Pack Baseball Dispatches UNC-G, FSU On Deck
In their regular season home finale, Wolfpack Baseball took care of business against UNC-G Tuesday night at Doak Field in Raleigh, topping the Spartans 7-0. The win improved the Pack’s record to 37-13 on the season (25-4 at home). State now hits the road to Tallahassee for its final three games of the season against [...]
Continue reading...May 15, 2012
Amile Jefferson to….Duke (rumors & analysis) [Updated at 5:05pm]
It is a sad day for NC State as Wynnewood (Pa.) Friends’ Central’s Amile Jefferson pulled a fast one and this afternoon publicly announced his intentions to attend Duke University this afternoon. Rivals.com ranks Jefferson as the #7 power forward and #36 overall player in the class of 2012. He holds similar rankings between #20 [...]
Continue reading...May 15, 2012
Roy Williams, 3 percent, and Swahili
In the past week, the News and Observer has dropped the academic bomb on the University of North Carolina. An investigation into the African and Afro-American studies classes from 2007-2011 showed the following: There were 686 enrollments for the 54 suspect classes. Of those, football players accounted for 246 of the enrollments, or 36 percent, [...]
Continue reading...May 14, 2012
UPDATED: Orange County DA asks SBI to probe UNC-CH academic scandal
WRAL link. Excerpts: Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall was so concerned by the report on the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that he has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to take up the case. and An internal UNC investigation of department courses between [...]
Continue reading...May 14, 2012
Ralston Turner commits to the Wolfpack
6’6″ guard Ralston Turner has announced that he has decided to transfer from LSU to the Wolfpack. The rising Junior averaged 9.3 PPG for the Tigers last season (12.3 as a freshman) and had recently been granted his release to explore other options in light of the coaching change in Baton Rouge. Turner brings athleticism [...]
Continue reading...May 14, 2012
Wolfpack to battle Wolverines in ACC-Big 10 Challenge
The line-up for the ACC-Big 10 Challenge were announced this afternoon, confirming some speculation regarding projected match-ups – particularly that NC State will travel to Ann Arbor to battle the (projected) Top 20 ranked, Michigan Wolverines. ESPN says the event will be highlighted by UNC at Indiana and outlines the entire schedule in this link. [...]
Continue reading...May 14, 2012
The Latest News From FSU Only Underlines The Disaster That Is John Swofford
Seems that this time there really is fire beneath the smoke coming from blogs and message boards: Florida State is not happy with its current situation in the Atlantic Coast Conference, something that had been rumored for years. Even worse, there is some very real sentiment in Tallahassee to leave the ACC – possibly making [...]
Continue reading...May 14, 2012
Pack Baseball Weekend Wrap – Post VT Series
Wolfpack Baseball dropped game three against Virginia Tech on Sunday by a score of 6-4, but still managed to take the weekend series in Blacksburg. In an ugly game three (for Wolfpack fans, at least) State could muster only four base hits on the day, while Pack pitching found itself constantly trying to work out [...]
Continue reading...May 13, 2012
Philip Rivers Gives Commencement Speech
Philip Rivers gave the commencement speech at graduation on Saturday at PNC Arena. If you have some time and haven’t seen it yet, give a listen to his words for the class of 2012 in this video from WRAL. Thought it was cool that he brought his oldest daughter with him since she’s the only [...]
Continue reading...May 13, 2012
UNC-CH: We lost to NC State because we didn’t paint our nails
If Shaun Draughn and his vaseline wasn’t enough to perpetuate UNC-CH student stereotypes a few years ago, we give you this video that you cannot miss! (Hat tip to this thread on the SFN message forums.)
Continue reading...May 13, 2012
Amile Jefferson set to make decision public
Hopefully you are one of the more than 6,000 people that follow SFN on Twitter!! If for some reason you are missing our NC State-related tweets, then you may not have seen the news last night that we passed along — Amile Jefferson is set to make his college decision. Amile Jefferson will make his [...]
Continue reading...May 11, 2012
[Update] Pack 9 Takes Games 1 & 2; Pack Baseball @ VT
After enjoying some home cooking on an extended homestand (10-1), Wolfpack Baseball hits the road to Blacksburg, Va. this weekend to take on Virginia Tech for a three game weekend series. The Pack currently sits at 34-12 on the year (16-8, 2nd Atlantic) and is riding a 10 game win streak. The Pack has outscored [...]
Continue reading...May 11, 2012
State & UNC will play twice next basketball season
NC State will play home and home series with the other three teams that comprise the top of the projected ACC standings next season – North Carolina, Duke and Florida State. Hopefully the Wolfpack will do that with the services of a fourth McDonalds All-American (link). Great blog post of interest linked here from ESPN’s [...]
Continue reading...May 11, 2012
CBS: Amile Jefferson to decide next week, Pack in strong position
I don’t want to displace this update on the severe academic fraud (and recent arrests) related to UNC-CH athletics…but… …CBS’ Jon Rothstein just tweeted the following: About three weeks ago, SFN felt very good about the NC State’s chances to land Jefferson; but the buzz got a little quiet for a while. I can’t help [...]
Continue reading...May 10, 2012
UNC-CH academic scandal update & Tar Heel police blotter roundup
A WRAL story that went up this evening has some interesting details regarding the widening academic scandal in Chapel Hill. The most important thing to me is the revelation that, according to the article, ~58% of the students in the “suspect” classes were athletes: More than half of the students enrolled in the classes in question were [...]
Continue reading...May 10, 2012
DFCF: 2,000 days since UNC-CH beat State in football
We just wanted to commemorate an anniversary with our readers today as it has been 2,000 days since UNC-CH last found a way to defeat NC State on the football field. This little statistical nugget came to my attention through Dave From Cater-Finley’s twitter feed this afternoon. If you are looking for more NC State-related [...]
Continue reading...May 10, 2012
Torian Graham listed as a 2013 prospect
In more recruiting related news, it appears that Torian Graham has been ‘reclassified’ as a 2013 prospect: The Phenom Hoop Report, produced by Rick Lewis, the father of N.C. State signee Tyler Lewis, already lists Graham as a reclassified Class of 2013 prospect in stories about the Hoop Group Jam and Reebok Breakout Challenge. His [...]
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May 16, 2012
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