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He’s been described by The Wall Street Journal as the “Oprah Winfrey of college football” and by the Huntsville (Ala.) Times as “the most influential sports-talk personality in the Southeast.”

Elon University announced on Thursday it will leave the Southern Conference to join the Colonial Athletic Association in all sports for the 2014-15 school year.

Brandon Mitchell knows he will have to fight for the starting role behind center on the N.C. State football team.

North Carolina quarterback Marquise Williams, a Mallard Creek graduate, is back in school after not being enrolled during the spring semester, team spokesman Kevin Best said on Friday.

The second class of the N.C. State Athletic Hall of Fame features one of the best individual stars the school has ever produced and the coach and one of the best players from perhaps the school’s greatest team ever, the 1974 national championship basketball team.

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