LINK. Not much news, but does provide another good window into Coach O’Brien’s steady, cerebral mindset. The Dick Sheridan comparisons look more apt every day. He also says we should expect to win championships. Imagine that!
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UCLA Farks Overexposed Hopsbrough
Courtesy of The Onion The Final Four is almost here. Which means a lot of things…and this year it means that the world will have the ‘pleasure’ of watching the most amazing college basketball player in history! With Rick Morrissey leading the charge in this fantastic article, we FINALLY have some other folks in the […]
What About Billy?
Here’s a little something that ties in nicely with an earlier entry about Billy Packer. As Newsday columnist Neil Best wrote recently, Packer’s partner Jim Nantz stood up at a CBS press event and said if ESPN’s Dick Vitale receives a nomination to the Hall of Fame as a special contributor, then so should Packer. […]
Billy Packer – Patron Saint of Objectivity
It was the rarest of rarities (aside from Wolfpack championships) – a long profile in Sunday’s N&O that seemed tailor made for me. There are tons of great anecdotes (don’t miss the “shard grabbing” story) – read the whole thing. But the overriding theme reinforces what I like about Packer – his near slavish devotion […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘Shawty Get Loose’…and don’t come back
The 55-year-old tournament adopted as its theme song this year “Shawty Get Loose” by Lil Mama, a booty-shaking singer of barely discernible talent in tight leather pants. Why, oh why would the tradition-bound, staid ACC adopt a hootchy song as its theme song? Mark the calendars, lock up the kids, and throw away conventional wisdom…because […]
Anyone With Press Passes Covering the ACC Tourney?
Some of the old StateFans.com readers will remember back that in 01 or ’02 we actually covered the ACC Tournament from press row. If anyone can possibly cover the Tournament from press row, drop us an email statefans at gmail dot com
SFN Voted “Best ACC Blog” of 2007
Many thanks to Rocky Top Talk for their kind words: Continuity? Check. Their archives go back to December, 2004, which is the equivalent of being older than Adam in the college football blogosphere. Community? Uh-huh. Comments on front page posts regularly reach into the mutiple scores. Any blogger who’s been around for awhile knows how […]
‘Signgate’ stupidity and the good old double standard!
Been traveling a lot. (No…not the Tyler Hopswalk kind of traveling) Busy with work. Only so many hours in the day to keep the blog updated. I was at the game last night. Saw the “disgraceful” (sarcasm) sign that the baseball player held up at halftime. Didn’t think twice about it. All I could make […]
