Tag Archive | "internet"

Wolfpack Sports Marketing Goes After PackPride Message Board Poster

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Wolfpack Sports Marketing Goes After PackPride Message Board Poster

Not a lot of time to post today, but it looks like Wolfpack Sports Marketing is really upset with some posters on PackPride.

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Agreeing with the Blogosphere

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Agreeing with the Blogosphere

You have probably noticed a little less activity on the front page of the blog in recent days. We encourage you to remember that we are supporting our new message boards with a little more depth and breadth of topics as opposed to diluting the front page of the blog. So, PLEASE help us out [...]

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Technician falls under the evil mind control of SFN, but some still resist!!!

Friday, June 12, 2009

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Technician falls under the evil mind control of SFN, but some still resist!!!

Flashback: March 30th, 2006 from “Kennel Delivers Annual Communique To The Masses”: Dear Chancellor Oblinger, NC State is a Great University, and you are doing an excellent job building upon the strengths of previous Chancellors and taking us even further. Sincere thanks to you. [snip] Finally, I wish to state my personal support for whatever decisions you make. I [...]

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Costner says NorthStar Basketball Blog ‘making stuff up’

Monday, February 2, 2009

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Update: Lowe Says He Hasn’t Talk To Costner About Costner’s Plans Sidney Lowe said in a press conference today that he hasn’t spoken with NC State player Brandon Costner about about leaving the team. “That wasn’t something I wanted to get involved in right now,” [Sidney Lowe] said. “We want him to concentrate on doing the best [...]

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Hmmm, Maybe The Power-That-Be Do Listen To Blogs

Thursday, October 16, 2008

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On May 14th of this year, over at my old site, Red and White From State, I made an entry that suggested something I thought that would look really neat at a home game: Something Cool That NC State Should Do At Home Games Most of us have all see the flipcards that make graphic elements in [...]

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The Wolfpack Wire

Friday, September 12, 2008

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Back when this team of authors launched the original StateFans.com over eight years ago, one of the practices that we originated was what we called the “Morning Webrun” where one of us would scour the internet for NC State-related articles and post them in a story so that our readers had an article to start [...]

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Audio from Tom O’Brien interview on 850 am (Updated 9:45am)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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Coach Tom O’Brien was interviewed on Adam’s Gold radio show today. This is the first time I have ever been to 850’s blog, so I must give them credit for its content. There is a lot of good stuff over there. Check here for the full audio. * ECU expects to have their best team ever. * South [...]

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Sam Jones Update (Updated 11:30 am)

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

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Yesterday’s entry regarding Sam Jones sparked conversations along a few different fronts. SFN has confirmed that a significant portion of the Sam Jones rumor is true. Jones and his family were surprised to recently learn that Sam must still pass an Algebra II math class to gain admission to NC State. He will take the class [...]

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Sam Jones thread mysteriously disappears from Pack Pride forum

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

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A member of the Pack Pride message board community posted a thread on the website’s free board this morning proclaiming that he/she had a personal relationship with the family of Wolfpack signee, Sam Jones and that Jones had failed to take an Algebra II class that is a requirement for admission at NC State. The poster [...]

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Raycom to expand web and television interaction; NC State officials dumbfounded, irate

Saturday, June 21, 2008

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Raycom Sports has entered into an agreement with another company to enhance its internet offerings during game telecasts starting during football season. (Link to article) CHARLOTTE – Raycom Sports is hoping to capitalize on sports fans’ growing multitasking.The syndicator has announced a partnership with Jacked SportsTop that will begin during telecasts of Atlantic Coast Conference and [...]

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Report: Tarheel Trio To Return Despite Criticisms & Attacks of UNC Fans

Monday, June 16, 2008

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Inside Carolina is reporting that Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green will all return to Chapel Hill for the 2008-2009 college basketball season, virtually guaranteeing that the Tarheels will hold the #1 preseason ranking as the heavy favorite to win the 2009 National Championship. Lawson, Ellington and Green had become the targets of significant criticism [...]

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Pack Pride vs The Wolfpacker

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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This is a topic that we have never discussed here on SFN and it is time to get it out there as my premium subscription to Pack Pride has recently expired and I cannot decide if I am going to renew it. I have severely limited familiarity with TheWolfpacker.com because of (1) my historical ties [...]

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Friday Morning: Lee Fowler on 850 The Buzz Friday; Audio Link Now Up

Friday, May 16, 2008

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Thanks to all of you who have posted 30 updates and comments regarding Fowler’s “interview” this morning. We’ll continue to have more commentary as time goes by. 11:15 Update Here’s a link to the audio of the interview: Lee Fowler Takes Your Calls (850 The Buzz’s Blog) My apologies if I wasn’t the smoothest reader on the [...]

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Fowler Makes His Performance a Public Issue; Sidney Lowe Q&A with Chip Alexander

Friday, April 25, 2008

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There is an awful lot of interesting stuff for a Daily Update for it be a random Friday afternoon in late April. SFN will definitely have a lot more on the topics included in this entry in the coming days, but we wanted to get this out there for your comments as soon as possible. Today [...]

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40,000 in 2017

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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In light of the fact that so many of our readers are pushing for this NC State Athletics blog to NOT discuss NC State Athletics, we wanted to try to find something of interest. So, we went back into our archives and found this interesting story from Technician that will bring us up to speed on [...]

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Are You on Facebook?

Monday, April 21, 2008

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I know what you more mature readers are asking and saying right now Facebook? Is this a joke? What college student has taken over SFN? Well, this is not a joke. After reading dozens of articles in the past year in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune and other business magazines SFN (and some [...]

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Where Amazing Happens…Happened

Sunday, April 13, 2008

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Tip of the hat to the Pack Pride message boards for highlighting this fantastic YouTube Video titled, “Where Amazing Happens – NC State”. Without explicitly stating it, this video provides a damning commentary of the current nature of the NC State athletics program as the bulk of the actual achievements in the video all took [...]

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Wake QB Riley Skinner: Selling Naked Photos on the Internetz

Monday, January 28, 2008

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Rumors are flying around Wake Forest’s campus and multiple national internet communities that Demon Deacon QB, Riley Skinner, thought it would be a good idea to let someone take some naked photos of the “rising” star. Free free to give us feedback in the comments section on what should be the title of this blog [...]

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SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted to take [...]

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I doubt that NC State has a Ranger65

Friday, July 20, 2007

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The bizarre nature of the recent revelations of internet postings of Whole Foods CEO, John Mackay reminded me of something that I noted back in December but had never run on SFN. If you aren’t familiar with the Mackay case – the public company’s CEO used an anagram from an alias for nearly eight years to [...]

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