Bad news for N.C. State
posted by LW, Monday, June 29, 2009
But then, N.C. State's Nate Irving is probably just glad to be alive after a nasty car accident early Sunday morning.
Irving suffered a broken leg and collapsed lung and was taken to Wake Med Trauma Center, according to a statement released by the school. He was scheduled for surgery Sunday night.
Irving was cited with careless and reckless driving, according to a state highway patrol report, after a one-vehicle crash at 4:40a.m. near the 314-mile marker on Interstate 40.
Good Sunday piece by The State's Bob Gillespie, who managed to tell a compelling story on William Perry without talking to William Perry (The Fridge is a noted recluse).
In The Post and Courier, Travis Sawchik manages to get beneath the surface of Billy Napier. The conclusion: Napier works pretty hard.
Ask Napier for a road map to coordinatorship at 29, and he says it's simply a matter of starting early, benefiting from being a coach's son.
"I've been planning on being a coach since I can remember," Napier says.
His father, a high school head coach, remembers the path starting before Napier's first start, a night before a middle school scrimmage.
"Billy was so fired up, I found out afterward he stayed up all night," said Bill Napier, a high school head coach for nearly two decades at Murray County High (Ga.). "He just sat on his bed with his wrist bands around his wrists going over this and that in his head. He was so excited it was impossible for him to turn off the lights and go to sleep.
"It was a kind of a preview of his intensity."
Bart Wright has a column on former Clemson golf star John Engler.
Engler's greatness and promise were washed away in a horrific 2003 car accident, but he considers himself fortunate to be still breathing.
The cruel twist was that while his swing came back just fine, Engler's ankle doesn't allow him to walk the course, a requirement for playing professionally.
“I'm just so fortunate to be alive, I don't have time to worry about the other stuff,” he said. “I don't remember anything about (the accident); I remember being in the hospital later, so I have to think if those people wouldn't have come along, I'd be dead.
“Who knows?” he said. “Maybe there will be a miracle discovery, some artificial cartilage or something that would help me walk better, but I'm not counting on it. I'm just happy to be alive and doing what I can do.”
Interesting story here on Arizona Wildcats athletes, who will be required to set their Facebook pages to private.
In the past, the UA had simply warned athletes to try to be smart on social-networking pages, eschewing any notion of banning their use.
"What we have realized is there's a high security risk with some of our student-athletes … that are celebrities in the athletic world," LaRose said.
This edict might help some, but it's not going to eliminate the growing problem of athletes making fools of themselves on Facebook or MySpace or whatever. Most people already have their pages set to private, right?
At Rivals.com, a preview of Rich Rodriguez and Michigan.
At the New York Times, a preview of Maryland.
And in closing, after watching this despicable video you wonder how normal Michael Jackson would've turned out had he had a, you know, real father.
His kid isn't even buried yet, and he's hawking some Blue Ray video. Stay classy, Joe Jackson.
LW
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It's never good when the star of your defense suffers a broken leg two months before the start of the season.
But then, N.C. State's Nate Irving is probably just glad to be alive after a nasty car accident early Sunday morning.
Irving suffered a broken leg and collapsed lung and was taken to Wake Med Trauma Center, according to a statement released by the school. He was scheduled for surgery Sunday night.
Irving was cited with careless and reckless driving, according to a state highway patrol report, after a one-vehicle crash at 4:40a.m. near the 314-mile marker on Interstate 40.
Good Sunday piece by The State's Bob Gillespie, who managed to tell a compelling story on William Perry without talking to William Perry (The Fridge is a noted recluse).
In The Post and Courier, Travis Sawchik manages to get beneath the surface of Billy Napier. The conclusion: Napier works pretty hard.
Ask Napier for a road map to coordinatorship at 29, and he says it's simply a matter of starting early, benefiting from being a coach's son.
"I've been planning on being a coach since I can remember," Napier says.
His father, a high school head coach, remembers the path starting before Napier's first start, a night before a middle school scrimmage.
"Billy was so fired up, I found out afterward he stayed up all night," said Bill Napier, a high school head coach for nearly two decades at Murray County High (Ga.). "He just sat on his bed with his wrist bands around his wrists going over this and that in his head. He was so excited it was impossible for him to turn off the lights and go to sleep.
"It was a kind of a preview of his intensity."
Bart Wright has a column on former Clemson golf star John Engler.
Engler's greatness and promise were washed away in a horrific 2003 car accident, but he considers himself fortunate to be still breathing.
The cruel twist was that while his swing came back just fine, Engler's ankle doesn't allow him to walk the course, a requirement for playing professionally.
“I'm just so fortunate to be alive, I don't have time to worry about the other stuff,” he said. “I don't remember anything about (the accident); I remember being in the hospital later, so I have to think if those people wouldn't have come along, I'd be dead.
“Who knows?” he said. “Maybe there will be a miracle discovery, some artificial cartilage or something that would help me walk better, but I'm not counting on it. I'm just happy to be alive and doing what I can do.”
Interesting story here on Arizona Wildcats athletes, who will be required to set their Facebook pages to private.
In the past, the UA had simply warned athletes to try to be smart on social-networking pages, eschewing any notion of banning their use.
"What we have realized is there's a high security risk with some of our student-athletes … that are celebrities in the athletic world," LaRose said.
This edict might help some, but it's not going to eliminate the growing problem of athletes making fools of themselves on Facebook or MySpace or whatever. Most people already have their pages set to private, right?
At Rivals.com, a preview of Rich Rodriguez and Michigan.
At the New York Times, a preview of Maryland.
And in closing, after watching this despicable video you wonder how normal Michael Jackson would've turned out had he had a, you know, real father.
His kid isn't even buried yet, and he's hawking some Blue Ray video. Stay classy, Joe Jackson.
LW
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