Just a quick tip of the hat to “The Big Picture“ We’ve enjoyed a couple of their entries this week and thought that we’d shoot you over there for some perusing. Today’s “Stuart Scottization of ESPN” is one with which we can agree. And the ranking of the best recent sports brawls is the kind […]
SFN Stuff
Noon, Noon, Noon & Announcing (Updated 2:35pm)
Noon Kickoffs After losing to both Akron and Wake Forest in our only noon kickoffs of the season, NC State has been scheduled for the noon kickoff slot (on miserable Raycom/Lincoln Financial) for the next two weeks. Link to comprehensive schedule and link to an entry about the inconvenient nature of the Akron scheduling (as […]
More Hickson in the Media
To illustrate the point of why JJ Hickson’s commitment was so vital to the health (and maybe more importantly, the perceived health) of the NC State basketball program, we direct you to this Fayetteville Observer article and Dave Glenn’s insightful blog post. Perhaps the best summary I’ve seen is in the last two paragraphs of […]
Amato Off Mandel’s List
In June of 2005, Sports Illustrated‘s Stewart Mandel listed Chuck Amato as the nation’s most over-rated coach. (Link) In June of 2006, Sports Illustrated‘s Stewart Mandel demoted Chuck Amato and called him the nation’s worst coach.(Link) This week, Mandel made some revisions to his 2006 list. In a move that Jeff obviously supported in this […]
SI’s SEASON Predictions Wrong by Week 5
Sorry. We couldn’t help ourselves. We wanted to make point about the “power” of preseason prognostications. The “experts” write it before a single game is played. Therefore, it must be true. The public – and fans – read what is written and start committing it to their conscious as something that is generally accepted to […]
Holtz & 850 Buzz: Nailing The Predictions
We like to give credit when & where credit is due. In review of the comments made before and during the NC State-Florida State football games, we wanted to give some specific credit to two sources that really deserve mention. * Prior to the Pack’s 24-20 win on Thursday night, 850 The Buzz Blog’s Adam […]
Southern Fried Football
Don’t forget…the Packman and the Southern Fried Football tour will be in Raleigh on Thursday night for the game. (Link to schedule) If you see the Packman and the WFNZ folks, give them your best hospitality.
06-07 Top Guards (Updated 5pm)
With basketball approaching before you know it, Gary Parrish ranks his top 20 point guards in America in this column. The ACC lands three of the top 10 playmakers, but none of the next ten. Obviously Dick Vitale wasn’t doing the list or you could automatically add a Duke player to the list to give […]
Good Job by NCAA
It’s pretty rare that anyone has much good to say about the NCAA, so I want to break the trend….Whoever is in charge of putting the stats from football games on the web does a bang-up job. The team pages are extremely well organized with more numbers right at your fingertips than you will see […]
NC State Makes Deadspin…
…thanks to our student section’s in-game pissing. Huzzah!
