Now that Drew Brees is in New Orleans, Philip Rivers will be taking the reigns as the starting quarterback for the San Diego Chargers. (Related link from San Diego regarding the start of the Rivers era) A new era has begun. “I always hoped it was going to be right here,�? Rivers said yesterday. “Now […]
NC State
Record # Seek Admission to State
From Triangle Business Journal and NC State press releases. “More students than ever before have applied to be freshmen at North Carolina State University. NCSU received 15,236 applications seeking freshman admission this fall. The record number of applicants represents a 10.7 percent increase over the 13,762 students who applied for admission at NCSU a year […]
Clarifying the PC Criticism
On the Thursday that it became known that Sidney Lowe was going to be announced as NC State’s Head Basketball Coach, we ran this piece highlighting and discussing the news and updates. In that piece we criticized the decision to introduce Coach Lowe at a Saturday evening press conference because of the lack of impact […]
Delong’s Delights
Just after Sidney Lowe was hired, John Delong of the Winston-Salem Journal wrote an outstanding piece that we never chronicled here and wanted to take a couple of minutes to get it on the site. Good Call: In Lowe, State gets what it needs … a State guy . This piece was fantastic. It was […]
NC State Softball Wins ACC Title
See details here. The Wolfpack won the regular season title and the ACC Championship title in its third season as a program and received the ACC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The No. 2-seeded Wolfpack will face No. 3 seed UL-Lafayette on Friday, May 19 in Baton Rouge, La. The LSU Tigers host and […]
Lee Fowler SINGS!
SFN’s been told that at a recent Wolfpack Club meeting NC State Athletic Director Lee Fowler expressed some less than happy thoughts about the Internet. Fowler, it seems, thinks only the less thoughtful fan turns to the Internet (including presumably SFN) for news. All this, for some reason, made me think of Fowler (in the […]
Philip Rivers Video
Not that good.
May 6, 2006 – We Were There
Who knows whether it will be a meaningful anecdote 10, 20, 30 years later. But indeed, I was there, one of the 1,000 or so souls (including fellow SFN bloggers Cardiff Giant and Beowolf, along with 2 of our combined 3 wives/fiancees, and 4 of our 6 combined progeny) crouched on the concrete bleachers surrounding […]
She’s Going….Going…..Gone!
For those that don’t know me or haven’t read any of my entries here…..I’ll let you in on a little secret: I have been called an opinionated SOB on more than one occasion…and I have never been called bashful. I have never met Bob Lee Swagger, but suspect that we have shared some of these […]
NC State to Hire Sidney Lowe (6:45 pm – Towe to join staff?)
Chip Alexander and Caulton Tudor of the News & Observer broke the story today that NC State will hire alumnus and former Wolfpack point guard, Sidney Lowe as the program’s Head Basketball Coach. N.C. State is set to hire Detroit Pistons assistant coach Sidney Lowe as its new head basketball coach, sources with knowledge of […]
