In a word, yep. There is a very real possibility that ESPN will host its famous college football show ESPN College GameDay from outside of Carter-Finley Stadium next week. It is a scenario that even the most optimistic State fan (yea there are still a few of those) could imagine after a 3-9 record in […]
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AJC: ACC Considering 9-game Schedule (again)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: …At the board of trustees meeting for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association last Thursday, athletic director Mike Bobinski shared an update about scheduling discussions among officials at the ACC member schools and brought up ESPN’s possible influence. At the conference’s meetings this week, the conference and ESPN are expected to have an […]
John Skipper’s ESPN to feature UNC Scandal on OTL tonight
Will wonders ever cease? Outside the Lines will run a report this evening on ESPNnews at 6pm. The question will be if the report will be designed to genuinely ask questions and seek truth, or will it be designed to run interference for the precious Tar heel basketball program which has sent dozens of key […]
Is Your Program Relevant To Dick Vitale?
A quick little bit of fun found out on the Internet: Is your basketball program relevant to Dick Vitale? This is pretty much dead on, if you ask me.
ESPN’s 30 For 30 Shorts: Silver Reunion
In addition to the excellent 30 For 30 “Survive And Advance” about the 83 championship team, ESPN has also recently released a 13 minute short about the 1972 Olympic basketball team called “Silver Reunion”. NC State’s own Tommy Burleson was a member of that team that lost the gold medal game to the Soviet Union […]
Statistical example of ESPN’s sports coverage
Want some great blend of depth and breadth of credible, legitimate sports news and coverage in your primary sports media source? I know this isn’t revolutionary insight for you…but, you probably need to look somewhere other than the ‘world wide leader’ – ESPN. For support of the previous statement, you should follow this great work […]
Red Letter Night for Wolfpack
Carter-Finley and the fantastic Wolfpack fans shone as bright as ever during ESPN’s Thursday night television broadcast. (With the lone exception of the fire-able offense of significantly embarrassing the entire NC State community with the playing of “Who Let the Dogs Out†late in the 4th quarter. I am not kidding. Fire the person who […]
Jim Young takes a closer look at the ACC/ESPN TV deal
While it was widely reported Monday that the ACC had reached a new TV deal with ESPN, many of the details of that deal (aside from the money part of the equation) were left somewhat up in the air. As more details of the deal begin to come out during the next few days and […]
The finances behind the destruction of college basketball
SFN: We’d like to thank one of our loyal readers, ‘noah’, for submitting this great piece. If you would ever like to submit an entry for the front page of the blog please just email us at [email protected] So, now that the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is over, I suppose we can say goodbye to […]
NC State – North Carolina picked as a top ‘rivalry’ for 2009
First, I detest the inappropriate use of the term ‘rivalry’ used to describe a short term time horizon such as a single season. No matter how long they play football on this earth the Florida State – Wake Forest game will never be a ‘rivalry’. Could they really not have found a better term to […]
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