It’s nice to see others have been inspired by NC State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow over the years! Per WRAL: North Carolina State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow won the inaugural Jimmy V ESPY for Perseverance on Wednesday. She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer while coaching the Wolfpack during this year’s NCAA […]
In memoriam
Friday frivolity: “GOOOOOOOOAL! ROD-NEEEEY! ROD-NEEEEY!” etc.
I found this on YouTube, and it’s too hilarious not to pass along: Longtime State fans will remember some of the wild shots Rodney Monroe made while at NC State, one of the best shooters the ACC has ever seen, and how he looked when he got in the zone. Well, here he is making […]
Happy Anniversary!
Really, nothing more needs to be said (but feel free to take a deeper look into some very interesting thoughts by clicking here). Just sit back and enjoy the most famous 44 seconds in NC State athletics history — and all the pandemonium that ensued afterward. Also, please pay close attention to Coach Valvano’s comments […]
The Valvano approach to the Final Four
I friggin’ love YouTube for finds like this, an ESPN preview of the 1983 National Championship game: Check it out. You’ll see glimpses of Valvano’s love for life, his passion for the game as well as his perspective about the relative importance of basketball in life, his pre-game instruction to “have fun” (something that the […]
Yow’s scrappy Wolfpack faces another No. 1
The only team in the country this year to defeat Duke and North Carolina is facing another giant: Connecticut. The NCAA tournament game between the fourth-seeded Wolfpack and the No. 1 seed UConn tips off tonight at 9 p.m. NC State coach Kay Yow continues her inspirational battle against stage-4 breast cancer. The News & […]
Kay Yow, inspiration
I’m embarrassed to admit, but I write this post in shock and sadness. I had not realized, not until reading an article in The New York Times (of all places!), just how serious NC State women’s basketball coach Kay Yow‘s cancer had progressed. The hall-of-fame legend who once coached the Olympic women’s team is at […]
ESPN: What we learned in Tampa
I’m going to tease with Bomani Jones’ second lesson first before delving into the real meat of this piece. Here is that second lesson: “The nation should be glad NC State didn’t make the NCAAs.” Jones praises NC State and Sidney Lowe highly here:
Media naysayers (and Lee Fowler): Come and get some more crow!
For every last one of you who said it — and you jackasses know who you are, and so do we — NC State fans are delusional if they think they can expect to compete against Duke with Coach K and UNC with Roy Williams! What coach is going to want to go there?
Dunking UNC
Here’s that dunk compilation you know you’ve been waiting for: (For game comments please go to Spin’s great guest piece, “Get It Back.”)
