SportsChannel8: The Radio Show brings you the best (or worst) in North Carolina sports and beyond, all in two hours. You can listen every Saturday morning from 10am to noon on 99.9 FM The Fan or WRALSportsFan.com. You can check out past shows and interviews right here. We’re back to our 10am-noon time slot! And there’s a train stuck… Read more »
Author: Hayes Permar
Media Musings: Wes Durham, The Mayor of the ACC, Stays Busy
By R.L. Bynum Hectic travel schedule the norm for Wes Durham When football and into basketball seasons overlap, it’s always a crazy time for college beat writers. None of them deal with the airport-hopping madness that Wes Durham, the unofficial Voice of the ACC, experiences. He’s a sports broadcaster with many hats, and that… Read more »
Media Musings: GametimeNC is here. What is it?
By R.L. Bynum Experimental project offers plenty of high school sports coverage Newspaper readers aren’t getting the volume of high school sports coverage as before and some have all but eliminated from their budget money for stringers to cover games. Filling some of that void in both cases is Gametime NC. It’s an experimental project… Read more »
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show, 11/3
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show brings you the best (or worst) in North Carolina sports and beyond, all in two hours. You can listen every Saturday morning from 8am to 10am on 99.9 FM The Fan or WRALSportsFan.com. We tackle Halloween candy in Rightly Rated (including Whoopers), plus talk about the best Halloween costumes we saw. Plus: a local… Read more »
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show; 10/27
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show brings you the best (or worst) in North Carolina sports and beyond, all in two hours. You can listen every Saturday morning from 8am to 10am on 99.9 FM The Fan or WRALSportsFan.com. We hope for a week of big road wins for our Triangle football teams (spoiler alert: it didn’t happen) and discuss… Read more »
Raleigh City Sports, Ep. 74: Austin da Luz Reviews the Sandlot and Mighty Ducks
Raleigh City Sports is the premier podcast covering NCFC/NC Courage, though they discuss Hurricanes, ACC and all things Raleigh as well. Podcasts feature some combo of Fitz, Mike, and Ryan and usually a guest or two, often an NCFC/Courage player. You can check them out at Raleigh City Sports dot com. Austin da Luz joins and we… Read more »
Cheaters Never Win: 10 Game Edition
SportsChannel8’s Carolina Hurricanes coverage is led by the guys from Section 328, season ticket holders who make noise, tailgate, follow, and discuss the Canes as well as anyone does it. We’re thru 10 games and the Canes aren’t bad. In fact, dare we say it, the Canes are not crappy. This week we discuss the great… Read more »
From Zebulon to LA: Mudcats Mini-Umpire Vincent Stio Headed To World Series
Not many prospects go from single-A ball to the World Series in one season, even fewer do it before completing elementary school. But Vincent Stio is about to do just that. That’s right, the mini-umpire who started calling games from the stands at Carolina Mudcats games a few years ago will be on the field… Read more »