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RIP, Beano

The sport of football has lost two ‘old-timey’ legends over the last 24 hours. Yesterday former Detroit Lions all-star turned Webster’s father, Alex Karras passed away. Today we lost legendary media personality, Beano Cook. (Link) Beano Cook, a longtime staple of the Pittsburgh sports scene and an ESPN college football studio commentator since 1986, has [...]

Monday Musings

NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Five key plays ignited N.C. State’s upset of No. 3 FSU The celebratory music blaring in Carter-Finley Stadium late Saturday night drowned out what N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien was trying to tell the ESPN2 audience after the Wolfpack’s upset of third-ranked Florida State. The words to the song [...]

The Coach Who Won’t Coach

Great article from Sports Illustrated on Bill Cowher for some easy reading on a Monday evening. Maybe it is the jaw, that wonderful jutting jaw of Bill Cowher, that keeps everyone from believing him. There is no way around it: This is a jaw that belongs on the sideline of football games. Snow complements it. [...]

Friday Farrago

September 16, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Ryan Tice (TheWolfpacker.com) Game slowing for Mike Glennon The most noticeable thing for Glennon between his first two college starts was how the game began to slow down against Wake Forest, although the ACC opponents offered a stiffer test than Liberty, members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). “I [...]

Friday Farrago

September 2, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 1 DAY!!! J.P. GIGLIO (N&O) Pack’s Glennon will let his play do the talking Mike Glennon gets it. You want to compare him to Russell Wilson, that’s fine. N.C. State’s new quarterback understands it’s unavoidable, given the success Wilson enjoyed with the Wolfpack and the way [...]