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...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...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 decisions you make. I [...]
Continue reading...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 the best [...]
Continue reading...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 elements in [...]
Continue reading...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...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 ever. * South [...]
Continue reading...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 class [...]
Continue reading...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 poster [...]
Continue reading...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 and [...]
Continue reading...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 criticism [...]
Continue reading...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, 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 on the [...]
Continue reading...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. Today [...]
Continue reading...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 on [...]
Continue reading...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 some [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 28, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 2, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 20, 2007
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 [...]
Continue reading...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
33 Comments