Joel Bulkley
The first UNC pre-season hoops game (Oct. 24 at BYU in Utah) can’t come soon enough.
UNC has played in at least 40 states, according to chapelboro.com. They haven’t played a regular season or playoff game in ID, MT, WY, ND, SD, MN, NM, ME, VT, DE. Exhibition games don’t count.
The ACC basketball broadcast schedule was announced but some tipoff times and networks weren’t available. They include several dates in January when ESPN apparently has NFL playoffs (wild card, divisional games). UNC has games this season on The CW Network, a holdover from the old Raycom days, and one on ABC, Fox, FS1, plus the usual suspects.
Some columnists think giving coaches a challenge could speed up college games, getting them back under two hours. We hope.
Charlotte Hornet broadcaster Eric Collins filled in and provided the only bright spot in the Panther/New England NFL game for Fox, a lopsided loss for Carolina.
Brian Geisinger of Raleigh, a basketball analyst for Pack Pride, is now part of Basket Under Review network. He’s covering the ACC and previously worked for the accsports .com and ACC Sports Journal. BUR has a website, newsletter (free) and a podcast (paid). They started in July.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Paul Finebaum of SEC Network left ESPN to run for the Senate in Alabama where the senator there is running for governor? I wouldn’t miss him.
Charlotte-based library wholesaler Baker & Taylor is shutting down by year’s end after financial struggles, a failed acquisition and mounting operational issues, leaving hundreds of employees and library systems like Chatham County and Charlotte Mecklenburg scrambling.
Nearly 400 hours of historic radio broadcasts are returning to NCCU. It’s a rare collection of recordings capturing the voices, music and stories that shaped the history of the Black community in North Carolina. The recordings include original programming from the university’s WNCU 90.7 FM jazz station and comes at a time when much of the material created at historically black radio stations is at risk of being lost.
They were able to collect audio from cassettes and minidiscs and digitize it under a grant to HBCU schools.
Credit to the ACC for allowing ESPN access on how football replay reviews are handled, providing live audio between game officials on the field and ACC officials in the Charlotte operations center. They’re the first conference to do this.
Media Notes. Carrboro has a new free monthly. The Carrborean began in September and has news and local events. Editor/publisher is Jennifer Yourkavitch. Neal Robbins, publisher of the conservative North State Journal’s Chatham News & Record of Siler City, was named deputy undersecretary for rural development by President Trump.