I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
Ted Brown: CFB HOF Class of ’13
As kid growing up, Ted Brown was one of my absolute favorite players so this makes me very happy indeed. It was announced today that former Wolfpack great, and still all-time ACC rushing leader Ted Brown will be included in the 14 man 2013 class of inductees into the National Football Foundation and College Hall [...]
FourFourEightyThree: 30 Years Later, The Cougs Are Still Crying
Thirty years later, the images are still etched into my mind and those of most Pack fans old enough to remember. The team in red, the huge underdogs, hugging each other with tears streaming. Fists and/or index fingers raised to the sky to indicate that the Pack truly was number one in the land once [...]
Flashback: In 1974, N.C. State stood atop hoops world
Nice little write up re: ’73-’74 team on ESPN’s Fandom Blog this morning. Figured we could use something positive today even if it was nearly 40 years ago… It was a far different time in college basketball, before the 3-point line and one-and-done teenagers opting for the NBA. Dunking in games was outlawed and only [...]
ESPN’s 30 For 30 Shorts: Silver Reunion
In addition to the excellent 30 For 30 “Survive And Advance” about the 83 championship team, ESPN has also recently released a 13 minute short about the 1972 Olympic basketball team called “Silver Reunion”. NC State’s own Tommy Burleson was a member of that team that lost the gold medal game to the Soviet Union [...]
Random Fact that may only interest me
Taking a title that is used in Peter King’s weekly MMQB column on SI.com, I see a pattern when it comes to NC State and the NCAA Tournament. It seems like every time this century when the Wolfpack makes the tournament they wind up playing the first game of the day. State has been to [...]
Everett Case Wants to be Your Friend!
Yep. The father of big time basketball in the south. The driver behind the wheel that was the creation of the ACC. The man who created the Dixie Classic, popularized cutting down the nets and put NC State basketball on the map…is also a facebook fanatic. And he loves him some StateFansNation so you know [...]
Grantland: “Turned State”
Dave Tompkins, Grantland: Prior to the Pack turning a 30-foot airball into the most memorable on-court bear-hug hunt of all time and sports, I only knew State through David Thompson. The first player to be certified as “Skywalker,” Thompson acquired a nice Embers song in his name while helping the Wolfpack to a title in [...]
Wolfpack: 2012 Year in Review
As we all know by now, the Mayans were not correct and the world did not end. Since that day has come and past, we can look back on the highlights of the past 366 days (this year was a leap year people). In David Letterman fashion, here is this year’s top 10 list of [...]
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 [...]