It’s always nice to be recognized by your peers, and StateFans Nation is proud to be nominated for three College Football Blogger Awards. We have been nominated for “Best ACC Blog,” “Best Community Interaction Award (see, you faithful readers and commenters do play a vital role here – fittingly, we found out about these nominations […]
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Hodge Traded for Blake; No Punches Thrown
Talk about sick irony! It doesn’t getting any crazier than NC State’s Julius Hodge being traded for Maryland’s Steve Blake. The Denver Nuggets need some breathing space from luxury-tax territory. The Milwaukee Bucks need backcourt scoring to counter their injury crisis. That’s why the teams, according to NBA front-office sources, are combining on a trade […]
TOB: “The Goal is Always to win a National Championship”
Nice! Nothing ambiguous and immeasureable about “being competitive” or “improving” or “building great relationships”. We don’t mind if all of ^these items are a part of the mix and are discussed in the future…but, TOB laid the public groundwork for his program perfectly with this quote. “I think the goal is always to win a […]
Flashback: Jim Valvano on David Letterman, 1987
Many thanks to Scott at GarageGabs for this blast from the past. Those of you who remember V will enjoy this. Heck, those of you who’ve only heard about V from the rest of us will enjoy it. This is Classic Valvano, and really, there’s no better words for it than that.
Another Tarheel Announcer Deserving Criticism
We’ve already ripped on Woody Durham last week…so why not another one? A lot of people don’t seem to know that irritating Jim Lampley (Bio) is a ‘one of them’. Evidently he is cut from King Rice mold as he has been arrested for domestic violence charges. Deadspin is all over this one. HBO boxing […]
Murphy: “The consultant did the work”
Love it. Read into it what you will…but Murphy’s comments are pretty spot on. This is from ACC Sports Journal’s website: “(The NCSU football search) was done professionally, and it was done quietly. The consultant did the work, Lee (Fowler) kept it quiet, and no one was tracking my airplane on the internet. … I […]
Q&A With Sidney Lowe
On the eve/morning (depeding on when you read this) of Sidney Lowe’s first ACC game in the RBC Center the ACC.com shares with us a “Q&A with Sidney Lowe“: Q: What is it like to be back at NC State? It means everything to me. This is my home. I love NC State; I’ve always […]
Two-Sport Standouts
This piece at ESPN snuck through during the holiday season and we wanted to make sure that it didn’t go totally ignored. ESPN’s Pat Forde used Jeff Sagarin’s ratings over a five-year period to come up with a ranking of the two-sport schools over the last five years. The results are interesting. NC State logged […]
Look lively, chums, Bob Lee’s reading this!
(P.S. UNC-CH still stinks.)
StateFansNation has a fan in Bob Lee Swagger, local UNC-Chapel Hill sports fan, “loud-mouth conservative,” and scourge of “message board loons,” “nutty faculty squirrels” and inept, kneejerk “politically correct” chancellors with bald heads who play organ. In his 2006 “close-out special” column — just prior to ripping UNC-CH figurehead admin John “The Voice of the […]
Mandel: NC State is ‘That Kind of Place’
Just your average, Wolfpack-promoting entry here. This one is brought on by CNNSI’s College Football writer, Stewart Mandel. Mandel runs a ‘mailbag’ column every now and then and this week he was asked the following by Mike E. in Ringwood, N.J.: It strikes me as curious: Why would Tom O’Brien leave BC for an intradivision […]
