Today at 3 pm in Chapel Hill, UNC and NC State will faceoff in a crucial match. NC State needs this win to help solidify an NCAA tournament bid. We have won four straight ACC matches, but unfortunately we still have the toughest stretch of our schedule ahead. We face what might be the five […]
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Congratulations Eagles! Ouch Wolfpack!
StateFansNation would like to shout out a congratulations to our conference bretheren in Chestnut Hill as the Boston College Eagles have advanced to their third consecutive Frozen Four, hockey’s version of Final Four’. Although many in the north – including a lot of the BC students – are more interested in hockey than basketball, I […]
YOU Write the Story – How did UCLA and UNC-CH do it?
As many of you already experience and recognize, we feel this blog has some of the most insightful readers and commentors of any fan blog on the internet. It is a regular experience to read an entry on our blog and learn a lot more from the resulting conversation in the comments section than you […]
Wolfpack defeat Tarheels on the diamond
We had in depth comments in yesterday’s entry…so, we needed to stay on top of baseball. State comes from behind in the diamond to beat Carolina in something! Wolfpack 8 Tarheels 6 The Wolfpack, which improved to 15-9 overall and 5-6 in the ACC, carried a 2-2 tie into the bottom of the sixth inning, […]
Saturday Bytes – Tarheels defeat Wolfpack (sound familiar?) OR State’s/Davidson irony (Updated 2pm)
……crunch….. Carolina’s third ranked baseball team beat the Wolfpack 5-2 yesterday (I thought we had some new authors who were excited about covering baseball on SFN? hello? anyone out there?). The Tar heels are 21-4 overall and 8-2 in the ACC. After a one-hit loss to Marshall, the Wolfpack are tracking just perfectly to an […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
Ya’ll know this is all our fault – mine and yours – right? It’s simple, really. There is a profound dichotomy to the average State fan, a great paradox that makes each of us our own worst enemy: we are intensely loyal…to a fault. As long as we continue to feed this monster, improvement won’t […]
World’s most shocking award
Lee Fowler is garnering media attention….again. Can you believe it? I guess this is the appropriate spot where we will add one of the dozens of links that we could add on the topic of Lee Fowler’s name being in lights! This time the News and Observer showers him with praise for his availableness and […]
Chancellor statusquOBLINGER Tabs Fowler with Award for Excellence
“This is the adult equivalent of when ALL the kids got a ribbon in PE” — Friend of SFN We do not want to take away from the important entry below, but we wanted to chronicle this dumbfounding news as reported at gopack.com. Maybe it isn’t so dumbfounding, afterall. Lee Fowler would represent EXACTLY what […]
Fowler’s Failures Manifests into a Pearl of a Jewel
Sit back and get dedicated for a moment. You can’t skim this entry. You can’t loaf through this one. This is one of those to which your mind must be committed to absorbing and investing the time to read the links and the text. In the early part of this decade our blog followed some […]
Wyrick moving up and strengthening his resume
NC State alum and former Wolfpack Club employee, Chris Wyrick, is on the move. In light of the diversity of experiences and connections to Raleigh, Wyrick – along with App State’s Charlie Cobb – would most definitely be leading candidates for the NC State Athletics Directorship if we would ever be so lucky as to […]