August 28, 2008
BUIES CREEK (AP) - Dale Steele had one of the toughest jobs in college football: Convincing recruits to play for a Campbell program that didn't exist. There weren't any highlight reels he could show young players, no bowl trophies, no jerseys of Camels-tu...
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August 27, 2008
DURHAM (AP) - Mike Krzyzewski always maintained that leading the U.S. Olympic basketball team would make him a changed coach. Sure enough, Coach K was there on the sideline in Beijing and he stopped himself from saying something he otherwise might have......
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August 15, 2008
GREENSBORO (AP) - Carl Pettersson has produced the latest record-breaking performance at the Wyndham Championship.Pettersson shot a tournament-record 61 Friday and matched the PGA Tour record with a two-round score of 15-under 125. Late Friday afternoon......
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July 24, 2008
GREENSBORO (AP) - Brandt Snedeker had questions about the Wyndham Championship's new home course, so he turned to a North Carolina native. He wound up selling the defending champion on the layout at Sedgefield Country Club. "I talked to (Davis Love III an...
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WINSTON-SALEM (AP)- When Tony Woods came off the court at the AAU tournament in Florida, the five-star recruit had an unsettling voicemail waiting for him. The voice - future Wake Forest teammate Ty Walker - was familiar. The tone was not. Skip Prosser, t...
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May 5, 2008
RALEIGH (AP)- A Libertarian candidate for governor testified Monday that state law makes it "effectively impossible" to conduct a grassroots campaign in North Carolina. Mike Munger, a Duke University professor, testified during a civil trial tha...
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April 15, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM (AP)- A federal judge on Tuesday refused to sanction lawyers for publicizing a lawsuit filed by three dozen Duke lacrosse players in the wake of the discredited rape case against three of their teammates.
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April 3, 2008
RALEIGH -- After missing nearly two months with a broken leg, Chad LaRose is making up for lost time. His latest effort helped the Carolina Hurricanes stay one step ahead in the Southeast Division race. LaRose scored three goals to lead Carolina past the...
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March 18, 2008
RALEIGH — North Carolina has been awarded a No. 1 seed in the women's NCAA tournament — but not in the region the Tar Heels wanted. Coach Sylvia Hatchell's team was placed as the top seed in the New Orleans Regional on Monday night. The ACC ch...
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March 14, 2008
CHARLOTTE -- Paul Hewitt watched Virginia make long-range shot after long-range shot against his Georgia Tech team. Then, he urged his players to pick up the pace, and suddenly, the Cavaliers didn't have enough energy to keep scoring. Charlotte native Ant...
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March 6, 2008
CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Thousands of stunned students gathered silently Thursday on a quad at the University of North Carolina to mourn their student body president, just hours after police said she was the young woman found shot to death on a city stree...
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January 7, 2008
DURHAM -- Passes sailed out of bounds, loose balls went unrecovered, opposing scorers had room to operate -- and Duke's players weren't discussing their mistakes with each other. No wonder the Blue Devils had the look of a team that hadn't seen the court...
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December 15, 2007
DURHAM -- David Cutcliffe, the former Mississippi coach who spent the last two seasons as Tennessee's offensive coordinator, was hired by Duke on Friday, The Associated Press has learned. Cutcliffe will be introduced as Duke's head coach during a news con...
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