Tag Archive | "internet"
Scout.com Message Board Serving Spyware Infested Banners
It is hard to believe, but it is true. Scout’s message board are serving banners ads that that launch spyware on your computer. Scout has known about the problem, but refuses to fix the issue. Here is a thread from InsideCarolina and one from PackPride.
Continue reading...Message Board Reactions on the UNC/NCAA investigation
Friday, August 6, 2010
I have followed message boards of different college programs around the country for almost 15 years(mainly NC State, UNC and Wake Forest). Message boards are often ridiculed by the print/television/radio media, coaches, athletic directors, and even message board posters themselves. While sometimes these forums are criticized for good reasons, in regards to major news stories [...]
Continue reading...We Told You The Truth, As You Can Now See
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
I don’t hate saying this, but: we told you so. It’s a simple statement of fact to say so out loud. For over a year, this website and its authors have dutifully reported stories told to us concerning Lee Fowler’s increasingly tenuous hold on his job in confidence — that is, “off-the-record, no names, but [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Sports Marketing Goes After PackPride Message Board Poster
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Not a lot of time to post today, but it looks like Wolfpack Sports Marketing is really upset with some posters on PackPride.
Continue reading...Agreeing with the Blogosphere
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Technician falls under the evil mind control of SFN, but some still resist!!!
Friday, June 12, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Costner says NorthStar Basketball Blog ‘making stuff up’
Monday, February 2, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Hmmm, Maybe The Power-That-Be Do Listen To Blogs
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...The Wolfpack Wire
Friday, September 12, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Audio from Tom O’Brien interview on 850 am (Updated 9:45am)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sam Jones Update (Updated 11:30 am)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Sam Jones thread mysteriously disappears from Pack Pride forum
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Raycom to expand web and television interaction; NC State officials dumbfounded, irate
Saturday, June 21, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Report: Tarheel Trio To Return Despite Criticisms & Attacks of UNC Fans
Monday, June 16, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Pack Pride vs The Wolfpacker
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday Morning: Lee Fowler on 850 The Buzz Friday; Audio Link Now Up
Friday, May 16, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Fowler Makes His Performance a Public Issue; Sidney Lowe Q&A with Chip Alexander
Friday, April 25, 2008
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. [...]
Continue reading...40,000 in 2017
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Are You on Facebook?
Monday, April 21, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Where Amazing Happens…Happened
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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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Monday, August 9, 2010
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