FAYETTEVILLE STATE 2012 PRESEASON FOOTBALL OUTLOOK A LOOK BACK For the second consecutive season, the Fayetteville State Broncos matured as a young and rather inexperienced football team at the beginning of the season into one of the CIAA’s most dangerous squads by the season’s midpoint. While Fayetteville State won four of its last five games [...]
FSU’S PODLOGAR WINS COSIDA AWARD FOR BRONCO BLOG Assistant SID wins district honor in Stabley Writing Contest FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Fayetteville State Assistant Sports Information Director Alex Podlogar was honored with a College Sports Information Directors of America writing award for the second consecutive year. Podlogar, who won two national awards and two district awards [...]
BY ALEX PODLOGAR I have a recurring dream that I’d wager is not unlike one many people have. It’s the same every time. I wake up in a UNC dorm room, and realize within seconds that a class I thought I had dropped in the semester’s first week is actually still on my schedule. This [...]
FAYETTEVILLE STATE’S JACOB BARGE QUALIFIES FOR NCAA D-II CHAMPIONSHIP Broncos’ top player and Fayetteville native finishes tied for 4th BY ALEX PODLOGAR HERSHEY, Pa. – They rode along in silence. Cramped in a rented passenger van early Wednesday morning, the streets still wet from two days of rain, they sat next to each other, riding [...]
The Fayetteville Observer caught up with former Fayetteville State football star Richard Medlin recently and had a wonderful Sunday centerpiece feature story on the Miami Dolphins running back. Medlin, after starring for four seasons with the Broncos, was activated by the Dolphins for their last regular season game a year ago after spending time on [...]
2012 BRONCOS ATHLETIC AWARDS CEREMONY Below is much of the script for the 2012 Broncos Athletic Awards Ceremony, which took place on Monday at the Seabrook Auditorium on thr campus of Fayetteville State. You will find here each award-winner from the 2012 ceremony, as well as the introduction for each winner, sport and presenter. Nia [...]
LANE LIFTS RAMS TO SECOND STRAIGHT CIAA SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP BY ALEX PODLOGAR ETTRICK, Va. – Just give her the ball, and Brittany Lane will do the rest. After shouldering a staggering workload on Friday, Winston-Salem State ace Brittany Lane fired a two-hit shutout to force a decisive game in the championship round before coming back [...]
For a complete wrapup of Day 1′s action, go here. LOSERS’ BRACKET North No. 1 Chowan 12, South No. 4 Johnson C. Smith 0 PETERSBURG, Va. — Alora Lincoln fired a no-hitter and the Chowan bats came alive as the Hawks staved off elimination with a 12-0 thumping of Johnson C. Smith in five innings [...]
