It’s nice to see others have been inspired by NC State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow over the years! Per WRAL: North Carolina State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow won the inaugural Jimmy V ESPY for Perseverance on Wednesday. She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer while coaching the Wolfpack during this year’s NCAA […]
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Jim Valvano’s Room of Dreams
Found linked at PackPride, this video is inspirational. It’s awesome. (And you’ll also see future Wolfpack head coach Sidney Lowe and assistant coach Monty Towe in there.) Dreams come true at NC State. Dreams become reality at NC State. Are you a dreamer? Do you have dreams that you can make come true? Can you […]
Flashback: Jim Valvano on David Letterman, 1987
Many thanks to Scott at GarageGabs for this blast from the past. Those of you who remember V will enjoy this. Heck, those of you who’ve only heard about V from the rest of us will enjoy it. This is Classic Valvano, and really, there’s no better words for it than that.
The Jimmy V Legacy
I originally published “Laugh. Think. Cry.” in 2009, but it seems especially fitting to link it today, as State prepares to face Connecticut tonight at Madison Square Garden in the annual Jimmy V Classic. Having been written in 2009, before The Carolina Way was finally revealed as the giant lie we State fans have always […]
Closer look at the “Jimmy V” jersey
In yesterday’s entry honoring of the anniversary of the first game Jim Valvano coached at NC State we linked up the special jersey that NC State will wear in the Jimmy V Classic next week against UConn. This morning, Coach Gottfried tweeted a closer look at the jersey. You can click on the picture below […]
Jimmy V Week
This was originally posted by LRM three years ago (Laugh. Think. Cry.), but seems fitting to post again during Jimmy V week, especially the for the younger fans that may not realize there was once a time when State basketball was anything but an afterthought. V himself had said that team wasn’t very good. After […]
Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic 2011
The 18th Annual Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic will take place next weekend August 26-28. In addition to the golf tournament there are several other events taking place, you can find all of the following information at golfclassic.org The golf tournament itself will take place on Sunday August 28th starting at 9:30am at the Lonnie […]
Jimmy V for Jimmy V week
SFN’s twitter feed (Link) just ran across from this tweet from Sports Illustrated’s ‘photo vault’ SI Vault Photo (1983): It’s hard to look at this picture and not love Jim Valvano You can click here to see the photo, which I have never seen. God bless.
Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic – Aug 14-22
The Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic is coming up next weekend, I posted this on the message boards but wanted to share on the blog as well some brief information on all the various events that will be going on. All the events benefit the V Foundation and 100 percent of all direct donations and […]
Jimmy V’s Farewell Speech In Reynolds
Jimmy V Week is underway on ESPN, and while my wife and I were out at dinner, we saw V’s incredible speech at the ESPY Awards in 1993 replayed on the World Wide Leader. It was moving, as always, but the farewell speech I remember the best from Jim Valvano was one far more direct […]