Athletic Director Lee Fowler released the 2007-2008 annual report for NC State Athletics. Except for a few individual student-athletes and a couple individual programs, it was the accomplishments of NC State’s fantastic supporters and fans that received the most attention in the report. First, the NC State fans helped land Head Football Coach, Tom O’Brien; […]
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Report: Tarheel Trio To Return Despite Criticisms & Attacks of UNC Fans
Inside Carolina is reporting that Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green will all return to Chapel Hill for the 2008-2009 college basketball season, virtually guaranteeing that the Tarheels will hold the #1 preseason ranking as the heavy favorite to win the 2009 National Championship. Lawson, Ellington and Green had become the targets of significant […]
Friday Morning: Lee Fowler on 850 The Buzz Friday; Audio Link Now Up
Thanks to all of you who have posted 30 updates and comments regarding Fowler’s “interview” this morning. We’ll continue to have more commentary as time goes by. 11:15 Update Here’s a link to the audio of the interview: Lee Fowler Takes Your Calls (850 The Buzz’s Blog) My apologies if I wasn’t the smoothest reader […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
Ya’ll know this is all our fault – mine and yours – right? It’s simple, really. There is a profound dichotomy to the average State fan, a great paradox that makes each of us our own worst enemy: we are intensely loyal…to a fault. As long as we continue to feed this monster, improvement won’t […]
‘Signgate’ stupidity and the good old double standard!
Been traveling a lot. (No…not the Tyler Hopswalk kind of traveling) Busy with work. Only so many hours in the day to keep the blog updated. I was at the game last night. Saw the “disgraceful” (sarcasm) sign that the baseball player held up at halftime. Didn’t think twice about it. All I could make […]
Video from Sunday and Student Cheering Conversation
We already have post-game entry open open for comments about the game. The excellent video in this entry is from the N&O’s great coverage of the Wake-State game. Additionally, we’d like to offer a special thanks to the N&O for covering the end of the game so well as you will see in the video […]
November 29th: Boston College @ NC State
We expect that Atlantic Coast Conference to announce the 2008 Football Schedule any moment now. But, the brass at the conference office cannot be happy about the fact that Boston College has leaked their 2008 schedule to the public before the conference’s announcement. We found this link at Boston.com this morning that details the Eagles’ […]
Sporting News/850 Blog: You Stay Classy, UNC Fans
The UNC loss was obviously a huge surprise given how poorly Maryland has played this season. But perhaps more surprising was the reaction of their fans, which has been well documented over the weekend. This morning, however, we were sent a new-to-us video featuring audio of the fans yelling at the Terps after Hansbrough bricked […]
Forbes: The Most Valuable College Basketball Teams (Updated 4pm)
Note: Introductory Message for our new visitors – SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature Forbes has come out with a great piece that effectively ranks college basktball programs by “value” that is primarily derived from operating financials from last year. You need to realize that a major component of ‘value’ is the […]
Dear ‘Jags’, The Feeling is Mutual
The Boston College Eagles are gearing up to play Michigan State today in the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando..and evidently, the Eagles aren’t very happy to be there. We provide the following from BC’s top blogger, Eagle in Atlanta: Let me echo what Jags is saying — this is not where we wanted to be, […]
