December 9, 2011
For the fourth time in as many years, North Carolina has reached the College Cup and will attempt to win a men’s soccer championship. But for the first time in those appearances, a championship is a long-standing goal.
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December 2, 2011
Championships and titles are handed out each year in women’s basketball, but courts at Division I schools aren’t named in honor of a person nearly so often. On Saturday, UNCG will name the women’s basketball court in Fleming Gym after lo...
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October 29, 2011
GREENSBORO — On an already soggy night, Southern Guilford coach Darryl Brown managed to get even more wet.His Storm (8-2, 4-1 Mid-Piedmont 3-A) beat Asheboro (7-4, 3-2) at home 20-6 on Friday night to clinch a first-round home playoff game and a sha...
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October 19, 2011
GREENSBORO — Bringing USA Diving nationals to town was at least two years in the making, maybe longer.That time frame was well before the Greensboro Aquatic Center, which officially opened in September, was being built.
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September 7, 2011
GREENSBORO — The Grasshoppers players are actually enjoying baseball. For athletes, games become jobs, and as in any workplace some can take that too seriously. While player development is one reason the minor leagues exist, the work can overtake so...
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August 22, 2011
Andy Roddick, the No. 21 ranked tennis player in the world, will begin his match in the Tuesday evening session of the Winston-Salem Open. The evening session begins at 7 p.m., according to a news release from the pro tennis event.
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August 21, 2011
GREENSBORO -- Greens at Sedgefield Country Club won't receive new grass until owner John McConnell sees how the Champion Dwarf Bermudagrass greens work at Starmount Forest Country Club. "I'm a software guy," McConnell said Saturday, referring to...
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August 19, 2011
GREENSBORO — A year removed from a student death on its track, N.C. A&T is updating its athletics policies and boosting its oversight of coaches and efforts to keep athletes safe, even as it prepares for possible litigation after the death of Jo...
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GREENSBORO -- You can get serious about building sand castles with these guys. Near the Wyndham Championship's fan pavilion around No. 18, two guys shoveled and sprayed down about three truckloads of sand. "What are you building, one of those platfor...
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August 12, 2011
GREENSBORO — You can hike miles around a lake and see wildlife within a 15 minute drive of downtown Greensboro. Or you can ride a mountain bike across 30 miles of trails. If you’d rather hook some fish or get some paddling in, that’s ne...
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August 4, 2011
GREENSBORO — For the second straight year, a Greensboro youth baseball all-star team is going to the Colt League World Series in Lafayette, Ind. Greensboro Green team members will load into rented vans and leave at 9 a.m. today. The players will pas...
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July 20, 2011
GREENSBORO — More officials and extra signs will line the course of the 2011 United Healthcare North Carolina Marathon.In last year's race, a misdirected half-marathoner wound up finishing the marathon first and caused some controversy in the local...
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June 27, 2011
GREENSBORO — The most striking features in the late stages of construction at the Greensboro Aquatic Center are the huge concrete-and-tile pits.Standing next to a 17-foot-deep diving well gives you a sense for what some athletes there will be doing.
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GREENSBORO -- The most striking features in the late stages of construction at the Greensboro Aquatic Center are the huge concrete-and-tile pits. Standing next to a 17-foot-deep diving well gives you a sense for what some athletes there will be doing. The...
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June 16, 2011
GREENSBORO -- A national youth championship through the YMCA is coming to the Greensboro Aquatic Center in 2012. The announcement came today in a news conference at the Greensboro Coliseum.
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GREENSBORO — Greensboro appears to have hooked the YMCA 2012 Short Course Swimming and Diving Championships for its new aquatics center. The event attracts about 1,600 top swimmers from across the country and will move from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., t...
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June 15, 2011
GREENSBORO — It appears likely that the YMCA short course nationals will come to Greensboro in 2012, though officials with the meet would not confirm.Jim Weaton, the national director of events for the YMCA, said today that Greensboro was one of six...
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May 19, 2011
GREENSBORO — College athletes, who are often physically and socially the big men on campus, should not get a pass on rules for sexual conduct, says a victims’ advocate in Greensboro.
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May 8, 2011
GREENSBORO — The Guilford College golf team was mourning the loss of its longtime coach, Jack Jensen, while preparing for the NCAA Division III championship at this time last year. The 2011 team makeup is much the same, and now with coach Corey Magg...
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May 2, 2011
GREENSBORO — Just northeast of downtown Greensboro sits a $186,000-a-year taxpayer conundrum: War Memorial Stadium. As the City Council considers cuts to balance a $423 million budget, all city expenses are being analyzed. And what to do with the ba...
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTERESTAREA POOLS At issue: There has been hand-wringing among members of the swimming community on the possibility of cuts that would close public pools in the city. But four City Council members and the mayor say they oppose such cuts......
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April 24, 2011
GREENSBORO —An idyllic afternoon scene unfolded at N.C. A&T, with white clouds floating high over the cobalt-blue track where a few dozen runners ran their workouts in a light breeze.
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April 21, 2011
GREENSBORO — Cold beer sat on ice for students in the class. Boxes of Cracker Jack and peanuts sat nearby. Most students for this film course at Greensboro College were baseball geeks, but they didn't have to be to appreciate what they were watching...
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April 18, 2011
GREENSBORO — About 30 youths played lacrosse when Billy Hook came here to grow the sport. That was 15 years and more than a thousand players ago. Now there are leagues spanning across Burlington, Winston-Salem, High Point and Greensboro with about 1...
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April 15, 2011
GREENSBORO -- In just four years, the sprint triathlon at Belews Lake has grown to draw an elite field. As an event in a statewide triathlon series, according to the race director, it blinks bright on the event lists for athletes.
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