A Brief History of Triangle Sports

The Hartford Whalers became the Carolina Hurricanes and moved to North Carolina in 1997. The Canes, as you know them today with a Stanley Cup and a current playoff window to potentially win another one, didn't instantly establish roots in the community. In fact, some fans outright dismissed the concept of hockey in the south and a good number of NC State fans resented having to share a new buildin...

Here's a mental exercise — imagine North Carolina, NC State, Duke and Wake Forest fans all chanting "ACC!” Not sarcastically, which is how folks do it today in reaction to SEC fans who pull for teams that aren't Alabama. No, actual pride in the "Big Four" and pulling for your rival to win against an outsider. Turns out you don't have to imagine it because that's how it used to be back in the 1950s...

For 35 years starting in the early 1980s, former WRAL sports anchor Tom Suitor was the host of “Football Friday”. The high school football highlights show was a trailblazing program that continues to grow in reach to this day and set the standard for high school football coverage. For his contributions to high school sports through "Football Friday" and the Extra Effort Award, Suiter was inducted...

Let's take it back to 1982. North Carolina has Michael Jordan and Dean Smith. Woody Durham yells "thrown away to Worthy" and the Tar Heels win the NCAA championship. Then the following year in 1983, Jim Valvano and NC State become legends of March Madness. Can you imagine what it would've been like on sports talk radio back then? Wait, was there even sports talk radio back then? Yes, but not like...