Author: Dane Huffman

Posted in The skinny

ACC’s Swofford addresses how to attack rogue agents

John Swofford, with his history as a player and later athletics director at North Carolina and now the commissioner of the ACC, has a long…

Continue Reading

The story behind how Bill Cowher met his wife

Kaye Cowher died Friday from skin cancer, and I can’t tell you how deeply sad that makes me feel. I remember being in Pittsburgh in…

Continue Reading
Posted in The skinny

Make a list of the best N.C. State football players ever, and you can guarantee this – Dennis Byrd is on it. Byrd died Thursday…

Continue Reading
Posted in The skinny

Gosh, that didn’t work out so well …

Inside Carolina, which really does some great working covering UNC, has its football preview issue out … and all you can say is, Ouch.

Continue Reading

Robbie Caldwell lights up SEC media days

Remember Robbie Caldwell? He was the excellent offensive line coach for N.C. State under Dick Sheridan and Mike O’Cain and moved to UNC when O’Cain…

Continue Reading

Duke refuses to move Alabama game, even for $2 million

Big-time college football programs often “buy out” games against smaller schools, paying them to play the game elsewhere. And so the University of Alabama approached…

Continue Reading
Posted in The skinny

ECU helmet fetches $3,100, and Duke nets $3,000

I gasped Thursday at the Triangle Pigskin Preview event at the Washington Duke Inn when N.C. State athletics director Debbie Yow spent $1,500 for a…

Continue Reading

Hey look! It’s the Secretary of State!

The Buzz had North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall on the radio Thursday morning, and it’s an amusing story about how that came to…

Continue Reading

UNC’s Davis: Eliminate all contact with agents

University of North Carolina football coach Butch Davis sidestepped questions requiring specific information about the ongoing NCAA inquiry into the Tar Heels program. But Davis…

Continue Reading
Posted in The skinny

Butch Davis addresses the NCAA investigation

Butch Davis said he couldn’t comment on the NCAA investigaton but did say the NCAA told Carolina the investigation should ho quickly. “The NCAA has…

Continue Reading