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TSN: Annual Top Sports Cities List
Sporting News‘ annual list of the top sports cities in America is out today and can be seen by clicking here. Raleigh+Durham+Chapel Hill comes in at #17 while Charlotte hits the list at #23. Mike DeCourcy has a good essay on this year’s owner of the top spot – ‘Pittsburgh lives in you, even when you live [...]
Continue reading...March Madness
26. March 2009
While you get ready for today’s basketball action, here something for you to consider: A Little March Madness Can Be Good For The Workplace Along with all of this media coverage, come all of the reports of how much March Madness will cost the economy in terms of lost productivity. Distracted by office pools, tournament brackets, and [...]
Continue reading...RIP Skip Caray
4. August 2008
Many of us grew-up listening to Skip Caray and following the Atlanta Braves from baseball’s worst franchise in the late 70s and 1980s into one of baseball’s best franchises since 1990. The voice of our generation passed away in his sleep. This post does an excellent job of highlighting various stories on the internet that may be [...]
Continue reading...WRAL/TWC to Show All NCAAT Games in HD
18. March 2008
I’m looking forward to being glued to my couch from after my business lunch on Thursday until Sunday night. Cable companies may very well be evil, but they just bought a whole hell of alot of goodwill with me! The new wrinkle this year is running all 4 HD feeds at concurrently – no more [...]
Continue reading...SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature
2. January 2008
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted to take [...]
Continue reading...Rivalry Week – An Opponent’s Perspective
6. November 2007
Earlier, this year, I asked a friend of mine to write a guest post outlining his perspective of the State/Carolina rivalry. Some background – he is an avid ACC historian and trivia king (rivals our own noah on those fronts), a “friend of the blog,” and the only “football first” UNC fan that I [...]
Continue reading...Remember the 80s – A Golden Era of ACC Basketball
13. June 2007
I was chatting with a UNC fan colleague yesterday, who is also a world-class ACC historian (could have a great conversation with SFN commenter noah). He has an extensive game collection, and recently acquired tape of the first State/Carolina matchup in 1984. You may remember that as the year the Wolfpack opened with [...]
Continue reading...MLB Team Values
25. April 2007
An interesting diversion for you. (Link) The link to the “Heavy Lifting” blog has some very detailed information for sports junkies.
Continue reading...Recruiting’s dirty game / NCS + TOB + CTC Comments (Updated 11:20am)
12. April 2007
With the Spring Football game approaching this weekend and with NC State’s football recruiting evolving into a very different dynamic under Tom O’Brien than we had under Chuck Amato, we thought that we would share some interesting insight from a former college football coach. (Tip of the hat to Dave Sez for linking this up a [...]
Continue reading...College Football Recruiting Map
19. February 2007
We’re spending a little time on football tonight, so it is a good time to highlight a really, really neat website that we ran across a couple of weeks ago when football recruiting was hot. Amongst a lot of other things, this hotlink to “MapGameDay.com” maps the geographical location of every high school commitment throughout the [...]
Continue reading...SFN Garners #2
6. February 2007
StateFansNation experienced quite a year of growth and popularity in 2006. Included in our growth was a significant amount of public recognition, most recently evidenced by our #2 finish in the ACC category in the College Football Bloggers Awards. Link to story State Fans Nation is one of the most vibrant, interactive communities on the web. Virtually every [...]
Continue reading...Fanblogs On Fire
23. January 2007
Fanblogs isn’t the only blog with multiple entries that might interest you. ACCNow continues to refine their craft and share great stuff. They’ve been following Engin Atsur’s injury very closely and today provide us some optimistic news (linked here). I don’t know if you check 0ut Fanblogs.com very often, but most of [...]
Continue reading...A View from the Cheap Seats
8. January 2007
But let’s be honest, there’s not a conceivable playoff system out there that will both determine a true national champion while simultaneously filling the coffers of every BCS school (and, of course, Notre Dame). The NCAA basketball tournament is a billion-dollar three-weekend event that crowns a true national champion with unrivaled elegance and unscripted suspense. Unfortunately, there’s just no way college football could ever replicate it. But that’s ok, because the three-month regular season is college football’s billion-dollar event. Almost every Saturday along the way during these three months we the fans get a big game or two (or more, on those rare Saturdays) that means something to the standings. I’m good with that.
Continue reading...Bowl Giving and Fun Stuff
28. December 2006
Tip of the hat to 850TheBuzz for highlighting this article at Rivals about the loot raked in by players at collegiate bowl games. Some other fun stuff that you really should spend some time enjoying this morning: * Not a Good Way to be Added as a friend (Link) * NFL’s Most Annoying Player (Link) * West Virginia is [...]
Continue reading...Football Stat Relevance
18. December 2006
VaWolf will love this! Awesome statistical information for football junkies. Thanks to SMQ for the work. First counterintuitive result: the most penalized teams were slightly better as a whole than the least penalized teams. Penalty yardage, over the course of an entire season, had no discernible effects on winning and losing. You can probably think of [...]
Continue reading...Deadspin: Fun Stuff
18. December 2006
We thought that we would start the week off with some fun items of non-NC State interest. All of the following links are from Deadspin in recent days. And all are pretty good in their own way. Riot: UMass Students find reason to riot Oregon Ducks new football helmets: It might save some money [...]
Continue reading...BCS Playoffs: Where you Lose Me EVERY time
15. November 2006
It is that time of year again!! Time to whine about college football’s bowl system and lack of playoffs! I have engaged in dozens of fantastic conversations with friends in recent years regarding the topic of a hypothetical playoff system in college football. You may be surprised to learn that in the [...]
Continue reading...Bill Simmons Back Tracks on Bush v Mario Williams
10. November 2006
Bill Simmons is probably one of SFN’s favorite writers. We are about the same age, grew up at the same time etc. His “13 Levels of Losing” is a MUST read for all NC State fans. That said, he jumped the gun on the Mario Williams/Reggie Bush debate like many of his friends in the media. In [...]
Continue reading...SFN Impact Update
9. November 2006
Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we [...]
Continue reading...Tailgating Gear
13. September 2006
Let’s try to break the current tension around NC State’s football program with this departure to the parking lot of our dreams. Of course, you can probably enter the parking lot of your dreams whenever you would like as opposed to the gates of Carter-Finley Stadium.
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8. October 2009
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