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Busy summer Monday

There is more news for a Monday morning in the middle of the summer than one could imagine. The UNC athletics and academic scandal, Penn State and the NCAA, pre-season basketball and football articles, and yesterday’s ACC Kickoff creates a TON of items available for discussion. Really the big news of the day from an [...]

Football Hits

As we await football season, Luke DeCock has a few “areas of interest” around the Triangle and ACC (N&O, highlighted by the following: The ACC season will kick off Aug. 31 when N.C. State faces Tennessee in Atlanta, but for fans, college football gets going in earnest this week, with the annual Pigskin Preview on [...]

ACC Football Power Rankings

From the National Football Post linked here. 5. N.C. State: Head coach Tom O’Brien navigated his team through an up-and-down season in 2011 but finished strong, ending the year on a three-game roll including wins over Clemson and a bowl victory over Louisville. Quarterback Mike Glennon cut down on his interceptions late in the year, [...]

Glennon searching for wins, recognition

Andrew Jones at FoxSportsCarolina.com had this article the other day about Glennon having his chance to shine without sharing any spotlight. Mike Glennon spent his first three football seasons at N.C. State patiently playing behind stat-sheet-stuffing quarterback Russell Wilson. An Elite 11 signal caller in high school, Glennon was getting a bit antsy toward the [...]

TOB & Googs to represent in Chick-fil-A Bowl Charity Golf Event

Head football coach Tom O’Brien and basketball legend Tom Gugliotta will make up the two man team representing NC State in the Chick-fil-A Bowl Golf Challenge.  The event is being held beginning this Sunday, April 29 thru Tuesday, May 1 at the Reynolds Plantation resort.  It features 16 schools competing for the first place prize [...]