It is really great reading various media members praise Mario Williams: Peter King: Texans got it right; Williams vindicates Houston for risky No. 1 pick in ’06 SportingNews: Texans’ Williams looks better than ever As a fantastic reminder, Jeff went “On the Record” on SFN before the NFL draft as a response to ESPN’s resident […]
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BCS System Attracts TV Viewers
While some seem to enjoy flights of fancy, I much prefer fact-based posts and analysis. Unfortunately, a recent entry here on the BCS system showed once again that there are alot of opinions floating around, but frightfully few facts. So I thought that this article was particularly interesting because we actually get a few facts: […]
850 “The Buzz” Highlights Lack of Professionalism From BC’s AD
Click over to their blog for good analysis and comments (well, most are good). Quote from Jackhole DeFilippo: “We’re having fun now,†he said. “We’ve won before, but we had no fun. This is still a game, it’s not life and death. The fun is back in Boston College football. Tom did a wonderful job […]
Why the Incorrect Boxscore Matters
Yesterday we ran a quick entry about our observation that there were two different boxscores – and therefore one incorrect boxscore – issued for the UNO @ NC State game on Sunday night. We received a note from someone simply explaining that NC State issued two box scores for the game. That was a polite […]
Talk About Timing! Right on Cue
“They’ say that timing is everything and we had a couple of items that couldn’t have been more appropriately timed. (1) First comes the Greensboro News & Record trumpeting a song that you have heard ad nauseum this year. On the day after someone actually took the time to crunch the numbers and generate some […]
Lincoln Financial Sports Sold; Maryland Game Set For Noon
* Lincoln Financial Sports was unsurprisingly sold today. * Get ready for Steve Martin and Doc Walker. * If you haven’t been over too the N&O’s ACCNow Blog today then you should take a quick trip. Lots of good items on there since Saturday’s game.
Forde: North Carolina Home To Upset Kings
It’s a 110-mile drive from Boone, N.C., home of the Appalachian State Mountaineers, to Boiling Springs, N.C., home of the Gardner-Webb Bulldogs. Unfortunately, no major roadway directly links the two. Perhaps it’s time to build one and name it Giant Killer Highway. Rural North Carolina has become the cradle of upsets in the most unnatural […]
SI’s Luke Winn – Great Wolfpack Hoops Preview
Yes, indeed – another national columnist is drinking the Sidney Lowe Kool-Aid. You definitely need to read the whole thing, but here’s a taste: Amid all the veterans — Grant, the lone senior, plus returning starters Costner, Courtney Fells and Ben McCauley — a big kid is wearing No. 1 and looking like the most […]
Putting the Blame Where It Lies
Harsh, but spot-on. The source is really surprising, but apparently nobody in the Triangle market had the stones to call it like it is. One simply indisputable fact about N.C. State football became obvious this week. After spending the team’s bye week giving the third team (mainly expected-redshirt freshman, low-value scholarship athletes and walk-ons) as […]
Weird Blog Post on WRAL.com
WRAL.com is starting to venture into different waters. It holds the rights to NC State broadcasts and marketing, and it has also started a sports radio station. So it is weird to see poorly written articles slamming the Wolfpack. The problems that State has are surely one of talent and depth but c’mon if Stanford […]
