ESPN article Senior Bowl Website The January 24th Under Armour Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala have invited NC State players Andre Brown and Ant Hill to be on the game roster, according to ESPN’s Heather Dinich. Wolfpack fans may remember that playing in the game after his senior year really helped out Philip Rivers. In […]
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Condolences to Frank Weedon and His Family
Longtime NC State Sports Information Director Frank Weedon has lost his wife Janice recently after she fought a long battle with cancer. From all of us in the Wolfpack sports family and Statefans Nation, we’d like to extend our condolences and regret at your loss, Mr. Weedon.
Quick reference Pack players in the NFL
While the holidays are in full effect, we thought we’d point you to this excellent reference page that lists NC State alums’ in the NFL: Pro Football Reference: NC State I especially found references to the old-school players whose names are on Carter-Finley Stadium’s Ring of Honor fun to look at. For example: Dick Christy […]
Mario Williams Loves Wearing Red
For one home game each year the NFL’s Houston Texans’ deviate from their primary uniform colors of blue and white to wear special ‘Battle Red’ jerseys. In Houston, the game is looked upon with excitement as something different and, in most years, it seems the struggling Texans’ franchise rises to the occassion and submits one […]
The return of K-Rob
As stated in an earlier post, NC State may choose to under-promote our alums currently making major contributions in the National Football League, but we will do our best not to ignore their contributions. Koren Robinson was re-signed this year by Seattle after a string of injuries to its receiving corps that was, well, NC […]
Game Thread: State Opens Against New Orleans In Hoops
Here’s a free audio link of the UNO play-by-play, and the game is on Pack Pass as well. FINAL SCORE: NCSU 65 New Orleans 59 Note: be sure to scroll to the bottom to see ESPN’s scoreboard. HT: MillerHighLife on PackPride. 0:14.1 64-59 Gonzalez to the line for two. First shot: good. Second shot: no […]
J-Co’s amazing one handed – or one headed? – catch
NC State may choose to under-promote our alums currently making major contributions in the National Football League, but we will do our best not to ignore their contributions. Jerricho Cotchery has proven that he is good for at least three or four bigtime highlights each year, and last night’s catch on national television against the […]
Hauschka Scores First NFL Points
The good news keeps coming. Steven Hauschka has been kicking off for the Ravens the past few weeks. Apparently, he’s also their long FG man, having nailed a 54-yarder in the first half of the Ravens/Texans game. Our hearty congrats to the first-class Hauschka family!
Wolfpack Alum Taking National Stage
NC State graduate Robert Gibbs will be President-elect Barack Obama’s first White House press secretary. To my knowledge, he will be the first Wolfpacker to hold this position. In other political news, the Associated Press has called North Carolina for Barack Obama. That means a great deal to me personally.
JJ Hickson provides ESPN’s #1 play of Thursday night
JJ Hickson’s monster dunk viewable in the highlights at this link was ESPN Sportscenter’s top play of last night. NC State did not get a mention during the Sportscenter broadcast that I saw but we are mentioned in the highlight reel linked above. This serves as a pretty good follow-up to this entry from Wednesday.
