Dan Dakich was on the Mark Thomas (99.9 The Fan) show today and, we learned two things: he really likes Karl Hess a lot, and he doesn’t care if State fans and players dislike him. We also learned that, based on his response, Dakich clearly doesn’t know Hess was in fact reprimanded by the ACC […]
Media
N&O to charge for digital content starting Dec 19th
We talk about the media a lot at SFN, and the decline of the ‘old media’ is of a lot of interest to us. With this said, we though the the recent news that the News & Observer will start charging for digital content on December 19th would be of some interest. It will be […]
State-UT most watched game in ESPNU history
We’ve already posted some statistics that have grown out of the NC State – Tennessee match-up from last Friday night. But, last night I ran across another number while stumbling through some Tweets in my timeline. Check out this link to ‘ESPN Mediazone’: ESPNU averaged 1,491,000 viewers (based on a 1.3 rating and 945,000 households) […]
ESPN arroves fashionably late…but still arroves
If you need help with the title of our entry please click here and do a little surfing. Dana O’Neil at ESPN.com comments on what we here in NC have known for many, many years…the NCAA and UNC are baloney The University of North Carolina has essentially admitted that dozens of courses taught by African-American […]
Statistical example of ESPN’s sports coverage
Want some great blend of depth and breadth of credible, legitimate sports news and coverage in your primary sports media source? I know this isn’t revolutionary insight for you…but, you probably need to look somewhere other than the ‘world wide leader’ – ESPN. For support of the previous statement, you should follow this great work […]
Saturday Morning Webrun
There’s been lots of NCSU-centric stuff in the news the past few days. Let’s start off with football: Wolfpack Football N.C. State rebuilding linebacker corps – Sammy Batten (fayobserver.com) RALEIGH – The N.C. State Wolfpack knew it would need a replacement for middle linebacker Audi Cole when the 2011 season ended last December with a […]
ESPN’s Schlabach – 2012 Wolfpack in Top 25
After Alabama’s dominating win over LSU Monday night, college football withdrawal had already begun. Thus, I began reading Mark Schlabach’s Way Too Early Top 25 for the 2012 season. As I finished the Top 15 without seeing Clemson, I started hoping to see NC State somewhere. Lo and behold: 24. NC State Wolfpack: After a […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
October 12, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Akula Wolf (BackingthePack.com) Mike Archer Forgot How To Coordinate Again As the defense struggles to stop anybody with a pulse (though I don’t love their odds against a team of zombies either), it’s no surprise that Mike Archer is back in the crosshairs. I hope he was able to […]
MooU and the N&O allies?
About six weeks ago I argued that as the vaunted “Carolina Way” has been widely and publicly deconstructed, “the average Carolina fan has responded not with outrage but instead with passive indifference.” And today, Duke Basketball Report (the enemy of my enemy is my friend) compiled a few of the more classic responses on FireHoldenThorp.com, […]
Bob Orr, Colossal Jackass
The UNC football program’s public, clownish implosion has provided us with so much sweet, sweet schadenfruede that it has its own SFN category. Neat, huh? It’s almost to the point that nothing can possibly surprise me anymore. And I only say “almost” because of the surreal idiocy and chutzpah spewed by former NC Supreme Court […]
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