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 [...]
Semi-Live Bowl Blogging from Blowing Rock
I am in a mountain condo on my blackberry, so don’t expect updates every 5 minutes or graphics of any kind. But I am ready and willing to sort of live blog today, for the last time in 2008. I feel really good about today’s game, which I fear means impending doom. 3:04 – Eugene [...]
ESPN: Video Preview
A nice two-minute look at our bowl game here. The PapaJohns.com really lucked out with its selections…Two of the hottest programs in college football Note McShay’s comments with 40 seconds remaining in the clip: Early in the year, remember, Mike Teal, the quarterback, was getting booed by his home crowd. May we do the pleasure [...]
Rutgers Back in the News; Grobe interviews for Auburn Job
Since we are playing Rutgers in a few weeks, there might be some NC State fans interested in what is happening with our bowl opponent: Rutgers president Richard L. McCormick told the school’s board of governors and trustees in an e-mail last night that he has asked Mulcahy to leave his position by the end [...]
Focus on Football
We’ve got some solid football items to digest today. Heather Dinich has ranked the ACC Bowl games in order of most entertaining. The Wolfpack vs the Scarlet Knights is a strong second on the list. It’s interesting a bowl that is not an official ACC Bowl and includes the ACC’s 10th team is ranked so [...]
5:45pm Update: NC State to play Rutgers in PapaJohns.com Bowl
Nothing different from what we have been sharing…official announcement will be out later… 5:10pm Update Our spies in Florida tell us that the Champs Bowl is going with Florida State, so this would mean that most of the rest of the projections of the conference’s bowl line-up should fall into place as previously projected. This [...]
Newsflash! Rutgers fans boo entire 2nd half (Updated Fri 10:50am)
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 [...]
Tarheels seek elusive road victory tonight
UNC-Chapel Hill’s overhyped 2008 football team travels to Rutgers tonight to battle the Scarlet Knights on ESPN. Although the ACC needs any and every win that we can get…the Tarheels really need this one in order to give them a As the News & Observer highlighted earlier in the week – Carolina hasn’t won a [...]