Len Bias would’ve been 50 years old this week. Thanks to Deadpsin for highlighting that “twenty-seven years later we’re still losing our shit over Len Bias,” Although I don’t accept the entirety of Deadpsin’s hypothesis that all of the 1980-era drug laws resulted from over-reaction to the Bias tragedy, the Deadspin entry and many of […]
1986
Comprehensive (But Scattered) Thoughts on the Pitt Game
When I think about today’s game, I recall the first glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel. I had been going to NC State football games my whole life (in fact, one of my earliest memories is of the eerie silence settling over C-F when Penn State beat us on a last second […]
Great Wolfpack fans help save another bowl
So sorry for the lack of activity on the blog over the last week or so. In addition to the holidays I went down to Birmingham for the game and my laptop is having some issues; I am just now getting back to something that resembles a normal life. I’ll have more from Birmingham later, but […]
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 […]
1986: V Interview on CBS
Every fan of every school has a cache of moments that are particularly special to them for some reason or another. Because the years of 1980-1985 were so forgettable…1986 came along for me at a time where I was definitely ‘old enough to remember’ while also being somewhat ‘blank’ as it related to NC State […]
