February 12, 2012
Four weeks from today, on the second Sunday in March, they’ll play the championship game of the ACC Tournament. That’s 28 days to sell tickets to an event that — once upon a pre-expansion time — was a guaranteed sellout. Tickets we...
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February 10, 2012
February 3, 2012
There’s still no word when Syracuse and Pitt will join the ACC, but the conference has announced its scheduling plans for when the Orange and Panthers arrive.The ACC wraps up its winter meetings in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., today, and the future schedu...
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February 2, 2012
GREENSBORO — Rod Broadway arrived at N.C. A&T one day after signing day last year. It was too late for the new coach to recruit, so the Aggies added just three scholarship players to a team coming off a 1-10 season, biding their time. This year...
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January 28, 2012
If you hustle, you could get to both games. You could see an afternoon doubleheader featuring the city’s two resurgent NCAA Division I men’s basketball teams. Both N.C. A&T and UNCG have put dismal Decembers in their rearview mirrors. Both...
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January 18, 2012
When the game ended, and the frenzied celebration began, and Florida State’s fans stormed the court, most of the North Carolina players were already gone.Most, but not all. Five Sacrificial Rams remained.
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January 6, 2012
GREENSBORO -- The Greensboro Grasshoppers will have a whole new coaching staff this summer, led by manager Dave Berg.Berg, a former infielder who played seven years in the major leagues, spent the last two seasons managing the Miami Marlins' short-season...
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December 22, 2011
Bradford Burgess is Virginia Commonwealth’s only senior this season, the basketball team’s top scorer and a Final Four veteran who leads the Rams into the Greensboro Coliseum tonight against UNCG.
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December 21, 2011
CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina wide receiver Dwight Jones will get to play in the Independence Bowl after all.Jones, a 6-foot-4 senior from Burlington who starred at Cummings High School, has been reinstated by the NCAA and is eligible to play in ...
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December 6, 2011
HIGH POINT — This is no ordinary nonconference basketball game. This one is kind of a big deal.Wake Forest of the mighty ACC will play High Point of the little Big South at 7 p.m. Wednesday — inside the Panthers’ cozy 1,750-seat Mil...
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December 2, 2011
North Carolina shooting guard P.J. Hairston, a freshman from Greensboro who starred at Dudley, is questionable for Saturday’s game at top-ranked Kentucky because of a sprained left wrist and bruised bone.
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December 1, 2011
CHAPEL HILL — Kendall Marshall held his own. But when it really mattered, when the game was on the line in the final 10 minutes, he swapped defensive assignments with Dexter Strickland.
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October 29, 2011
GREENSBORO — This just in: T.J. Logan is a pretty darn good running back.
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September 25, 2011
Besides players, pads and helmets, what do you need to play a football game?Bare bones: A field 120 yards long, two goal posts, two locker rooms, a scoreboard and a place for spectators to sit.It’s way, way beyond bare bones at the six college footb...
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Besides players, pads and helmets, what do you need to play a football game? Bare bones: A field 120 yards long, two goal posts, two locker rooms, a scoreboard and a place for spectators to sit. It's way, way beyond bare bones at the six college football...
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North Carolina's six top-drawing college football programs have spent more than $358.6 million in stadium improvements in the last dozen years.N.C. STATE Carter-Finley StadiumOpened: Oct. 8, 1966Capacity: 57,583Spent: $98 million
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GREENSBORO — Like the football program itself, N.C. A&T's latest facilities upgrade is still very much a work in progress. More than a month behind schedule, construction continues on a $4 million-plus, three-level press box, VIP and luxury suit...
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GREENSBORO — Coastal Carolina hosts N.C. A&T next season in the final meeting of their second home-and-home series.Don’t bet on a renewal of the series after that.
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September 19, 2011
GREENSBORO — The Atlantic Coast Conference already stretched from the beaches of south Florida to a harbor town in Massachusetts before it added Syracuse and Pittsburgh to the fold during the weekend.So for all the talk of the changing landscape of...
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September 13, 2011
GREENSBORO — What is it with these Greensboro Grasshoppers?How in the world do they continue to write comeback story after comeback story after comeback story?
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September 5, 2011
KANNAPOLIS – Marcell Ozuna went 3-for-5 with a home run, and his RBI single in the top of the 10th inning helped the Greensboro Grasshoppers clinch a South Atlantic League playoff spot with a 9-6 victory over the Kannapolis Intimidators on a rainy L...
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September 1, 2011
GREENSBORO -- N.C. A&T has hired Joel Sanchez as its new baseball coach.Sanchez replaces Keith Shumate, the most successfull coach in the program's history with 304 victories, who resigned in July after 15 years with the Aggies.
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August 22, 2011
GREENSBORO — If you’re not a hard-core golf fan, chances are you don’t know the two players who made the best run at Webb Simpson during Sunday’s final round of the Wyndham Championship.George McNeill, a 35-year-old who played at F...
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GREENSBORO — You might never see another birdie like the one Carl Pettersson made on the first hole Sunday at Sedgefield Country Club.
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August 19, 2011
GREENSBORO — Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey struggled on the teebox again Friday.But a whole lot of players would swap problems with him.
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