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NFL.com: Andre Brown #4 senior RB

NFL.com has ranked NC State’s Andre Brown as the fourth best senior running back in the country. (Link to rankings here) We are going to close this entry to comments since you can read a lot more related to this topic at this entry from last week. In that conversation last week GAWolf made an [...]

Russell Wilson Won’t Need Surgery

Good news on the football (and baseball) front via GoPack.com: [NCSU QB Russell] Wilson, a first-team All-ACC performer, suffered a tear of his posterior cruciate ligament late in the second quarter [of the Papa John's Pizza Bowl] and did not return to action after halftime. He had passed for 186 yards and a touchdown and [...]

Birmingham – QB talk & Harrison Beck

I’ve got a lot of random items from the bowl game but will probably get around to the items in a fragmented manner. We’ve already touched upon NC State’s great fans (Click here) On Monday night in Birmingham after the loss to Rutgers Monday’s the group I was with ran into a lot of players [...]

Great Wolfpack fans help save another bowl

So sorry for the lack of activity on the blog over the last week or so. In addition to the holidays I went down to Birmingham for the game and my laptop is having some issues; I am just now getting back to something that resembles a normal life. I’ll have more from Birmingham later, but [...]

Semi-Live Bowl Blogging from Blowing Rock

I am in a mountain condo on my blackberry, so don’t expect updates every 5 minutes or graphics of any kind. But I am ready and willing to sort of live blog today, for the last time in 2008. I feel really good about today’s game, which I fear means impending doom. 3:04 – Eugene [...]

Great Read on O’Brien and His Coaching Philosophy

Update 1: Instead of making a new entry, I’ll add this bit here: Tom O’Brien said today that starting safety Clem Johnson will indeed be ready to play tomorrow in the Pizza Bowl. This is a positive for the Pack as it adds depth to a defensive secondary that’s sure to be tested all day [...]

ESPN: Video Preview

A nice two-minute look at our bowl game here. The PapaJohns.com really lucked out with its selections…Two of the hottest programs in college football Note McShay’s comments with 40 seconds remaining in the clip: Early in the year, remember, Mike Teal, the quarterback, was getting booed by his home crowd. May we do the pleasure [...]

State selling tickets in Birmingham; Fowler fails to capitalize on a media opportunity

The News & Observer reports that… N.C. State’s ticket office has sold about 5,500 of its allotment of 10,000 seats for the Papajohns.com Bowl, State assistant athletics director Brian Kelly said Thursday. Remember that these are only tickets sold officially through the Wolfpack Club. I usually suggest obtaining tickets from the WPC for bowl games; [...]

FanBlogs on Notre Dame Position

One of the more credible college sports blogs has a little rumor to share regarding some interesting developments related to the Notre Dame football coaching position. (Click here) We just like sharing it as a follow-up to our initial entry and resulting follow-up.

Vegas Oddmakers Are Noticing Russell Wilson

One of the dirty little secrets of college athletics is that people actually bet on games. That’s why points spreads exist. A proper point-spread incents equal betting on both sides of the point-spread and creating a 50/50 proposition (if the oddsmakers get things right). But, sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Sometimes the oddsmakers [...]

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NFL.com: Andre Brown #4 senior RB

Russell Wilson Won’t Need Surgery

Birmingham – QB talk & Harrison Beck

Great Wolfpack fans help save another bowl

Semi-Live Bowl Blogging from Blowing Rock

Great Read on O’Brien and His Coaching Philosophy

ESPN: Video Preview

State selling tickets in Birmingham; Fowler fails to capitalize on a media opportunity

FanBlogs on Notre Dame Position

Vegas Oddmakers Are Noticing Russell Wilson

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