Ten Candidates for NC State Football Coaching Search After Dave Doeren Firing The Wolfpack will have their pick in a low-key carousel, including an intriguing option in alum Philip Rivers. Sports Illustrated · Oct 24
2026 Week 8 FBS Game Summaries for Teams in West 2026 Week 8 CFB Game Summaries for Teams in the West: A brief breakdown of the key plays, stats, and momentum changes. SuperWest Sports · Oct 24
2027 NFL Draft: For the Chargers, It Should Be Jeremiah Smith or Bust The Ohio State wideout could solve L.A.’s offensive issues. Plus, who’s rising, who’s falling and the games this week that could impact the draft. Sports Illustrated · Oct 23
Nick Bartlett’s 2026 Week 8 Fearless Predictions Nick Bartlett looks at some factors that could affect the outcome of some of the regional contests this weekend. SuperWest Sports · Oct 23
2026 Week 8 Top Big 12 College Football Storylines Dane Miller's Week 8 Big 12 storylines: wins over Oregon and Notre Dame have the league buzzing about at-large Playoff bids and SEC pundits nervous. SuperWest Sports · Oct 22
College Football Playoff Eliminator: How the 2026 Season Would Look in a 24-Team Field If the expanded playoff was implemented this season, 26 more teams would be alive going into Week 7 than in the current setup with two-thirds coming from the Power 4. Sports Illustrated · Oct 17
The 24 Worst Teams That Would Have Made the College Football Playoff in New 24-Team Format Concern is mounting about how the new structure will dilute the caliber of teams playing for a national championship. Sports Illustrated · Oct 16
College Football Playoff Eliminator After Week 6: More Than Half of All Teams Out of the Running The ACC and Big 12 took big hits in Week 6, and the Group of 6 bid is down to a dozen viable contenders. Sports Illustrated · Oct 13
How to Grow Kale After Summer Crops Fade Your tomatoes are finished, the cucumbers have stopped producing, and your once-productive summer garden is starting to look empty. But before you pull everything out and call it a season, there’s one vegetable worth planting that actually prefers cooler temperatures. Kale can turn those empty garden beds into a fresh… Frugal Gardening · Oct 10
Penn State Bounces Back in a Big Way? Four Bold Predictions for College Football Week 6 Plus: Indiana and Texas on upset watch, a potential record-breaking day in Atlanta and another get-right game in North Carolina. Sports Illustrated · Oct 9
College Football Playoff Eliminator: One Conference Completely Out of Contention After Week 5 Plus, the Big 12 had its first teams exit the playoff picture and five other Power 4 teams said goodbye to their chances. Sports Illustrated · Oct 6
Why Fall Composting Gives Spring Gardens a Head Start Fall cleanup can leave gardeners staring at piles of leaves, spent vegetable plants, and other organic material that looks like waste but could actually become next year’s soil amendment. Instead of bagging everything for disposal and buying bags of compost in spring, you can put much of that material to… Frugal Gardening · Oct 3
October Lawn Care Tasks That Protect Your Grass Before Winter By October, the lawn mower may be running less often, but putting lawn care completely on hold can create problems that show up next spring. Grass type, climate and local frost dates determine exactly what your yard needs, yet several October lawn care jobs can protect turf through colder weather… Frugal Gardening · Oct 2
After Guy Burke’s death, his estate began funding engineering students at NC State Guy Burke’s lifelong connection with NC State has become a lasting legacy for engineering students. After financial hardship, military service and years of work delayed his graduation, Burke earned his engineering degree in 1962 and later worked for the US Navy. His estate gift now funds scholarships for students facing… The Times of India · Oct 2
Sports Illustrated · Oct 1 College Football Quarterback Rankings: Quarter-Season Grades for 15 Highly Touted Transfers With the first month of the college football season in the rearview mirror, we grade the starts for the nation’s 15 most significant transfer quarterbacks.
Frugal Gardening · Sep 29 Before You Cut Back Your Perennials, Check Who May Be Living Inside Them Brown coneflower stalks and dried bee balm may look like garden debris once fall arrives, but to some insects, those hollow stems look more like real estate. Native solitary bees, beneficial wasps, moths, spiders, and other small creatures can use dead plant material for nesting or shelter, which means an…
Frugal Gardening · Sep 25 Your Raised Bed Is Empty — Should You Cover It Before Winter? The last tomato has been picked, the dead vines are gone, and your raised garden bed is finally empty. It may seem logical to leave the soil alone until spring, but bare soil doesn’t necessarily benefit from spending several months exposed to rain, wind, weeds, and repeated temperature changes. Covering…
Frugal Gardening · Sep 24 Planting a Tree This Fall? This $0 Mistake Can Kill a $100 Tree You can spend $100—or considerably more—on a beautiful young tree, carefully drive it home, dig a hole, and unintentionally create a problem before you’ve even put the shovel away. The mistake costs nothing: planting the tree too deeply. Digging the planting hole too deep the most common mistake when planting…
Frugal Gardening · Sep 24 Before You Buy Compost, Look at What’s Going in Your Trash A bag of compost at the garden center looks like a gardening product, while the coffee grounds, vegetable peelings, cardboard, and fallen leaves leaving your house look like trash. Put those materials together correctly, however, and you have many of the ingredients needed to make homemade compost without repeatedly buying…
Sports Illustrated · Sep 23 College Football Week 3 Quarterback Rankings: Stock Up, Stock Down for 12 Key Players Now that trends are starting to develop, here are signal-callers who have vastly exceeded—or wildly underperformed—compared to our preseason expectations.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 22 College Football Playoff Eliminator: Which Teams Are Out or Alive for a Berth After Week 3 Two Power 4 programs—both in the ACC—were ousted from contention, while the Group of 6 thinned its ranks vying for its automatic berth.
Frugal Gardening · Sep 20 Can a $25 Fall Garden Produce $100 Worth of Food? Let’s Run the Numbers Spending $25 at the grocery store doesn’t buy much produce anymore, but could the same $25 planted in the backyard turn into $100 worth of vegetables? It’s possible, although the viral-sounding four-times-your-money return requires something many garden-budget calculations conveniently ignore: you need to already have a little infrastructure. If you…
Sports Illustrated · Sep 20 North Carolina’s Investigation Is Over. Bill Belichick’s On-Field Problems Aren’t. A day after UNC closed the investigation that led to the ouster of general manager Michael Lombardi and defensive coordinator Steve Belichick, the Tar Heels suffered an ugly loss at Clemson.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 20 College Football Week 3 Winners and Losers: Keep Louisville Weird The Cardinals, who flew under the radar in a chaotic week, are a delight to watch.
Sports Illustrated · Sep 19 Vanderbilt’s Miracle Win Over NC State Rivals Western Michigan-Michigan for Last-Second Finish of the Year The Wolfpack will be thinking about that one until the end of time.