NC Central at Duke Duke welcomes the Eagles into the freshly renovated Wallace Wade stadium: Duke, unfortunately, lost Thomas Sirk before the first game as he re-injured his Achilles: But that’s OK, because they have Jela Duncan and Daniel Jones who basically set NCCU’s world on fire in the first quarter: Duke takes a 49-0… Read more »
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Stat Boi’s Track of the Week: Vince Staples “War Ready”
Football is back! Yay. That was quite the opening weekend; of course we’ve got you covered with all of the recaps, takeaways, gifs and SEC schadenfreude your heart desires. Other than Bama (shocker), wow, are they bad, which fills me with joy and happiness. If you’re in the market for a song/album/whatever to bridge the gap from… Read more »
How to act at work: Week 1 in NC football
Football is back! Even more importantly, however, “How to act at work” is back! The workplace is the most diverse place in North Carolina, partially because our governor doesn’t have jurisdiction over private business, but mainly because every office has fans of every team working together closely. There’s nothing like a North Carolina office after a… Read more »
Jabari Parker would like a moment of your time (possibly to dunk on you)
The Milwaukee Bucks entered the 2015-16 season as a trendy pick to make the playoffs for the second straight season. As far as team performance goes, though, well, the bus never really left the station. The Bucks lost 21 of their first 33 games. They finished the season 33-49 (one more win than the New York… Read more »
Wake Forest is here to save college football
College football is pretty good already. Dave Clawson’s Demon Deacons are just perfecting it. Ask any hardcore college football fan what they love about the sport and you’ll hear about the game-day experience, the high drama, or the excitement of watching tomorrow’s NFL stars play for the love of the game without the burden of having to… Read more »
Trump vs. Duke, Behind The Numbers
In its recently released national poll regarding the presidential election and other issues, North Carolina based Public Policy Polling included some head-to-head comparisons to more tangibly quantify where Donald Trump ranks among other unlikeable things (and before you accuse us of taking a political side, you’ll notice the same poll includes his numbers against Hillary Clinton, whom… Read more »
Recruiting and the Big Four (plus ECU)
Recruiting is the most significant vital sign for the health of a football program. Well, that’s not entirely true, but it certainly seems that way with the amount of money that programs pump into facilities and equipment designed to catch the eye of blue chip prospects. Head coaches are hired, and fired, based… Read more »
Triangle College Football Betting Primer
College football is right around the corner which means some people will try to become #rich betting on college football outcomes. We would never endorse doing such things but we understand it happens. Since we focus a lot of our coverage on the main triangle schools, we’ve come up with a little betting primer for… Read more »