Courtesy of Bill Hass, from www.gsohoppers.com and former News and Record writer/reporter, we have a nice reminder for you here today…… Former Wake Forest QB John Wolford will get the start this weekend for the LA Rams after Jared Goff had thumb surgery. He’s well-known around here but not nationally. Here’s a nice link to an espn.com story that tells a lot about him. (Here’s hoping that Jon Wolford has a better go of it, than Kendall Hinton had, with the Denver Broncos.) CLICK HERE for the full article at ESPN.com…Article from Lindsey Thiry, with ESPN.com….. John Wolford is now…
Courtesy of Iliana Limón Romero at ilimon@orlandosentinel.com/www.orlandosentinel.com (Orlando Sentinel Sports, and home of Jay Reddick, former sportswriter/desk reporter for the News and Record.) The Florida State at Wake Forest regular season finale scheduled for Saturday afternoon has been canceled due to a COVID-19 positive test among the Seminoles. The ACC announced Friday/today FSU registered a positive test result. Subsequent quarantining and contact tracing left Florida State without enough offensive linemen available to play. Roster numbers that can trigger cancellation of games were set during the preseason by the ACC Medical Advisory Group. This is the fourth game called off for…
Quarterback turned Receiver turned Quarterback from Jordan Stowe, with a Special to GreensboroSports.com If you have not already heard the remarkable story of Kendall Hinton that has been all over the news media since Sunday, allow me to tell you. Kendall Hinton was born and raised in Durham, NC. He played Quarterback for Southern High School there. He signed an early letter of intent to play football for Wake Forest University in his Junior year at Southern. While also at Southern he was honored as Team captain as a senior … Rated as a three-star recruit by 247, ESPN, Rivals,…
from www.godeacs.com: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest has notified the ACC and Duke University that the Demon Deacons will not be able to play on Nov. 21 due to a combination of positive cases, quarantine of close contacts and injuries. In abundance of caution, Wake Forest will not hold team activities or practice on Wednesday and Thursday. “Our number one priority is the health and well-being of our student-athletes, coaches and staff,” Director of Athletics John Currie said. “I’m so proud of how our team has faced the unprecedented challenges of 2020. We are blessed with world class medical care…
Final Score from Wake Forest-Campbell game:Wake Forest 66, Campbell 14….Score was much larger than we could have imagined, but we did get the Campbell total score, right on the money in our pregame prediction….Wake now (1-2) and Campbell closes out their 2020 season, at (0-4)….Christian Beal-Smith, from East Forsyth High School, with 130 yards rushing and 3 TD’s for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons…. Tonight’s game will be played at Truist Field in Winston-Salem, N.C., the field formerly known as BB&T Field, and as Groves Stadium…Wake Forest vs. Campbell University, and Wake wins this one by 28 points…Final score, Wake…
Duke’s Mayo Classic between Wake Forest & Notre Dame Postponed from www.godeacs.com: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Saturday’s Duke’s Mayo Classic at Truist Field has been postponed, and will not be played on Sept. 26. Wake Forest and Notre Dame will work with the Atlantic Coast Conference to monitor dates throughout the season to potentially make up the game. “Jack Swarbrick called me a short time ago to let me know of their situation,” said Wake Forest Director of Athletics John Currie. “I know everyone involved is saddened to be unable to play this weekend, but based on the circumstances it is…
**********Two Huge games at home in September for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons…Wake now hosting both Clemson and Notre Dame, but with NO FANS, but the TV crowds should add up to some very large numbers…..********** Winston-Salem hosting Wake Forest football game against Notre Dame from www.wxii12.com…Be sure to see more on WXII TV 12 News at 5, 6, and 11pm, with Kenny Beck…You can also catch Kenny on the WXII TV 12 News at 10pm, on the Triad’s CW 20….. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —Wake Forest said Wednesday its Sept. 26 football game against No. 10 Notre Dame will move from…
Nine Deacons headed to the NFL Courtesy of Jordan Stowe, Wake Forest University Athletics researcher and reporter for GreensboroSports.com… Coming off an incredible season for the Deacs, nine football players are heading to the National Football League. Justin Strnad will be headed to Denver. Justin Herron will be heading to the Brady-less Patriots. John Benzinger will be beating it up in Arizona for the Cardinals. Kendall Hinton, which I’ll talk about further down, will also be going to the Broncos. Amari Henderson will be soaking up the sun in Jacksonville with the Jaguars. Scotty Washington will be catching darts from…
from www.wfmynews2.com: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest reserve quarterback Kevin Sousa has been suspended from the football team indefinitely for a violation of team rules. Sousa was a redshirt junior from Orlando, Florida. CLICK HERE to read more/see more from WFMY NEWS 2.com…..
WAKE FOREST AT Louisiana Monroe tonight 7pm Good friend of our site, Dave Goren, will be roaming the sidelines again this season for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons…Goren(WXII 12/National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association) will be a part of the Wake Forest football broadcast team with Stan Cotton and new team member, analyst Tom Elrod..You will be able to hear the games again this season on 98.1FM WBRF Galax, Virginia and on AM1400 WKEW in Greeenboro…98.1FM is the flagship station for Wake Forest athletics…. more news on Dave and the crew/team, see below courtesy of Wake Forest Athletics: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. –…
When asked if he regrets not taking the Nebraska job, Jim Grobe doesn’t hesitate. “I do now, I didn’t at the time,” he said. “I honestly took great pride in Wake Forest. I had some really good friends there. I trusted some people there. I thought Wake was a little different than other schools. I really, at the time, felt we were going to get a bigger commitment in terms of facilities and support for the program that never really materialized. We loved all 13 years we were in Winston-Salem, but I’m not real happy with the way things ended.”…
Dave Goren is now Adjunct Instructor at High Point University…. Dave was the Sports Director for WXII TV 12 for many years and has most recently been in charge of pulic relations for the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in Salisbury, N.C., plus he is the analyst for Wake Forest University football, working with Stan Cotton….
The word from ‘Country’ Dan Collins at the Winston-Salem Journal is that Wake Forest University is set to hold a press conference on Tuesday and at that time, they will name Davd Clawson their new football coach… Clawson will replace Jim Grobe, who stepped down after 13 seasons at Wake and his departure took place last week… Clawson has experience as a head coach at Bowling Green and he led his team to Mid American Conference title last week…Clawson has been at Fordham, Albany, Buffalo, Tennessee, Richmond and other stops along the way, as an assistant and as a head…
from ‘Country’ Dan Collins with the Winston-Salem Journal, by way of the News and Record on-liine, at www.news-record.com WINSTON-SALEM — Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe has resigned after 13 seasons at the school. Grobe announced his decision this afternoon at a news conference. “I don’t know what the future will hold for me,” Grobe said. “Once you’re a coach, you’re always a coach and you want to keep coaching.” “I feel like Ron (Wellman, the athletics director) will hire somebody good and it will be good for our guys.” Grobe, 61, finishes with a career record of 110-115-1 in a…
Michael Campanaro had 16 pass receptions from Tanner Price last Saturday and three of those catches went for touchdowns, in the Wake win over Boston College and this Saturday, the Demon Deacons and their outstanding receiver, will take their brand of Wake Forest winning football into Wake County, to face a downtrodden N.C. State Wolfpack squad, that might be on their last leg, under embattled head coach Tom O’Brien…. Wake(5-4/3-4) needs a win in a bad way, but State(5-4/2-3) has to have the victory, if they are to have any chance of making a bowl game this season… If you…
There have been arrests, there have been suspensions, Wake Forest football coach Jim Grobe is very concerned and he is very worried about the overall welfare of his team…. What is going to happen with this problem of marijuana possesion and use by the Wake Forest Demon Deacon football players??? One of our own from Guilford County, Airyn Willis from Southwest Guilford, has been caught up in this mess and he was among the six that were suspended right before the Maryland game, by Coach Grobe…. The word is Coach Grobe holds his players his players to a higher standard…
Tanner Price, the quarterback for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, passed for 3,017 yards in 2011 and he threw for 20 touchdowns…Wake went (6-7) overall and they made it to a bowl game and this season Wake’s junior QB will try and keep ‘The Price is Right Show’ rolling….Price is a young and unassuming kid and he is not cocky, but he has become more and more confident in his role as the Demon Deacon leader, as Wake gets set to host Liberty University on Saturday, in Winston-Salem… Read much more about this young Demon Deacon quarterback Tanner Price, when…
Congratulations to Dave Goren, formerly the Sports Director at WXII TV 12 in Winston-Salem, on being named the analyst for Wake Forest Demon Deacon athletics on the radio, with IMG Sports….Dave has been on the sidelines the past couple of years and now he moves up into the booth, to join Stan Cotton, who will continue to man the play-by-play call for the Deacs….Wake Forest/IMG has added WKEW-AM1400(Greensboro) to their list of affiliates, along with 610 WFNZ ‘The Fan’, out of Charlotte…..(Dave Goren replaces former Wake Forest quarterback/punter Chuck Ramsey who called the signals the past few Wake Forest football…
Just picked up another update today on the new Wake Forest football station in Winston-Salem and they have plans to bring back Bill Flynn(99.5/WMAG…94.5/RUSH Radio), plus “The Eagle” is looking to have newsman Smith Patterson(WSJS 600AM) in place and they may be considering a move to lock down J.D Higgins(98.1FM) and have him do ‘Calling Carolina’, his look at different roadside destinations across our fine state….Could Jack Murphy be coming on board later on??? He used to work for “The Eagle”, back when 107.5 used that moniker…. from Wikipedia.org as they look at WEGO 980AM: On July 4, 2012, new…
Don Moore was reporting by way of Twitter yesterday, that the Wake Forest Football games will be heading to WEGO Radio this Fall….980AM will be the ‘New Home of the Deacs’….. WEGO radio was playing Christian Comtemporary Hispanic music until today/July 4 and now as of Independence Day 2012, 980AM/WEGO radio has taken flight and become, ‘The Eagle’…. 980AM, ‘The Eagle’ will operate out of Winston-Salem, N.C. and ‘The Eagle’ will carry Wake Forest Demon Deacon football this Fall….The Deacs will back on Winston-Salem radio for the first time in many years…..Wake will still be on 98.1 WBRF out of…