Perhaps some of you got the same e-mail I did recently from GoPack.com about their latest Rivers/Holt auction item.
Nevermind that “Rivers to Holt†seems a bit silly to me considering Philip and Torry never played together. But is it too much to ask for the official athletics website to correctly spell the name of our mascot?
NC State has cracked the Top 20 in most national baseball rankings on the heels of sweeping Boston College this past weekend to advance to 30-13 overall and 15-8 in ACC. The Wolfpack’s relative regular success in the nation’s most difficult baseball conference provides NC State fans with a slight glimmer of hope that NC […]
The table below that can be seen in larger a format by clicking here ranks Atlantic Coast Conference institutions by the number of ACC Championships claimed since 2000 (the year that Lee Fowler came to NC State). Additionally, the italicized numbers in parantheses is the rank for each school in the designated column. For example, […]
In 2006, the Atlantic Coast Conference produced seven of the first fifteen selections in the NFL Draft en route to setting the all-time record of first round draft choices from a single conference with twelve. Additionally, the ACC generated 25 of the 97 selections on the draft’s first day and had 51 total players selected […]
NC State’s DaJuan Morgan was chosen by Kansas City with the 82nd selection (3rd round) in today’s NFL Draft. See Morgan’s page on NFL.Com by clicking here. Ironically, Tank Tyler was chosen by the Chiefs with the 83rd selection last year. Analysts widely praised the Chiefs’ selection on the first day of the NFL draft […]
No wonder Lee Fowler was so defensive last night as discussed in this entry, the news just keeps getting worse. The men’s teams at the two national powers(UNC & Kansas), which met in the Final Four earlier this month, were included among 712 Division I squads singled out by the NCAA for their solid academic […]
There is an awful lot of interesting stuff for a Daily Update for it be a random Friday afternoon in late April. SFN will definitely have a lot more on the topics included in this entry in the coming days, but we wanted to get this out there for your comments as soon as possible. […]
Just yesterday the N&O ran a Q&A with Tom O’Brien so today’s article focused on Elliot Avent in Technician fits nicely into the week. Avent has coached at NC State for 12 years and “has compiled 443 victories, second-most in Pack history.” Whenever the media talks in total number of wins and not winning percentage […]
In light of the fact that so many of our readers are pushing for this NC State Athletics blog to NOT discuss NC State Athletics, we wanted to try to find something of interest. So, we went back into our archives and found this interesting story from Technician that will bring us up to speed […]
The Atlantic Coast Conference hosted a series of Championships this weekend that provided 33% of Atlantic Coast Conference members an ACC Championship when: * Florida State won its FIRST men’s golf championship * Virginia won men’s tennis * Clemson won the women’s tennis championship * Duke won women’s golf Additionally, we haven’t yet taken the […]
