We wanted to make sure that you good folks knew about the newest developments on PJ Hairston’s excellent adventure to Durham and had a place to voice your thoughts on the matter. You can refresh a little by reading this quick piece… UNC’s top scorer P.J. Hairston charged with possession of marijuana (USAToday.com) According to [...]
Website Refresh, 2012 Edition
As you might have gathered by now, SFN has a pretty different look since this morning. Poke around a bit and we’d love to hear your feedback. New and Notable: The UNC Scandal is highlighted on the homepage Football and Basketball articles get highlighted on the homepage You can now reply to people on the [...]
Coverage all over the place!
What a month!!! In addition to dozens of highly trafficked entries on the main blog over the last week, our new followers on Twitter are growing almost faster than we can receive the email notifications. If you have not yet started following us, you can access SFN’s Twitter presence by clicking here. Additionally, we really [...]
SFN seeks professional writer
StateFansNation’s traffic continues to grow, resulting in an internet platform and community whose breadth and depth of audience is very large, diverse and committed. With this said, we’d like to reach out to any freelance writers – not just those with sports backgrounds – to see if anyone has an interest in collaborating with us [...]
SFN gets high praise from Raycom
It’s been a wild couple of months of activity with the kickoff of football season and all of the extracurricular activities related to the mess in Chapel Hill. We’ve been working hard to try to stay on top of everything possible; so, we were very happy to have received the following praise from George Cox [...]
SFN’s Twitter Followers cross 1,000!
I never really understood the infatuation, relevance or usefulness of Twitter…until I allowed myself to first start using the service back in the fall. Since then, I think StateFansNation has been pretty effective using the Twitter platform to gather information, share information and cross-promote our website and message boards. On Saturday, SFN attracted our 1,000th [...]
Financing College Sports – Part Two
Written by VAWolf, posted by SFN: In the first installment of this series, we set the framework of how to look at financial reporting in college athletics with the following statement: Information is only as accurate and complete as what the individual schools choose to report. There is NO consistent set of standards or normalizing [...]
SFN on the Triangle Radio on Friday morning
Get your radios set for 10am on Friday morning in the Triangle! StateFansNation will be prominently featured in an extended interview on “The Sports Drive” with Taylor Zarzour at 10:00am (Link to ESPNTriangle) If you missed Jeff’s previous interview with Taylor Zarzour then you will enjoy catching up by clicking here.
A Big Thanks to the O3 Strategies Guys
It’s been over a year since we’ve had the pleasure of bringing in O3 as our Web Design & Development consultants. Many of you were around in the olden days of using free WordPress Templates and the many bugs and visual glitches that came along with that. Needless to say, the new format has invited [...]
Coverage all over the place!!
What a week!!! In addition to more than 30 front page blog entries over the last week, we have caught fire on Twitter at times. If you missed all of the ‘nuggets’ that were flying last night then you should check out our page by clicking here and do some reviewing. It isn’t just ‘game [...]