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 [...]
What About Billy?
Here’s a little something that ties in nicely with an earlier entry about Billy Packer. As Newsday columnist Neil Best wrote recently, Packer’s partner Jim Nantz stood up at a CBS press event and said if ESPN’s Dick Vitale receives a nomination to the Hall of Fame as a special contributor, then so should Packer. [...]
Swingggggg And A Miss!
- Might Casey strikes out. – Tiger hits one into the rough. – Michael Jordan heaves a brick. – “Wide Right” defines one of the key rivalries of the 90’s. AND……. . . . . . . . . . . – Frank Deford pens a pile of garbage. Even though Deford is one of [...]
Friday Bytes
Some quick bytes of current news: * Last night was good to the Wolfpack basketball team. South Carolina squeaked out a victory over Providence and Villanova mounted an awesome comeback to beat LSU. I watched some of the Nova-LSU game and was fascinated on the impact that good officiating had on LSU’s ability to build [...]
Jimmy V Coaching…Northwestern?
(Expect this to be on Pack Pride and The Wolfpacker’s Message Boards momentarily without a remote mention of us providing the link). From the Chicago Tribune via Sports Illustrated: Exceptional Tale: Valvano Wanted to Coach Northwestern
Vitale: Lowe One of Next Generation of “Great Coaches”
Link Though the Wolfpack has been on a roller coaster during this season, Sidney Lowe has gotten generally great reviews from the press. Dick Vitale heaped some praise today on Coach Lowe in his USA Today column: [Who] is ready to make a name big time? Some names to keep in mind: Karl Hobbs, George [...]
A Vitale Called Game
A tip of the hat to someone on Pack Pride’s message board, but they didn’t give proper credit for the find when they said, “I saw this somewhere else”. (That’s a lot more than some of the SFN generated stuff that ends up on the message boards without any acknowledgement that it was first seen [...]
Too Much Herb Too Ignore
It is all over the internet…so, it would be pretty stupid of us to just choose to ignore it. You probably know by now that Herb Sendek’s Arizona State Sun Devils lost AT HOME in their first game of the year against Northern Arizona last night. NAU had previously lost by 34 points to Kansas. [...]
Vitale & SI: ‘Give Sendek Some Time’
The broken record continues at State… …that is Arizona State now! Last week Sports Illustrated ran an (old favorite) article titled “Playing Catch-up” that focused on Herb Sendek’s current situation at Arizona State. (Two Notes: (1) We know about the “Dare to Believe” video and we promise that we will have more on it in [...]
Vitale: Lowe Returns to NC State
Chris Wright visited Raleigh this weekend for the NC State-App State football game — a sport and piece of the student experience that Georgetown cannot offer. By most accounts, the visit went great and a lot of Wolfpackers had the chance to see Wright at the game on Saturday night. Before Wright got to Raleigh [...]