October 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — This is what cancer did to Joann Grimes: It weakened her, terrified her. It sickened and depressed her to no end.
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September 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — The typical Dudley running back is a guy who would look right at home in one of those tractor pulls at the county fair. You know, as one of the tractors. Typically, he is a guy who hovers around 200 pounds and leaves tire tracks on the...
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September 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — Once measured in legal motions and courtroom appeals, the lengths to which Gabe King will go to finish his high school football career can now be measured in miles — 2,904 to be exact.That’s how far it is from Northern Guilf...
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September 18, 2009
DURHAM — Caitlyn Cleaver scored with 4 minutes left in overtime to lift Durham Academy to a 2-1 victory over Greensboro Day school in field hockey. Cleaver's goal spoiled a dramatic comeback by Greensboro Day, which tied the game at the end of regul...
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September 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — After a series of legal twists and turns, Gabe King's quest to play high school football is over — at least in North Carolina. The executive committee of the N.C. High School Athletic Association on Wednesday unanimously rejected...
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September 11, 2009
JAMESTOWN - The game was over by halftime, but the football massacre lasted all evening.Ragsdale tried hard to stop it, but in a mismatch during which they couldn't help but score and score often, the Tigers scored seven straight touchdowns and humiliated...
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GREENSBORO — The family of Northern Guilford football player Gabe King dropped its lawsuit Thursday against the N.C. High School Athletic Association in exchange for an appeal hearing before the association's executive committee next week. The settl...
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September 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — Northern High football player Gabe King was sent back to the sidelines Thursday after a Superior Court judge dissolved a court order that had temporarily restored King's eligibility.Judge Ed Gregory's ruling prevents King from practicin...
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September 2, 2009
GREENSBORO — Even after taking on the N.C. High School Athletic Association and getting some relief from a court, Gabe King's eligibility remains as much a mystery this week as it has all summer long. But King's murky future could come into focus wh...
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August 29, 2009
GREENSBORO — Former Page High football player Gabe King won a court battle Friday, but his athletic future remains in doubt. A Guilford County district court judge granted King’s request for a temporary restraining order, reinstating the eligi...
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August 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — In the days after Northern Guilford High School won the 2009 3-A boys basketball state title, coaches and players attributed their success to the long hours and extra work they put in before and during the season.In court documents rele...
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August 26, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Sports Commission turned within for its next president, naming former Greensboro College athletic director Kim Strable to replace outgoing president Marc Bush next month. Strable, whose position at Greensboro College was...
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August 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Now that the latest version of the Wyndham Championship is history, the question on everyone's mind is: Where does the Wyndham go from here? After all, how do you top one of the most exciting tournaments in years? How do you replicate a...
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GREENSBORO — Former Greensboro College athletics director Kim Strable has been named the new president of the Greensboro Sports Commission. He will replace Marc Bush, who served as president the past seven years.
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August 22, 2009
GREENSBORO -- It was a busy Friday at Sedgefield Country Club, where golfers had one eye on all those low-hanging clouds, one eye lining up all those birdie putts and another eye doing a double-take at the leaderboard wondering who that 16-year-old kid wa...
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Clubhouse co-leader Chris Riley nearly scored a million Wyndham Reward points when his tee shot on the par-3 16th hole rattled the flagstick Friday. Now it gets even more cruel: Riley didn't even make birdie as his ball careened off the pin and rolled jus...
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GREENSBORO -- It's hard to say what Todd Lewis likes more: playing golf or covering it. No matter, he does both with flair. Lewis, an anchor and reporter for "Golf Central," the daily newscast for The Golf Channel network, is in town this week f...
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August 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — The families of two Northern Guilford High basketball players banned last spring from competing in sports as seniors are asking a Superior Court judge to reinstate them, charging that Guilford County Schools denied the families due proc...
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GREENSBORO — If Wyndham Championship officials had their way — and let's face it, tournament chairman Bobby Long usually gets what he wants -- they'd stick Thursday's leaderboard in the back of the freezer and pull it out in time to thaw...
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August 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — You feel a little silly labeling a golfer who has already won $703,000 on the PGA Tour this year a "grinder." In word and deed, though, Matt Bettencourt is such a man. He's the quintessential everyday tour player, laboring mo...
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GREENSBORO — There are signs out here that Sedgefield might not be as vulnerable to birdies and eagles this week as it was during last year's inaugural Wyndham Championship. A year after Carl Pettersson brought the course to its knees with a winning...
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August 18, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Wyndham Championship is back this week for another year at Sedgefield Country Club. Another week of waxing nostalgic about Donald Ross and the course he designed. Another week of grown men close to misty eyed about a course from ano...
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GREENSBORO — Simon McGreal, a teaching pro at Precision Golf School in Greensboro, was one of four golfers to qualify Monday for this week's Wyndham Championship. David Robinson of Sandersville, Ga., shot 66 on the Bryan Park Champions course and wa...
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August 17, 2009
GREENSBORO — It’s getting harder to keep the cupboards filled at the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, so the group is turning to a previously untapped market for help: golf fans. People attending this week’s Wyndham...
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August 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — About the Wyndham Championship, which begins Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club, this much is certain: Sometime next Sunday evening, a golfer will bask in warm applause on the 18th green while juggling an oversized check, the Sam Snead...
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