Say What? No Room for NC State Coverage?
Saturday’s News & Observer told the world that basketball is back in style at Duke. At Carolina, Roy Williams relishes the role as the favorite.
But, Sunday’s News and Observer somehow found room in today’s sports pages for an article about former UNC-CH quarterback Darian Durant’s play in the Canadian Football League, a 59 year old jockey winning a horse-race, and NASCAR needing to fund diversity efforts…but they couldn’t find space for the hometown major conference member’s open basketball practice that was held yesterday with the two top high school recruits in the country in attendance.
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Sunday’s print edition of The Charlotte Observer included a few pages of college football coverage. 50% of page 17C was devoted to NC State Football with three articles - two of which had been run in the N&O and on ACCNow in the days before Sunday.
The other 50% of page 17C was devoted to college football’s “National Outlook”. At the bottom of the page they had a section labeled “Big East”.
Guess the big news coming out of the “Big East” over the weekend?
“University of Miami quarterback Robert Marve was told Friday that he has been suspended for the season opener against Charleston Southern….”
This is a preview of Charlotte Observer: Miami Back in Big East (Updated @ 12:45pm)
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I recognize the value in the synergies created by merging many of the duplicative functions created by having operations in both Raleigh and Charlotte; but, the N&O’s Sports Page had easily become the best part of the newspaper while the Charlotte Observer’s sports page is rife with bias, off-base coverage and one of the worst I have ever seen.
Of all the fanbases out there, this move should scare NC State fans the most. Charlotte has a history of misunderstanding NC State while taking an absurdly adversarial approach to the Wolfpack when they choose to cover State - which is disproportionately less than the size and magnitude of NC State fans and followers would warrant as the area’s largest University.
This is a preview of Changes Coming to N&O Sports Section
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“This is a nightmare for Roy Williams” — Billy Packer, 9:31 remaining in the first half with the score Kansas 33 UNC 10
“This game…is OVER” — Billy Packer, 7:31 remaining in the first half with the score Kansas 38 UNC 12
It would take a blind person less than a nanosecond to recognize the enormous difference in quality between the N&O’s fantastic ACC Now blog and the college basketball blog of the Charlotte Observer. Therefore, typically don’t link to the Charlotte Observer’s “Above The Rim” blog because…well…it’s pretty bad and rarely offers us any value.
This is a preview of The Larry Brown Final Four
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I would like to link to the Charlotte Observer piece on the blog…but, their crappy website isn’t loading very well this morning so they will have to go without our referal traffic today.
“NC State is an impossible team to figure out. The Wolfpack defeated Villanova on a neutral court and won at Seton Hall, but played miserably against Western Carolina and Presbyterian. Here’s an educated guess that NC State will start 1-5 in the ACC thanks to a difficult early schedule”
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Seven ACC baseball teams made the 64-team NCAA tournament field announced Monday, with North Carolina one of four regional hosts from the league and N.C. State the No. 2 seed at the Austin, Texas, regional.
Special thanks to News & Observer for sharing with the world that both Carolina and State made the NCAA Baseball Tournament in this piece.
The Pack will face perennial Pacific-10 power Stanford (30-25) in its first game at noon Friday. The Cardinal won nine of its final 13 in the regular season. There is no Pac-10 tourney.
This is a preview of Pack Baseball in N&O, not CHLT
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Monday Night Coaching Update
This morning the Charlotte Observer exhibited why their newspaper was so weak that they were recently purchased by a more thriving company - they have the hardest time drawing appropriate conclusions from facts and history.
Tom Sorensen’s opinion is pretty lame in his attempt to be cute. He also obviously has had some major memory failure of the first FIVE YEARS of Herb Sendek AND Less Robinson’s tenure when he tried to stir the pot with the following:
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