Goodnight, sweet prince

6/28/2011 8:29:14 AM

RIP...you will be missed!

6/28/2011 8:51:11 AM

well dang

6/28/2011 9:16:25 AM

Sad day for the Wolfpack...we lost a good one!

RIP

6/28/2011 9:28:14 AM

Terrible news...he was always a favorite wolfpack hero, a great player.

6/28/2011 9:42:39 AM

Quote :

"The 1983 team has now lost four members: Valvano, who died of cancer in 1993; McLean, who died unexpectedly on April 27; walk-on Quinton Leonard, who died at age 44 of a heart attack in 2006; and Charles."

From the ESPN article.

6/28/2011 9:59:36 AM

Nice blurb in the AP article:

http://www.thestate.com/2011/06/27/1876859/ex-wolfpack-star-charles-killed.html

Quote :

"A message left on a phone listed to Charles wasn't immediately returned Monday night"

I WONDER WHY

6/28/2011 10:15:08 AM

6/28/2011 11:06:09 AM

Quote :

"Damn shitty day for NC State - finally make two headlines on ESPN.com and they are about our all ACC QB playing at freaking Wisconsin and then a basketball hero in Lorenzo Charles dying in a car crash."

My thoughts exactly! Sooooo sad!! He was such a hero and a Wolfpack Legend who bled RED and WHITE faithfully. R.I.P Lorenzo Charles!! Definitely sending prayers to his family during this tough time.

6/28/2011 11:19:27 AM

Great article in SI.com today:

http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/06/28/lorenzo-charles-and-the-shot/

6/28/2011 1:27:24 PM

pic fail

[Edited on June 28, 2011 at 1:28 PM. Reason : RIP]

6/28/2011 1:28:17 PM

great post. i have to compare that to a post i read on ESPN today that was just horrid and full or missing words.

I was 9 years old, a budding state fan, we all had to watch that game at my uncle's house. My dad was in Saudi Arabia at the time. The leadup to the game by the network just showed Houston dunking like crazy on everyone, as if that's the only shot allowed in basketball. And I remember vividly saying to my mom :"this game's going to end on alley-oop". I just thought it would be state getting creamed by 25pts or so. I kept thinking.. how are we gonna beat anyone who has a guy called: Clyde "The Glide" Drexler?

I still remember the final sequence of events even better than the replays. Unimaginable joy. We immediately left Dunn and went to Raleigh. It was a madhouse. Toilet paper was everywhere. Bon-fires glowed in every direction. Drunk college kids way up in trees and light posts. And Lorenzo after he dunked it, looked as if he had done something wrong, maybe he thought he was going to get called for goal-tending or he didn't beat the clock...

6/28/2011 2:02:03 PM

made me sad when i saw the news

6/28/2011 4:29:36 PM

the more I think about it, the more I realize that we need a statue of him/that dunk in front of Reynolds

6/28/2011 5:44:13 PM

Anyone remember that T-shirt that listed the first names of the five players?

Sidney &
Thurl &
Cozell &
Lorenzo &
Dereck

or something like that.

I've been trying to find it unsuccessfully.

6/28/2011 6:27:48 PM

whoever made them copied undrcrwn's dynasty series

i'm sure they only printed one run of them

6/28/2011 6:36:46 PM

Quote :

" the more I think about it, the more I realize that we need a statue of him/that dunk in front of Reynolds"

We need statues of that, Jimmy V, Sloan, Case and Thompson outside of Reynolds and the RBC. All we have right now for our basketball program is our history and for whatever reason we aren't doing all we can to honor it.

I love that there will be a Lorenzo Charles commemorative patch on the jersey's this year though.

6/28/2011 6:55:20 PM

^^^i've got one, AC Slater gave it to me.

6/28/2011 7:05:32 PM

6/28/2011 7:24:20 PM

Damn I want one of those.

6/28/2011 7:27:15 PM

Did they make them in any size other than XXXL?

6/28/2011 7:34:09 PM

don't recall the specifics, that however is an unwashed (undried) 2XL

6/28/2011 7:36:52 PM

made it on PTI today as a RIP...gave a full 2 min. to him

RIP

6/28/2011 7:38:04 PM

I wish I could see what Wilbon and Kornheiser had to say.

6/28/2011 8:08:43 PM

they didnt discuss it on ATH, but Woody Paige used his face time to talk about it

6/28/2011 8:10:14 PM

^^ Go to ESPN.com and download the podcast. You won't be able to SEE what they say, but you could still hear it.

6/28/2011 8:29:10 PM

kornheiser talked about it for like 10 minutes on his radio show, if you really want to hear what he has to say about it.

6/28/2011 8:40:21 PM

and all this time I thought I was the only person in Raleigh who listened to his radio show

6/28/2011 9:36:05 PM

I listen to it every day. The podcast delay is ridiculous from ESPN 980 here in DC though. I don't get it from ESPN.com.

The full-length show is split into two 40-minute files, which is great because that's exactly how I long I walk my dog twice a day.

6/28/2011 10:04:30 PM

same

pissed that they wait a day to post shows now

6/28/2011 10:06:20 PM

Quote :

"Also, lets be glad the bus was empty, not for the passengers' sake, but for Lorenzo's. If a few dozen civilians died with him, the media would've made him out to be a huge asshole."

w2g capn obvious

6/28/2011 10:20:45 PM

how are there only two pages for lorenzo charles? the guy WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR US...i am seriously disappoint wolf net.

every user who reads ST should post in here...

6/29/2011 9:28:25 AM

Good Lord, what a beast

6/29/2011 9:29:03 AM

Dude was definitely beastly, and a true champion.

Most of us weren't alive when he played, but he was a legend here, and it's a sad event.

6/29/2011 9:41:55 AM

Sports Center had the dunk as the #2 most dramatic moment in sports history today. #1 was the 1980 USA men's hockey team beating the Soviet Union in the semi-finals of the Olympics.

7/11/2011 1:01:40 PM

this

means

EVERYTHING

7/11/2011 1:07:00 PM

^^^^im sorry, thats kinda ~

7/11/2011 1:15:14 PM

^ you are so ignorant.

7/11/2011 1:16:40 PM

just the presentaton of the post, not so much denying that the guy was actually a beast

im just sayin

7/11/2011 1:18:39 PM

Quote :

"Anyone remember that T-shirt that listed the first names of the five players? Sidney & Thurl & Cozell & Lorenzo & Dereck or something like that. I've been trying to find it unsuccessfully."

Agent 0 made 'em

7/11/2011 1:28:25 PM

i have one

7/11/2011 1:33:58 PM