Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we thought that […]
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Ain’t That A Kick In The Head?
It’s tournament time again for the ACC soccer programs. As a State fan, can you feel the excitement? Well, I guess not. And I can’t blame you. N.C. State soccer accomplished a rare double dip of pathos this season with its men’s and women’s soccer teams each being the bottom seeds, based on their conference […]
Congratulations Soccer Team!
NC State 3 (#1) UNC-CH 1 * The teams have tied in three of their past seven meetings, but N.C. State last beat UNC in 1997, also by a 3-1 score. * For the first time since 1997 State wins the conference opener. Wolfpack Stuns Top Rated Tarheels Seven of Soccer America’s top eight teams […]
Congratulations Coach Teal!
Tarboro native and lifelong Wolfpacker, Brooks Teal has been selected as one of six national finalists for the American Swimming Coaches National Coach of hte Year. (Link to GoPack announcement). Teal was instrumental in the development and training of arguably the top sprinter in the world, Cullen Jones. Jones swam for four seasons at NC […]
Cullen Jones Is Hitting the Big Time
Cullen Jones is hitting the big time. The N&O reports “signed a seven-year endorsement deal with Nike worth potentially more than $2 million, which would make him the highest-paid sprint freestyler in the world.” In 5 years Jones could easily be the most famous athlete in NC State history.
SFN: What A Year (thusfar)!!!
Excerpt: “In the first seven months of the year, SFN has attracted almost 150,000 different visitors from around the world, generating just under 8 million hits and 2.5 million different page views of unique SFN material. We couldn’t be more proud of the breadth and depth of our growing reach considering that we are just […]
Rumor Alert: Brackman To Give Up Basketball This Season
We want to be extremely cautious about positioning this without any misunderstaning. This entry is designed to share a RUMOR that SFN has NOT yet completely confirmed. But, SFN has been informed by multiple sources in the last ten days that NC State’s Andrew Brackman will forego basketball this season to focus exclusively on his […]
Q&A with Another AD
In the spirit of Lee Fowler, The Tallahassee Democrat has penned an article titled “Q&A with Dave Hart”. (Link) We (understandably) like to highlight the incessant media attention that NC State’s Athletics Director seeks (Link to one of many examples). No word yet on the rumors that Fowler is considering making the Tallahassee Democrat pay […]
Significant Baseball Development
We talk about the “other sports” sometimes…but don’t really focus on them any more or less than what the “average fan” does. But, this news about the Wolfpack baseball program looks very significant to highlight. Tom Holliday, Collegiate Baseball magazine’s 2005 pitching coach of the year, has joined the N.C. State staff as associate head […]
Baseball Ends Season Unranked
NC State’s baseball team generated an RPI amongst the top 20 teams in the country in the 2006 baseball season but failed to land in the final poll’s Top 30 rankings. The poll can be found by clicking here. The Wolfpack ended up the 7th ranked team from the ACC (which was easily the country’s […]
