip of the hat to Dave Sez for linking this up […]
College Football Recruiting Map
We’re spending a little time on football tonight, so it is a good time to highlight a really, really neat website that we ran across a couple of weeks ago when football recruiting was hot. Amongst a lot of other things, this hotlink to “MapGameDay.com” maps the geographical location of every high school commitment throughout […]
SFN Garners #2
StateFansNation experienced quite a year of growth and popularity in 2006. Included in our growth was a significant amount of public recognition, most recently evidenced by our #2 finish in the ACC category in the College Football Bloggers Awards. Link to story State Fans Nation is one of the most vibrant, interactive communities on the […]
