Cullen Jones edged closer to a spot on the U.S. Olympic swim team Wednesday, finishing fourth in the semifinals of the 100-meter freestyle to advance to the final tonight.

N.C. State point guard Farnold Degand, who tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on Dec. 23, is on schedule to return to the court by the time practice starts in October, a team spokesman said earlier this week.

Offer football coaches anonymity and the candor flows. That's what Athlon did for its football preview magazine, which includes a scouting section from unnamed opposing coaches.

Unless you're Michigan, the easiest way to find wins — and build a program — in college football is to schedule Division I-AA teams. No one understands this better than the Big 12, specifically Kansas and Kansas State.

Les Robinson, former basketball coach and athletics director at N.C. State, is retiring as the AD at The Citadel.

J.J. Hickson, who has often said his dream was to play in the NBA, now has his chance — with the Cleveland Cavaliers and superstar LeBron James.

A misdemeanor charge of resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer was tossed out of court Wednesday when N.C. State assistant basketball coach Larry Harris paid a $15 fine for his speeding ticket, according to court documents.

J.J. Hickson, a 6-foot-9 post player who elected to leave N.C. State after his freshman year, is expected to be chosen in the first round. Where, exactly, in the first round? Good question.

Lorenzo Brown isn't ready to commit to N.C. State. Yet.

Given the opportunity, Marcus Stone proved he could play tight end on the college level. Now, he hopes to do it in the NFL.

If you thought the ACC was bad last year, or the year before, or the year before ... brace yourself for 2008. The league could be even worse, if that's possible.

When the ACC spring meetings begin Sunday at Amelia Island, Fla., discussions of expanded conference scheduling will not be limited to men's basketball.

Here's the perfect way to end a spring football game and have your fans buzzing with excitement: throw a Hail Mary pass on the last play for the winning touchdown.

The V Foundation for Cancer Research is making a $1 million award and teaming with N.C. State to establish the Jimmy V-N.C. State Cancer Therapeutics Training Program.

North Carolina will play Michigan at Detroit’s Ford Field and Duke will play at Purdue in next season’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge. But as expected, N.C. State will be left out of the made-for-TV event for the first time because it finished last in league play.

N.C. State's injury report for Saturday's annual spring game has enough names to fill an 11-man roster. At the top: tailback Andre Brown, who has re-injured the foot he fractured last season that kept him out of four games and limited him in the last two.

Two North Carolina women's basketball players were selected at the end of the first round of today's WNBA Draft, although the order is somewhat surprising. N.C. State's Khadijah Whittington and Duke's Wanisha Smith went in the second round.

GW women coming off win similar to NCSU's title game.

Jim Valvano died of cancer in 1993, at age 47. He was eulogized as a championship coach, as the man who led N.C. State on one of the most thrilling tournament rides in basketball history, coaching the Wolfpack to the ACC championship and the NCAA championship in 1983.

Ben McCauley's follow slam of Gavin Grant's missed shot, with barely one-tenth of a second left, gave the Wolfpack a 67-65 victory over the Demon Deacons at the RBC Center.