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N&O.
N.C. State linebacker Nate Irving is recovering after breaking his leg in a car accident.
Irving was expected to undergo surgery Sunday night at WakeMed Trauma Center in Raleigh, where he was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
School officials said Irving suffered a broken leg and a collapsed lung in the car accident Saturday night. Coach [...]

I hadn’t realized just how short on bonafides at the guard spot the league is until I read BJD’s post on the subject earlier this week. I looked through the numbers from last year and didn’t find much in the way of breakout indicators. Mediocre track records abound. Some thoughts on a [...]

– Steve Spurrier Q&A from The State:
Q: Do you feel like in some ways your success is hitched to Garcia?
A: Dependent on Stephen, and all the coaches? Yeah, it’s dependent on all these guys. But like I’ve said, we just haven’t quite put the total team together yet. We’ve been competitive, but we haven’t put [...]

Sammy Batten:
Creecy is the second player making a pledge to the Wolfpack’s Class of 2010 who is regarded as the best in the state at his position. The two major recruiting networks, Rivals.com and Scout.com, both have Creecy and Chapel Hill offensive tackle Robert Crisp in their early list of the nation’s Top 100 prospects. [...]

Towards the end of this article, Tim Peeler mentions the Tigers as a possibility. I assume this potential game would be played in Raleigh since we probably don’t want to add another tough road trip to the schedule at this point.
Also in the article:
There will be challenges of course. With so few proven three-point [...]

Is Wake Forest headed for the bottom, or not? Let’s take a look at some of their issues going forward…
Wake [...]

NC State will open the 2012 football season in Atlanta against the Kiffin Family Circus.
“This matchup will continue the tradition of creating the Daytona 500 of college football,” said Gary Stokan, Chick-fil-A Bowl president. “I fully expect that in 2012 both of these rising programs will be ranked in the top 20.”
Although less than 300 [...]

– I’ve been hesitating to mention this, as I’ve yet to find anything about this in the traditional places, but it appears that Scott Wood injured his knee in the first half of an all-star game on Sunday. This per a couple of people on Twitter (I know, I know. But one does [...]

ACC Now:
One of the reasons the NCAA basketball playing rules committee last month didn’t recommend a painted arc to go along with the new “no charge” zone under the basket for “help” defenders was because it could have taken four years to institute a new painted line.
But when the Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved the [...]