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Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part III, Philip Rivers

This is Part III of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many of us [...]

Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part II, 2000-06

This is Part II of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many of us [...]

Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part I, The 1990s

Back in March of this year, any column I would’ve written could’ve only been titled “Why I should’ve gone to [insert SEC school here].” As I left Tobacco Road on Glenwood Avenue after watching yet another State basketball season mercifully end – like so many years before it – on the Thursday of the ACC [...]

Revisiting Last February’s Analysis

We will come back to this once the 2008-09 season is completely over. But I think it’s a good time to look back at this entry from last February, after a particularly brutal loss to Boston College. Many of our current commenters posted thoughts on that thread. Now that a little over a year has [...]

Pitchers and Catchers Are Reporting This Week

I was listening to the news with one ear as I worked on the site tonight, and heard that pitchers and catchers are reporting to Spring Training for Major League Baseball. That of course reminded me of my favorite future New York Yankee, some guy we probably remember very well. If ever I meet Andrew [...]

NC State – Florida State Notes and Links (with BJD95 Analysis)

The Wolfpack men’s hoops team takes back to the hardwoods tonight to battle Florida State in an ACC contest. Confidence in State is not high right now in the fanbase, which has been conditioned to expect sub-par play (to put it kindly) from the backcourt and certain lack of fire from upperclassmen front-court players. In [...]

Laugh. Think. Cry.

V himself had said that team wasn’t very good. After a 6-8 conference record, State was seeded sixth for the 1987 ACC Tournament in Landover. But somehow – not unlike a few years earlier on an even bigger stage – Jim Valvano’s Cardiac Pack had survived and advanced to the title game, where they would [...]

Jimmy V’s Farewell Speech In Reynolds

Jimmy V Week is underway on ESPN, and while my wife and I were out at dinner, we saw V’s incredible speech at the ESPY Awards in 1993 replayed on the World Wide Leader. It was moving, as always, but the farewell speech I remember the best from Jim Valvano was one far more direct [...]

Duke Gameday

At long last, the Devils and Pack meet in the post-expansion era. Even though the teams have combined for just one ACC win, entertainment potential is high, and the TV folks will likely regret passing on it. Yours truly will be inside Wallace Wade, semi-live blogging as blackberry reception allows. Local media have some good [...]

ACC Sports Journal: Wolfpack Failed to Fix Line With 2005 Class

Recently the ACC Sports Journal completed major changes to their website and the layout of their print edition. For anyone interested, they are offering a free 30 day trial to their website. You can register by going here: Free 30 day Trial One cool feature non-subscribers can use on their website is the “Daily Links” [...]

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Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part III, Philip Rivers

Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part II, 2000-06

Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part I, The 1990s

Revisiting Last February’s Analysis

Pitchers and Catchers Are Reporting This Week

NC State – Florida State Notes and Links (with BJD95 Analysis)

Laugh. Think. Cry.

Jimmy V’s Farewell Speech In Reynolds

Duke Gameday

ACC Sports Journal: Wolfpack Failed to Fix Line With 2005 Class

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