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 [...]
N&O to charge for digital content starting Dec 19th
We talk about the media a lot at SFN, and the decline of the ‘old media’ is of a lot of interest to us. With this said, we though the the recent news that the News & Observer will start charging for digital content on December 19th would be of some interest. It will be [...]
Why are NC State Fans Neurotic (a la UNC Scandal)
I always think it’s interesting that people claim NC State fans are so neurotic when it comes to their rivals, UNC. People like to claim, and some NC State fans have started to buy into it, that UNC doesn’t get any kind of special treatment. Of course not, it’s all in our heads! Luckily, recent [...]
Local media rushes to defend NC State against national hacks
Many props to long-time ACC sportswriters Al Featherson and Brett Friedlander for their latest columns that will be linked towards the end of this entry Also, our local radio guys like Dave Glenn, Joe Ovies, and Adam Gold have defended us all week as well. Maybe from now on the hosts won’t waste time on [...]
Why bowls will pick NC State over Maryland
Over the last few years, I am very proud of how accurate and insightful SFN’s bowl selection analyses and scoop have been. You may have noticed that SFN has not participated in bowl conjecture and speculation this year. Part of the reason for our absence this year is that our author team has been severely [...]
Did Butch Davis violate UNC player’s academic privacy!?
In the middle of the build-up and resulting excitement related to NC State’s huge win over Florida State on the gridiron last week, some of the ‘UNC-CHeats scandal’ got pushed to the side a bit. On Thursday afternoon, it was announced that a consortium of Triangle media outlets were suing UNC and some of its [...]
Tar Heel strategies coming to light; About that transparency…[6:10 Update]
I HATE that this came out on the late afternoon of State’s huge game with Florida State…but, we have more than five FSU-related entries on the front page of the blog and you can surf and read to your heart’s content. We are going to send the traffic on this to the Daily Tar Heel [...]
A Different View of Silence
I’m often amused by commentaries that wander along the path of facts, speculation, assumptions, and theories with the goal of reaching an ultimate conclusion. All too often, they get lost somewhere along the way and end up in Oz rather than at a logical conclusion. Caulton Tudor attempted this journey but got lost today as [...]
Caught in a lie? Little, Austin & others in Miami @ “Aquagirl Weekend” in May…not March?
“Oh! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” — Sir Walter Scott (Scottish novelist) Last night, SFN ran a fun story (linked here) focused on Marvin Austin’s pictures and tweets and is currently blowing up the internet with attention and traffic. Some of the pictures and comments served [...]
R&R: News and Observer Missing Golden Opportunity
If you listened closely, you probably heard an odd buzz floating through the air around the state of North Carolina yesterday. I know that I contributed to it. What you were hearing was the elevated voices of the collective non-UNC-graduates in the area expressing their astonishment with what greeted them in their Sunday newspapers (followed [...]