Tag Archive | "Media"
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 [...]
Continue reading...Caught in a lie? Little, Austin & others in Miami @ “Aquagirl Weekend” in May…not March?
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
“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 [...]
Continue reading...R&R: News and Observer Missing Golden Opportunity
Monday, July 19, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...SFN on TZ, Part Two now updated
Friday, May 14, 2010
Originally published on May 7, 2010 A truncated version of our interview on “The Sports Drive” with Taylor Zarzour aired today at 11:20. (Link to ESPNTriangle) We very much appreciate Taylor’s kind comments of the quality of the segment. The conversation was approximately 20 minutes and was edited to approximately 11 minutes. We have split [...]
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...Skip Holtz jumps ECU for USF
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Fascinating story developed in Greenville the last 24 hours…and the ‘main stream media’ took another punch to the face when ‘AOL’s Fanhouse’ – a blog platform that SFN was invited to join when it was first formed – is credited for breaking the news that Skip Holtz is leaving East Carolina for South Florida. Here’s [...]
Continue reading...Sunday Stuff – July 12th
Sunday, July 12, 2009
====> Please no Lorenzo Brown comments in this entry. Once we get over our devastation we will post its own entry. ====> Stud outside linebacker, Kendall Moore, of Southeast Raleigh choose Notre Dame over NC State this weekend. (Link to the story) This one hurts, as Moore would have been a fantastic complement [...]
Continue reading...Bob Holliday gone from WRAL-TV
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Folks around Raleigh might have known or recognized this recent development…but those outside of the Triangle would have no reason to know if they aren’t told – WRAL-TV5′s Bob Holliday has ‘retired’. His last broadcast was Friday night. The station is positioning the development as follows: Bob Holliday, whose thoughtful approach has marked his work [...]
Continue reading...Jamburger! Tom Suiter steps aside as WRAL anchor
Friday, December 5, 2008
One of Rocky Mount’s finest and perhaps the most liked local media personalities of our generation is stepping back from his responsibilities. From WRAL: On Dec. 18, longtime WRAL sports anchor Tom Suiter will emerge from the sports office in the back of the newsroom. As he briskly walks to the set, he will take [...]
Continue reading...ORLY? (Updated @ 1:20pm)
Friday, November 14, 2008
This sort of thing drives me crazy: unsubstantiated speculation that is 100% paradoxical to reality. From a (supposed) ‘professional journalist’: Fox/Goodman: 65 Things to Watch For This College Season Three ACC coaches — Maryland’s Gary Williams, N.C. State’s Sidney Lowe and Florida State’s Leonard Hamilton — are feeling a little heat to win. My guess [...]
Continue reading...WRAL: NC State and ECU play three times from 2010-16
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Several gems in this article, so make sure to read the whole thing. The following is really interesting: “We play them in ’10, ’13, and ’16, and we haven’t scheduled any further out than that,” said (Lee) Fowler. “We had more games over those six years and I think Skip (Holtz) and Terry (Holland) got [...]
Continue reading...Newsflash! Rutgers fans boo entire 2nd half (Updated Fri 10:50am)
Friday, September 12, 2008
BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! After booing on the kickoff of the second half of thursday’s game against North Carolina, Rutgers fans continued to boo on almost every play from scrimmage throughout the rest of the game. (Those fans that actually stayed and didn’t leave early to beat traffic) RUTGERS!?! This is same program that was [...]
Continue reading...ESPN.com: Carter-Finley 11th Toughest Stadium In The ACC (Updated 1:45pm)
Monday, July 14, 2008
It’s almost the official middle of summertime – about six weeks past Memorial Day and about six weeks until the start of the college football season - so it is obviously a slow time where college sports are concerned. Fall practices are still several weeks out, and it’s really too soon for the major media outlets to start covering [...]
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...Lee Fowler appearance on 99.9FM Wednesday morning
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
No…you read that headline correctly. One of the only Athletics Directors in the country to have his own television show needs to make another radio appearance. Update: You can click here to hear the interview. In addition to his regular column in the Wolfpacker magazine and the recent tour of the entire State of North [...]
Continue reading...Changes Coming to N&O Sports Section
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
I recognize the value in the synergies created by merging many of the duplicative functions created by having operations in both Raleigh and Charlotte; but, the N&O’s Sports Page had easily become the best part of the newspaper while the Charlotte Observer‘s sports page is rife with bias, off-base coverage and one of the worst [...]
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...UCLA Farks Overexposed Hopsbrough
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Courtesy of The Onion The Final Four is almost here. Which means a lot of things…and this year it means that the world will have the ‘pleasure’ of watching the most amazing college basketball player in history! With Rick Morrissey leading the charge in this fantastic article, we FINALLY have some other folks in the [...]
Continue reading...Billy Packer – Patron Saint of Objectivity
Monday, March 24, 2008
It was the rarest of rarities (aside from Wolfpack championships) – a long profile in Sunday’s N&O that seemed tailor made for me. There are tons of great anecdotes (don’t miss the “shard grabbing” story) – read the whole thing. But the overriding theme reinforces what I like about Packer – his near slavish devotion [...]
Continue reading...‘Signgate’ stupidity and the good old double standard!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Been traveling a lot. (No…not the Tyler Hopswalk kind of traveling) Busy with work. Only so many hours in the day to keep the blog updated. I was at the game last night. Saw the “disgraceful” (sarcasm) sign that the baseball player held up at halftime. Didn’t think twice about it. All I could make [...]
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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