I'm sad that the Queen has died, but I'm glad she didn't have to endure losing her final home game to UNC and then losing to them again in the Final Four.
Pretty much perfect comments from Bacot post-game. Pride for his team, shouts out his coach, then a tip of the cap to the legend Coach K. This guy respects the rivalry.
"My love for North Carolina. I mean, I love this school, I love these fans. I love everything about it and I would die for this school. I really would." - Armando Bacot
(with Roy in the background)
Neighbors, friends and I formed a group to run The Rialto. I'm really proud of the effort put in to get it done, and now we have a ton of work ahead to keep it great. I can't wait. Thanks in advance for all the support.
Joel Berry gets held, which leads to a turnover (easy call to miss in transition, BUT) Ted Valentine then refuses to engage Berry in conversation, literally turning his back to him.
Local news just ended. Games been over for an hour. I’m into NCIS New Orleans territory. I didn’t know there was an NCIS New Orleans. I got pulled into the tv.
So much good to focus on with the Pack women, but it's just incredible to think a 1-seed was treated like that. The people making the decision knew it was wrong and they did it anyway. That sucks.
I realize taking something off Facebook without fact-checking is dangerous, but thought this story on Clemson's band filling in for Wake at the ACC Women's Tourney was worth sharing.
Anyone want to watch hoops in Raleigh's oldest theater?
Throwing The Rialto bar open tonight and tomorrow, no charge. Just come check out the new lobby and watch some🏀
Reminder: before you offer an opinion as to whether folks in NC are over- or under-preparing for a hurricane, we need to know if you were here for Fran or not.
Everyone likes to be too good for a Food Lion but whenever I see the empty aisle pics (snow, hurricane, humanity crippling virus, etc) I head to my go-to tucked away Leo of Food and they've never let me down.
@DHPIV
Really? Life long, native Tarheel here … sorry dude, your “offenders” did NOT violate our local customs…. Once you squat, you own maybe a 50-75 foot radius… these folks are totally in the clear.
We're gonna PACK The Rialto again tomorrow for both the Women's and Men's games. We'll open around 2:45.
@joeovies
and
@giglio_OG
will be in the house. All ACC fans welcome. National college basketball writers not invited.
Before you hit send on that "overhyped" tweet, please know that there are water rescues still currently underway in NC, several major highways are impassable, and the water in already overflowing eastern NC rivers is still rising (and will for days).
And it's still raining.
How bad does the NCAA have to hate NC State that they'd keep them out despite the Pack having the biggest potential TV star of the tourney on their roster.
Tomorrow--hell it's probably even happened today--several unoriginal dorks will post a picture of a TV on an A/V cart in an attempt at engagement. Don't reward these people. Most of them never watched the ACC Tournament on a TV rolled in a classroom in North Carolina.
My takes:
-anyone whose immediate reaction wasn't concern for T and his future is kind of a jerk
-booing the Leaky ejection call is fine
-Bacot trolling with shades after the fall was crass
-T going out with friends is 100% fine
-T health update is awesome
Anything else?
"Who said that? Who was cheering for that ball to get in the bunker? Was that you?"
"You're done, buddy, you're gone."
A fan pulls for Justin Thomas' drive to get in a bunker. You then hear someone (Thomas' caddie? or course security?) identify him.
Dean in Raleigh speaking from the heart, which often results in the best answers. The silence before he answers how the country starts healing is....whew.
Kentucky's path to Final 4:
-Davidson
-Buffalo
-winner of UMBC/KState
-winner of Loyola-Chicago/Nevada
If Calipari doesn't make it to San Antonio, no endearing think-piece on him next March, ok guys?
I am pleased to inform you that I will Address the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border. Tuesday night at 9:00 P.M. Eastern.
Canes need a win tonight, so we're calling all Caniacs to join us at The Rialto!
-doors open at 6:30
-free admission
-
@rnd_brewing
Storm Brew on draft/in cans
-you and other Canes fans in Raleigh's oldest theater
#CauseChaos
Here's Ted Valentine talking to FSU fans (who, I believe were talking to Roy). Can't tell exactly what he says. Sounds something like
"Hey, we're doing you a favor, big boy, relax....Id like to see you try to get a Final Four banner"
cashier says: "I'm gonna flip the touch screen around to you...."
I hear: "New technology allows to shame you for not tipping, even on a donut I just handed you. All the preset tips are more than your meal. And everyone behind you in line will know you're a terrible person."
My Dad passed this week, and while it's both happy and sad to read my friends' memories of him as they send thoughts, it's messages like these that really knock me back. What more good can we do as humans than help other people when they need it? Help someone out today, for Pops.
A second draft congressional map is now out in NC, this one drawn by the state Senate. Fairly different from the one the House posted last night
#ncpol
#ncga
Not sure exactly who to thank, but wanted to let whoever at
@PackAthletics
/
@PackFootball
decided to play "12 o'clock Kickoff" at Carter-Finley yesterday that I was grateful and honored. Very cool for a kid from Raleigh who grew up going to games there.
Putting the gross term "illegal alien" aside, if Hahn had said "and amongst all the white supremacists in Tennessee" it would have been inappropriate and wrong, even if it's a fact that there are documented hate groups in Tennessee.
NC State has suspended its play-by-play announcer for referencing all the illegal aliens in El Paso during a score update for the El Paso bowl game. We suspending people for speaking facts now?
In North Carolina, when you want people to get the message you get the college hoops coaches to deliver it.
Who's the person/people from your state that the governor would tap to deliver a must-listen message?
On
@DavidGlennShow
just now: Davis Love III says he and his teammates at UNC introduced Michael Jordan to golf gambling.
Imagine being the person who introduced Picasso to paint.
Still dont understand why a station would play Christmas music all December and immediately switch back the 26th. Aren't a lot of people still doing Christmasy things throughout the Christmas-to-NYE stretch?
Keeps getting taken down on Next Door, but I think my views opposing gnome housing in upscale Raleigh neighborhoods are important. Please read.
#NoGnomeHomes
"By crowd"
Who is "crowd"? An individual (wrongly) has done this. But If RPD doesn't have a better idea of exactly who is responsible for the (wrongful) property damage, I'm not sure what the value is of tweeting it out.
I like poking my guy
@joshwgoodson
, but I'm right there with him: I'm gonna be legit pissed if NCSU is left out. They beat the freaking SEC champion. The NCAA CAME UP with the NET ranking, and if they use their own ranking, State is good enough to be in.
#WhatAreWeDoing