It was announced this week that Chris Corchiani Jr, the son of the “Fire” in “Fire and Ice”, will walk on at NC State next year. Corchiani Jr. relayed his decision via Twitter: State fans are looking forward to another Corchiani wearing the red and white of NC State. Welcome to the Pack, Chris!
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1989: ‘Worst Call in NCAA Tournament History’
NC State takes the floor a few minutes after noon today for a huge NCAA Tournament match-up against the Georgetown Hoyas today. Before you go any further, we ask that you check out today’s Gameday Headlines (linked here) and SFN’s unique game preview (linked here). For a set of bloggers that pride themselves on a […]
State-Carolina Gameday
The game is on The ACC Network, 8pm; locally that’s WRAL. The 1989 team — for you younger folks, that was our last regular-season champion — will be honored before tonight’s game. No word from the ACC yet if that’s considered “excessive demonstration.” As for the future of the rivalry? WRAL: The University of North […]
ACC: Hess reprimanded (8pm Update)
8pm Update: J.P. Giglio writes that Gugs and Fire were kicked out for “excessive demonstration” (N&O): In the email to N.C. State, Hess wrote: “They were ejected for excessive demonstration on several calls as they came right up to the scorer’s table. The policeman at the end of the FSU bench was warned that their […]
Hess “naturally has thick skin” (his words)
We’re not overreacting here, and we’re not in the mood to let this go easily. Luckily for us, we might actually have some help from elsewhere in the blogosphere and even from, of all folks, (gasp) the media. Courtesy of Mark Armstrong’s Twitter (ArmstrongWTVD), we’re directed to a 2008 column by Bill Hass, where Karl […]
Corchiani and Gugliotta should be Recognized at UNC Game
I received an email last night from a friend promoting the idea that these two “martyrs of sorts” should be honored or at least recognized before our game on Tuesday. At first I chuckled at the idea as it’s fantastic on its face for the most simple reasons. However, to honor these guys would be […]
Hess Fiasco Update – Yow has contacted Swofford; ACC to issue statement tonight [7:39pm]
ESPN is featuring Karl Hess’ ejection of Googs and Corch across all of their networks during college basketball coverage tonight. Kudos to Andy Katz who criticized Hess at halftime of the Florida-Arkansas game for needing to have thicker skin and pointing out the margin in today’s game was an astounding 18 points at the time […]
Karl Hess tosses NC State legends out of the game [4:50 pm Update]
In another slap in the face to NC State, one of the “top” ACC officials decided to throw Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani out of the basketball game. Welcome to another example of how awful the Atlantic Coast Conference has become and little league officials value NC State and our heritage and history. Can you […]
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