North Carolina State head football coach Tom O'Brien says safeties Donald Coleman and Dean Haynes are transferring. School officials, who announced the players' decisions Friday, said Coleman has graduated and will be eligible to play for his new school immediately. Haynes will be a redshirt junior this fall. He arrived in 2009 as a defensive back and began the 2010 season as the starter at... [Read More]
North Carolina State Wolfpack linebacker D.J. Green says the NCAA has suspended him for the season after he tested positive for using a banned substance that he did not identify.Green apologized in a statement. He says he was trying to gain weight during the offseason and took a supplement given to him by someone from his hometown in Macon, Ga.He says he "wasn't responsible enough to check... [Read More]
N.C. State linebacker Terrell Manning will be out three weeks with a knee injury, Wolfpack coach Tom O'Brien said Tuesday. Manning, State's starting outside linebacker, had surgery on his left knee on Monday, after suffering an undisclosed injury at the end of the first quarter of N.C. State's 35-13 win over South Alabama. Senior Dwayne Maddox will replace Manning against Cincinnati on Thursday.... [Read More]
North Carolina State says defensive tackle J.R. Sweezy will miss six weeks after breaking his foot. The school issued a statement Sunday night saying Sweezy had surgery to repair the fracture. In keeping with team policy, NC State did not say which foot is broken. Sweezy is a senior captain who had 13 tackles for losses and six sacks in 2010.
Sophomore running back Mustafa Greene will miss at least the first four games of the season because of a foot injury, Wolfpack coach Tom O'Brien said. Greene, who suffered the injury in spring practice, has a target return date of Oct. 1, O'Brien said. "We have to wait until he gets healthy," O'Brien said. "We're going to be cautious. A week later is better than a day... [Read More]
