November 25, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Riley Skinner's football career at Wake Forest will end the way it began -- against Duke's Thaddeus Lewis. The quarterbacks made their starting debuts against each other four years ago, and each has written his name through...
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November 17, 2009
DURHAM (AP) — Duke didn't have one of its key players and Coastal Carolina was missing one too. The big difference: The Blue Devils had plenty of other weapons to make up for it. Kyle Singler had 23 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 9 Duke routed the...
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November 6, 2009
GREENVILLE (AP) — After Ryan Williams fumbled his last game away, Virginia Tech's freshman running back got his hands on something else — some old football stats. "I researched Walter Payton and how many fumbles he had, all my favorite ru...
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October 6, 2009
CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Two straight ACC losses, two anemic performances on offense. To get things jump-started, North Carolina's offense is going back to basics. Coach Butch Davis hopes that, by simplifying the playbook, the Tar Heels' inexperience...
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October 3, 2009
RALEIGH -- Ray Emery made 28 saves in his Philadelphia debut, leading the Flyers to a 2-0 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night at the RBC Center in their opener.
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DURHAM -- The Duke Blue Devils could have the No. 6 Virginia Tech Hokies right where they want them. The Hokies are flying high after their big win over Miami. And the Blue Devils, who quietly are feeling good about themselves after an easy victory over a...
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October 2, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes look much like the team that won the Stanley Cup in 2006. Here's the big question: Will they play like them, too?
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August 13, 2009
It's hard to believe a conference with Miami and Florida State could lose its swagger. The Hurricanes and Seminoles in their hey days practically invented the term. But that's what has happened to the ACC. Virginia Tech gave the league's national reputati...
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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Riley Skinner sometimes made it look easy during his first three years at Wake Forest. He claimed an unlikely ACC title as a redshirt freshman in 2006, then followed that with consecutive bowl victories. He won more games t...
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August 12, 2009
DURHAM -- Though Duke made great strides during coach David Cutcliffe's first season the Blue Devils know an even tougher job lies ahead: Taking the next step forward and becoming a bowl team. "That's a bigger task, when you're talking about b...
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June 11, 2009
RANDLEMAN (AP) — From behind those trademark shades, Richard Petty has seen just about everything during a half-century in racing. But even The King has been caught off guard by the severity of the recession that has caused NASCAR to tap its brakes......
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May 27, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Two superstars, two straight trips to the Stanley Cup finals.That formula first worked so well for the Penguins nearly two decades ago when Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr helped them win the Cup in consecutive seasons.Their best two-m...
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May 26, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — It has been five months since Eric Staal went this long between goals. If the All-Star center doesn't start producing soon, he might have to wait that long before his next chance to score. As Staal goes in this postseason, so go the C...
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May 25, 2009
RALEIGH -- Maybe the toughest part of the Pittsburgh Penguins' recent dominance has been making it look so easy. Victories in the Eastern Conference finals are coming as quickly as their goals. Twice in Game 3 they scored a pair of goals seconds apart. Th...
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May 24, 2009
RALEIGH -- Evgeni Malkin had two goals and an assist, and the Pittsburgh Penguins pushed Carolina to the brink of elimination by routing the Hurricanes 6-2 on Saturday night in the RBC Center. Sidney Crosby added a goal and an assist for the Penguins, who...
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May 23, 2009
RALEIGH -- Playoff comebacks have been commonplace for Carolina, and for the Hurricanes to make the Eastern Conference finals a competitive series again, they'll need their biggest one yet. Stuck in a two-game hole for the first time this postseason, the...
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May 13, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The Boston Bruins played an entire season to get to this point: a winner-take-all Game 7 in their building.With those high stakes, the NHL's top remaining seed wasn't about to get caught up in settling a score. Instead, the Bruins mov...
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May 9, 2009
RALEIGH -- Eric Staal scored two goals to break the club career playoff scoring record, and the Carolina Hurricanes pushed the top-seeded Boston Bruins to the brink of elimination, pulling away late for a 4-1 victory Friday night.The Hurricanes lead the E...
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May 8, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Carolina's improbable playoff run has been fueled by dramatic finishes and unlikely heroes. The Hurricanes' flair for drama has taken the hockey world by surprise, however, the Carolina players look at it as business as usual. That at...
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May 7, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A playoff game was tied and time was ticking away. For the Carolina Hurricanes, that meant it was Jussi Jokinen's time to shine.Jokinen scored at 2:48 of overtime to lift the Hurricanes past the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Wednesday night in...
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May 6, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Chad LaRose tried to beat up 6-foot-9 Boston defenseman Zdeno Chara a few months ago, but that didn't quite work. So once the playoffs started, the 5-10 Carolina forward instead turned to his quickness to outfox the NHL's tallest play...
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April 30, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Paul Maurice couldn't sleep. His Carolina Hurricanes had staged a rally for the ages a few hours earlier, and the coach's mind wouldn't stop racing. "Every five minutes or so ... it's like getting hit with a bus — but a goo...
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April 27, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — So much for these Carolina Hurricanes crumbling under the pressure of nearly being eliminated. The mood in their dressing room had never been lighter — and that was before they blew out the New Jersey Devils."I guess when y...
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April 22, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Jussi Jokinen couldn't sneak a late backhand past Martin Brodeur, so he parked himself in front of the net to distract the New Jersey Devils goaltender.With the click of a skate, he saved the Carolina Hurricanes from the brink of play...
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April 21, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Everything seemed to line up against the New Jersey Devils to make a run at the Stanley Cup.They drew one of the NHL's hottest teams down the stretch for their first-round series, a Carolina club that all but owned them during th...
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