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Tough loss, on dealing with one — Valvano philosophy

If you’re a passionate fan as I am, who believes as Vince Lombardi does that “Show me a ‘good loser’ and I’ll show you a loser,” it’s good to keep this Valvano advice in mind: Jimmy V says he’ll allow his players 24 hours to feel sorry for themselves and curse the basketball gods. Then, [...]

Good Luck, Clemson

The Clemson Tigers take the field tonight in the Chick-Fil-A bowl in what I think will be the ACC’s ‘defining’ bowl game of 2007. The Tigers game tonight against Auburn will only count as one game – the conference is currently a respectable 2-1 in bowls thusfar – but the magnitude of this battle with [...]

The End of V Week

Business and other responsibilities kept us from focusing very much on Jimmy V Week…so, we thought that we would link to this entry. Additionally, you should check out the Hoop Dreams program over at Duke. CBS ran a feature on this program in March of 2005 and I started an entry that I never finished, [...]

V and DT Transcended Rivalry

A nice find from a couple of weeks ago that we failed to link. Link For example, Sumner says, Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and former UNC coach Dean Smith aren’t the overall most popular figures in the Hall because some fans don’t like to acknowledge the accomplishments of their chief rival. But he says [...]

Kay Yow wins ESPY Award named for Jim Valvano

It’s nice to see others have been inspired by NC State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow over the years! Per WRAL: North Carolina State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow won the inaugural Jimmy V ESPY for Perseverance on Wednesday. She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer while coaching the Wolfpack during this year’s NCAA [...]

1986: V Interview on CBS

Every fan of every school has a cache of moments that are particularly special to them for some reason or another. Because the years of 1980-1985 were so forgettable…1986 came along for me at a time where I was definitely ‘old enough to remember’ while also being somewhat ‘blank’ as it related to NC State [...]

Happy Anniversary!

Really, nothing more needs to be said (but feel free to take a deeper look into some very interesting thoughts by clicking here). Just sit back and enjoy the most famous 44 seconds in NC State athletics history — and all the pandemonium that ensued afterward. Also, please pay close attention to Coach Valvano’s comments [...]

Bobby V Bridges The Past

Tip of the hat to a poster on Pack Pride. Really interesting stuff in this article by Bob Valvano. The following is just the beginning excerpt of the piece: It is the late 1960’s and the college coach gets a call from his brother, who is a high school coach. The call concerns a player [...]

The Valvano approach to the Final Four

I friggin’ love YouTube for finds like this, an ESPN preview of the 1983 National Championship game: Check it out. You’ll see glimpses of Valvano’s love for life, his passion for the game as well as his perspective about the relative importance of basketball in life, his pre-game instruction to “have fun” (something that the [...]

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

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Tough loss, on dealing with one — Valvano philosophy

Good Luck, Clemson

The End of V Week

V and DT Transcended Rivalry

Kay Yow wins ESPY Award named for Jim Valvano

1986: V Interview on CBS

Happy Anniversary!

Bobby V Bridges The Past

The Valvano approach to the Final Four

Jimmy V Coaching…Northwestern?

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