We wanted to make sure that you good folks knew about the newest developments on PJ Hairston’s excellent adventure to Durham and had a place to voice your thoughts on the matter. You can refresh a little by reading this quick piece… UNC’s top scorer P.J. Hairston charged with possession of marijuana (USAToday.com) According to [...]
Basketball: Offense & Defense
Joe Giglio and ACCNow are at it again!!! Here they go again putting together some great work and elevating the News & Observer’s credibility!! (potentially with some guidance from our own choppack…see our comments section) This morning Giglio offers some fantastic insight into both the 2008-2009 version of the Wolfpack basketball team and into Coach [...]
(8pm Update) State’s First Basketball Practice Doesn’t Make Hometown Newspaper
Say What? No Room for NC State Coverage? Saturday’s News & Observer told the world that basketball is back in style at Duke. At Carolina, Roy Williams relishes the role as the favorite. But, Sunday’s News and Observer somehow found room in today’s sports pages for an article about former UNC-CH quarterback Darian Durant’s play [...]
Charlotte Observer: Miami Back in Big East (Updated @ 12:45pm)
Sunday’s print edition of The Charlotte Observer included a few pages of college football coverage. 50% of page 17C was devoted to NC State Football with three articles – two of which had been run in the N&O and on ACCNow in the days before Sunday. The other 50% of page 17C was devoted to [...]
Changes Coming to N&O Sports Section
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 [...]
N&O to cut 10% of its news operation
Can’t help but find it a little ironic that on the same day that Jim Valvano’s basketball program of the 1980s got just a little vindication that WRAL breaks this story The News & Observer is preparing to lay off about 10 percent of its newsroom staff and will announce other cuts affecting its news [...]
The Larry Brown Final Four
“This is a nightmare for Roy Williams” — Billy Packer, 9:31 remaining in the first half with the score Kansas 33 UNC 10 “This game…is OVER” — Billy Packer, 7:31 remaining in the first half with the score Kansas 38 UNC 12 It would take a blind person less than a nanosecond to recognize the [...]
The N&O comes one step closer to “Understanding Wolfpack Fans”
It only took NC State’s hometown newspaper a couple of years for it to sink in, but it’s starting to sink in. First, a SFN Flashback to March 2005, in an entry entitled Understanding Wolfpack Fans, Part 1: Today’s myth I’d like to tackle is one that we see quite frequently in the winter. It’s [...]
Saunders Takes Bias to a New Level
When you expect someone to be incompetent and ultra-biased then it is nearly impossible for that person’s views or actions to cause a surprise. Therefore, when you consider that the N&O’s resident racist (Barry Saunders) found a way to reach new levels of incompetence and bias today then you wonder what is next out there. [...]
Pack Baseball in N&O, not CHLT
Seven ACC baseball teams made the 64-team NCAA tournament field announced Monday, with North Carolina one of four regional hosts from the league and N.C. State the No. 2 seed at the Austin, Texas, regional. Special thanks to News & Observer for sharing with the world that both Carolina and State made the NCAA Baseball [...]