Tag Archives: Jim Valvano

ESPN: State’s ’83 Run

It’s always nice to highlight articles focused on NC State’s tradition. Pat Forde of ESPN pulls a great one out that is focused on the 1983 run to the National Championship. (Link) Don’t be misled by the title of the piece and the first part of the article – it is about the entire 1983 [...]

Happy 4th of July

You can click on this link for a host of July 4th multimedia links, or you can click on this direct link to YouTube to see Jimmy V’s speech (that we have also embedded below). On February 21, 1993, NC State honored the 1983 NCAA Championship basketball team in Reynolds Coliseum. Jim Valvano was working [...]

UNC Scandal

SFN to James Moeser: At Long Last, Have You No Decency, Sir?

by BJD95

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 [...]

Scandal Over, UNC Wants To Grow Athletics Revenue to $100 Million

by Alpha Wolf

You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]

UNC Administrator, to victim: “Rape is like football”

by StateFans

This is truly abhorrent. Many folks call The Carolina Way a myth — but it’s not. Believing a myth can be innocent, borne of ignorance. In fact, The Carolina Way is a giant, perpetuated lie that has bred a culture that believes no ethical or moral sacrifice is too great to ensure athletic superiority. The [...]

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