NC State Athletics to Begin Season Without Spectators from www.gopack.com: RALEIGH, N.C. – In line with current state guidelines, NC State Athletics will begin its Fall sports without spectators through at least the month of September, Director of Athletics Boo Corrigan announced on Monday. “We understand this may be difficult news for Wolfpack Nation, but given the information available to us at the current time, we are making the responsible decision to begin our season without spectators,” said Corrigan. Sports included in this initial group are football, men’s soccer, volleyball and cross country. Additionally, tailgating will not be permitted for…
from the News and Observer, in Raleigh, N.C./CLICK HERE to read all…. N.C. State announced Monday that all athletic-related activities are suspended due to a coronavirus cluster within its sports programs. In a statement on its website, N.C. State reported 27 cases within its athletic department, and of those, not all are athletes. A cluster is defined by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services as five or more individuals. “Based on the information available to us, we are making the necessary and swift decision to pause athletic-related activities until we have additional information,” athletic director Boo Corrigan said…
from WRALSportsFan.com: North Carolina State University Police have issued a “no trespass” letter to former NC State football player Eric Leak and his wife, Emily, that prohibits them from stepping onto school property, the university said Wednesday. CLICK HERE to read all on this one from WRALSportsFan.com…..
Here they are for N.C. State coming in this afternoon from www.news-record.com: The inductees are: Genia Beasley (women’s basketball), Ted Brown (football), Everett Case (men’s basketball coach), Roman Gabriel (football), Tab Ramos (men’s soccer), Jim Ritcher (football), Julie Shea (women’s cross countrry, track and field), David Thompson (men’s basketball), Jim Valvano (men’s basketball coach) and Kay Yow (women’s basketball coach). The class will be celebrated at the N.C. State Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Banquet on Oct. 5 in Reynolds Coliseum. CLICK HERE to read all from News and Record….
*****They are going to be talking about one of these issues for many years to come and which one will stick? It may be one or the other, or it may be both….’Personal Fouls’ or ‘Personal Favors’?***** from Jane Stancill at The News and Observer in Raleigh….www.newsobserver.com…. In January 1989, news broke about the looming publication of a book called “Personal Fouls” that promised to chronicle wrongdoing in Jim Valvano’s basketball program at N.C. State. The allegations on the book jacket hit like a bombshell. Within days, the NCAA was looking into it. Within weeks, UNC system President C.D. Spangler…
Coming in from Caulton Tudor of the News and Observer(Raleigh) and the Charlotte Observer and what he has done, is give give us his Top Ten names of who should go in first, when they announce the inaugural group of N.C. State Hall of Famers… Tudor’s Top Ten: Ted Brown Tommy Burleson Everett Case Roman Gabriel Torry Holt Philip Rivers Ron Shavlik Julie Shea David Thompson Kay Yow Read all from Caulton Tudor when you CLICK HERE….
The voting will take place over the Summer and the first class of the N.C. State Athletics Hall of Fame will be recognized on October 5th…Who will be in that first class??? Many of the above that I have mentioned????(David Thompson, Ted Brown, Tim Stoddard, Kay Yow, Jim Valvano, Norm Sloan, Everett Case and others(Karl Hess) in that first class???) Ten get in per class, for the first three inductions and then they will level it down to 6 inductees per class, after that…. More on the N.C. State Athletics Hall of Fame from WRALSportsFan.com: The inaugural Hall of Fame…