Heard somewhere or read somewhere – can’t remember which – an insight that we should all wish that we have an experience of working tirelessly on a major project, putting in all the sweat time, giving all of ourselves into something, and then it falls apart and fails miserably. A complete flop, a disaster that […]
In college football’s capstone celebration for 2023, Sammy Sportface will be honored during the Wake Forest football game this Saturday at Syracuse. The hyper-opportunistic and self-absorbed sports blogger will be holding a three-day seminar teaching the esteemed Syracuse journalism students a new form of sports journalism aimed at increasing Facebook followers, piggybacking off your alma’s […]
I’m worried as heck about Georgia Tech, Wake Forest’s opponent this Saturday in football. There are several reasons for this angst. The first – and most emotionally disconcerting – is about the team’s coach, Brent Key. When he was introduced as the team’s new head coach last December, he said some things that seemed a […]
You won’t find — not in any of the 400 or so college football games being played this Saturday — players representing two more academically prestigious institutions of higher learning than Wake Forest University versus Vanderbilt University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. These two institutions rank in the top 10 percent of 443 “Best National Universities,” according […]
Everything felt new last night in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A new school year at Wake Forest has just kicked off. A new student body, all wearing black, ran through the endzone-area tunnel onto the field before the players. The football facility the team plays in has a new name, Allegacy Stadium. Even the 1972 song […]
Despite being honored as the Virginia Player of the Year in football his senior year of high school while earning a 4.1 grade point average, Taylor Morin wasn’t sure he was going to measure up when he entered Wake Forest University in 2019 as a freshman. “I had that feeling of not being good enough,” […]
Three games on the Wake Forest schedule have that extra sparkle. Before your Fall schedule gets too chock full, block time for these three football feuds. At the top of that list will be when the team travels to Notre Dame on November 18th to vie with their former star quarterback, Sam Hartman. Beloved by […]
Can you almost feel the Fall air in Winston-Salem, North Carolina? The sun shines bright and warms your skin. The tailgates with hot dogs and burgers, piles of Bojangles chicken breasts, and 12-packs of Dunkin Donuts, and refreshing drinks: Dunkin Donuts coffee with a splash of Bailey’s Irish Cream, an iced-down cold beer, or a […]
Every day during every week throughout the football season, we the fans of your team deal with our own lives. The work Zoom calls, the corporate bureaucracies, and the deadline pressures. The boss needs something done right away and it’s going to take a whole lot of our brain power to get it done. And […]