N.C. State's football game with Wake Forest on Saturday will be broadcast by Time Warner Cable on digital channel No. 520.

The game kicks off at 2 p.m. and will also be broadcast online at ESPN3.com.

CARY – Entering this week’s ACC women’s soccer tournament, North Carolina had made every final since the league started the event in 1988.

Not this time.

It took a gutsy 1-1 (5-4) shootout victory by Wake Forest at WakeMed Stadium on Friday to snap that 22-year streak.

The weather is turning colder, but around the Triangle fall - and even winter - will provide great days for running in road races and cross country events.

Two of the Triangle’s bigger events on a very full fall schedule (a list is below) take place over the next two weeks, with the City of Oaks Marathon and Rex Healthcare Half Marathon on Nov. 7 and the Old Reliable Run on Nov. 14.

Nov. 7 also is World Run Day.

CHARLOTTE - The media that cover the ACC picked Duke to finish atop the conference, but the vote wasn't unanimous.

Duke received 61 of a possible 62 first-place votes in the annual preseason poll, which was released this afternoon at the ACC's operation basketball event. North Carolina, which was picked third overall in the poll, received the other first-place vote.

It wasn't immediately clear which media member selected the Tar Heels No. 1.

Virginia Tech was picked No. 2, and N.C. State was No. 4.

CHARLOTTE -- Jeff Bzdelik hasn’t been at Wake Forest very long, but he has made one big change to the way the Demon Deacons play already. In addition to abandoning Dino Gaudio’s pack-line defense in favor of a more aggressive, attacking scheme, he has moved sophomore C.J. Harris from shooting guard to point guard in the wake of Ish Smith’s departure.

As a freshman, Harris was one of the ACC’s biggest surprises, averaging 9.9 points in almost 28 minutes per game while giving the Deacons a consistent outside shooting threat. He didn’t have to handle the ball much with Smith on the court, so the new role puts Harris in somewhat uncharted waters.

Georgia Tech rallied from behind twice in the fourth quarter Saturday night to escape with a 24-20 victory over Wake Forest at BB&T Field.

Georgia Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt threw a nine-yard touchdown pass to Correy Earls with 15 seconds remaining to cap the Yellow Jackets’ comeback victory.

Wake Forest has agreed to play home and away in football with Notre Dame, according to a Wake Forest news release.

Notre Dame will visit Wake Forest on Nov. 5, 2011. Wake Forest will travel to Notre Dame on Nov. 7, 2015.

The teams previously had agreed to a game at Notre Dame on Nov. 17, 2012. The new, two-game agreement is separate from that previous agreement.

“This is an excellent opportunity for our football program to compete against one of the most-storied football programs in the nation,” Wake Forest athletic director Ron Wellman said in a statement released by the school. “Notre Dame has long been recognized for its excellence both academically and athletically and we expect that our fans will thoroughly enjoy having the Fighting Irish come to BB&T Field.”

N.C. State's home football game against Boston College will begin at noon on Oct. 9 and will be televised by the ACC Network, the ACC announced this morning.

Also on Oct. 9, North Carolina's home game against Clemson will start at 3:30 p.m. and will be carried by ABC regionally and ESPN nationally.

Wake Forest's home game against Navy will begin at 6:30 p.m.

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Wake Forest junior center Tony Woods has been suspended indefinitely from the men’s basketball team, coach Jeff Bzdelik said in a statement today, “in order to allow him to devote his time and effort to address the allegations that he is facing.”

According to the Winston-Salem Journal, the incident happened on Labor Day. Woods is alleged to have kicked and pushed down Courtney Lorel Barbour, the mother of their 1-year-old child with whom he lives. Woods, 20, was charged with three misdemeanors:  assault inflicting serious injury, assault on a female and assault inflicting injury in the presence of a child. According to the Journal, police said that Barbour sustained a lumbar spine fracture.