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• Well, That's Pretty Much That...

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  This is what it's come to for the Panthers? A one time Super Bowl contender was reduced to looking more like the 1-15 team of George Seifert than anything that resembles a John Fox team. In their final home game of the season and with' [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2006, 6:59am EST
  

• A Star is Born

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  If you play sports on the major collegiate or professional level in America, odds are that you're under a pretty strong spotlight. But there are degrees in everything and not all spotlights carry the same glare. There are certain positions that are more glamourous than' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2006, 8:54am EST
  

• Gravley's Thanksgiving Pig Pickin'

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  The ACC regular season winds down this weekend and for some teams it'll be a relief when it's over. NC State faces another rival for the 2nd week in a row in East Carolina. If the Pack players thought Carolina came after them, wait till they face the Purple and [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2006, 8:14pm EST
  

• Panthers Can Still Contend

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  The Carolina Panthers are above .500 after beating Tampa Bay last Monday night, but is this preseason Super Bowl favorite a contender for the postseason or just a slightly above average team that will struggle over the remainder of the season? How's that for a' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2006, 11:04am EST
  

• Gravley's Pig Pickin' T-minus 2

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  T-minus 2 weeks remain in the college football regular season and for Duke, State and Carolina that means the end of the season. Congrats to Wake Forest, ECU, NC Central and Appalachain State for having good enough seasons to have them extended to the post season. (ECU better get a [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2006, 3:46pm EST
  

• Fines a Weak Response

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  The NFL announced yesterday that both Tyler Brayton and Jerramy Stevens would be fined and not suspended for their behavior in Monday Night's Raiders-Seahawks game. The Raiders' Brayton got into a post play scuffle with the Seahawks' Stevens and the end result was' [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2006, 8:05am EST
  

• Gold: Taking a shot at Week 10

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  The late great Tug McGraw could have taught us all a few things. One day, as the Mets were having a team meeting in the early part of September in 1973, McGraw jumped up in the locker room and shouted “Ya’ gotta believe!”
  
  The Mets were 9 games under [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2006, 3:58pm EST
  

• Gravley's Pig Pickin' Nov 3

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  Is it already week 10 of the college football season?? How rough has it been for the triangle's representatives in the ACC? How about a combined record of 4 and 20...let me type it another way...four and twenty. It still stinks. Thank goodness for East Carolina, Wake Forest and North' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2006, 3:47pm EST
  

• Gold: The Hokie Pokey and week 9.

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  Okay, so Clemson isn’t going up to Blacksburg to prove to the world that they’re an elite level team.
  
  They’re still – in my mind – the best team in this league. But, Virginia Tech paid Clemson forward for all the crap the world’s been dumping on the Hokies [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2006, 6:08pm EDT
  

• Gravley's Pig Pickin' Oct 25

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  What an interesting week for football in the triangle. We begin with North Carolina hosting Wake Forest. How will the Tar Heel players respond to the firing of their coach?? Will they still listen to the lame duck coach or will they rally to win for Coach Bunting? Before the [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2006, 4:37pm EDT
  

• The Midweek Look at the League

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  Well, it goes to figure that as soon as you say something in sports...it goes the othere way. The last time that I managed to hammer out a post on the blog it was about Julius Peppers and the way that he was eating up [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2006, 7:42am EDT
  

• Peppers Crushing the Competition

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  The Panthers are back to being a playoff contender(Super Bowl? Easy...one step at a time) after running off four wins in a row. Yes, there is plenty to talk about in the wake of last weekend's win over AFC North-leading Baltimore and most of that' [...]
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  Posted: October 18, 2006, 6:59am EDT
  

• Gold: The Hot List (ACC Style)

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  Throw out the stats, forget your pre-conceived notions, these are the best teams and elements in the ACC.
  
  Best teams...
  
  1-Clemson...it's a shame they blew the game at Boston College. There aren't going to be a lot of unbeaten teams and the Tigers are an offensive machine.
  2-Georgia [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2006, 12:11am EDT
  

• Gravley's Pig Pickin' Oct 12

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  Wake Forest @ NC State
  
  According to Wolfpack defensive tackle Tank Tyler, after every practice the Pack breaks their team huddle with the chant of ACC champs and state champs. Chuck Amato still believes winning beating all of the in state schools on your schedule is a big deal...and [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2006, 12:02pm EDT
  

• Adam Gold: Put that in your hot seat.

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  Last night at Carter-Finley Stadium two things happened; NC State seriously found out that they have a quarterback that can not only win, but win under pressure. And, Florida State University was slapped completely out of their perch as the leader of the ACC.
  
  Not that the Seminoles can’t [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2006, 3:25pm EDT
  

• Running with Fast Willie Parker

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  I had the chance to talk to Pittsburgh Steeler running back, Willie Parker on my radio show this week. The Steelers are coming into Week Five of the season after a bye week and a loss to division rival Cincinnati before that. Parker is [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2006, 11:09am EDT
  

• Gravley's Pig Pickin' Week 4

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  It's a pretty thin deal around here for college football this weekend. Only Duke and Wake Forest are playing on the D-1 level. How about those unbeaten Deacs from Wake Forest. They are one of 16 teams in division one that are still undefeated. Here are some reasons why they' [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2006, 3:12pm EDT
  

• Tuesday Clean Up

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  Another week of the National Football League is done and it's time to sift through the rubble to find the nuggets of goodness as well as this week's Top 5/Bottom 5...
  
  -The Panthers might not admit it, but the season was basically saved [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2006, 9:46pm EDT
  

• Adam Gold: What's Not To Blame.

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  The football-watching world is not stupid. We know what's good and we know what's not. Right now, the ACC isn't good and we want to know why. You can blame it on recruiting, you can blame it on coaching, you can blame it on the football not being round, you' [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2006, 10:00am EDT
  

• 0-2 Panthers Find Smith Defensive

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  The Carolina Panthers find themselves staring squarely at the abyss this weekend. Well, maybe that's a little extreme, but when your team has started out 0-2 in a season that pundits are talking "Super Bowl"...0-3 would be a cataclysmic disaster. So, with that in mind' [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2006, 6:39am EDT
  

• Gravley's Pig Pickin' Week 3

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  Hello fans and welcome to week 3 of the college football season. I sure wish the ACC would have landed West Virginia instead of Boston College in the expansion process. The Mountaineers are great in football and have been a recent, yearly entry in the NCAA basketball tournament. Don't you' [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2006, 3:16pm EDT
  

• Wasn't expansion supposed to mean better football?

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  I think we’d all like to believe that the ACC is one of the elite leagues in the college football universe. But, if the first 15 days of the season tells us anything, it’s that our beloved league is going the way of Pluto in the college football galaxy.
  
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  Posted: September 15, 2006, 2:34pm EDT
  

• Tuesday Morning Clean Up

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  With Week One of the NFL season out of the way, it's time for me to uncluttered my little monkey brain with a few observations...
  
  -Do the Panthers know that there aren't two bye weeks in the season? Once again the Panthers have a team that begins the season [...]
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  Posted: September 12, 2006, 7:56am EDT
  

• Adam Gold's unofficial top 25

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  Now that we’ve seen a weeks worth of games, what have we learned?
  Not a whole heckuvalot, if you ask me. But, let’s delve into it anyway.
  
  There are a whole lot of people under the impression that NC State has no passing game (25), but I say that [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2006, 2:02pm EDT
  

• Pig Pickin' week 2

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  It was a pretty depressing week 1 on the local college football scene in Division 1. Duke shutout by Richmond!!! Rutgers running over Carolina!!! NC State's 36 yards passing!! Wake's Benjamin Mauk breaking his arm!!! ECU unable to slow the Middies attack. Thank goodness there's week 2 but I'm not [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2006, 10:32am EDT