Tim Peeler

Tim Peeler came to GoPack.com in November, 2004, as one of the nation's first columnists/reporters for an official athletics department website. Prior to that, he spent nearly 20 years as a newspaper reporter and magazine writer in the Carolinas.

In August, 2006, he was named managing editor of GoPack.com. His responsibilities include writing feature stories and game analyses about all NC State athletics and managing the content on GoPack.com. He has also appeared on radio broadcasts produced by Wolfpack Sports Marketing.

Peeler has been a staff writer at the Raleigh Times, Salisbury (N.C.) Post, The Greenville (S.C.) News and Greenville Piedmont, the Durham Herald-Sun and the Greensboro News & Record, covering college athletics, as well as golf, NBA basketball and high school sports. In 1996, he covered the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. He has reported on six Final Fours, seven Masters and two U.S. Opens.

During his newspaper career, Peeler won 10 national and regional writing awards from the North Carolina Press Association, the South Carolina Press Association, the Football Writers of America Association and the Associated Press Sports Editors. While working at the Greensboro News & Record, he won two first-place awards in the 2003 NCPA writing contest, one for a feature on former NC State cornerback J.J. Washington and an shared award for coverage of ACC expansion. He twice won the Landmark Award as the top reporter on the News & Record sports staff.

He has contributed to various newspapers and magazines over the last two decades, including Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, the Associated Press, United Press International, USA Today and the Miami Herald. He is also a contributing editor to the Blue Ribbon College Football and College Basketball Yearbooks, a contributing editor to the NC State Alumni Magazine and a regular contributor to "The Wolfpacker," an independent magazine covering Wolfpack athletics.

Peeler has published three books about NC State basketball, "Legends of NC State Basketball" (Sports Publishing LLC, 2004), "When March Went Mad: A Celebration of NC State's 1983 National Championship" (Sports Publishing LLC, 2007) and "NC State Basketball: 100 Years of Innovation" (UNC Press, 2010) with Roger Winstead.

A native of Vale, NC, Peeler graduated from NC State in 1987 with a bachelor of arts in Writing and Editing, with a concentration in Communications. During his four-and-a-half years as a student at NC State, Peeler was sports editor of both Technician, the student newspaper, and Agromeck, the student yearbook, and a contributor to student radio station WKNC.

The father of two sons lives in Cary with his family.

Tony Haynes

A 1984 graduate of NC State, Haynes joined the Wolfpack Sports Network in 1998. His list of duties include color analyst for men's basketball, sideline reporter for the football broadcasts, and host for the TV and radio coaches shows for both football and men's basketball.

Haynes also does play-by-play for selected NC State baseball broadcasts, along with serving as host of "Inside Wolfpack Sports." He also contributes columns and stories to GoPack.com on a regular basis.

After serving as sports director for NC State's student station, WKNC 88.1 FM from 1982-84, the Lynchburg, Va., native was a disc jockey and sports reporter for WKIX 850 in Raleigh between 1984-89. He joined the Duke Radio Network as a sideline reporter for football in 1987 and later became a member of the Duke basketball radio team in 1993. Haynes also worked as a sports anchor/reporter for the North Carolina News Network from 1989-2000.

A.J. Carr

Like many of the coaches and athletes he has written about, A.J. Carr is an icon of North Carolina sports.

The native of Wallace, N.C., and graduate of Guilford College is a regular contributor to GoPack.com, writing feature stories about student-athletes past and present. He joined GoPack.com following his retirement in April, 2009, from the Raleigh News & Observer, where he spent 43 years covering a little bit of everything.

During his career, Carr won more writing awards than he can count. He was twice voted the North Carolina sportswriter of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

He's made heroes out thousands of college athletes, but he has also written just as eloquently about those who participated in lesser-known activities. Carr is one of his profession's most trustworthy reporters, capable of making the most paranoid coach melt with affection.

The late Norm Sloan, who led NC State to the 1974 NCAA Championship and three ACC titles, was known for his emotional outbursts and his disregard for the media. He once told a collection of sportswriters: "If it weren't for A.J. Carr, I'd hate every one of you son of [guns]."

Known for his quiet demeanor, his good humor, his devout faith and his multiple `thank yous' for every favor, Carr won the respect of the players and coaches he covered, while maintaining an integrity that few can ever achieve.

He contributes stories on a regular basis to GoPack.com, as well as other publications and websites.