February 9, 2012
CHAPEL HILL — Austin Rivers broke the hearts of the Tar Heels, and Duke stole the game. Rivers, a freshman in the game of his life, pulled up from no-man's land with the game in his hands and nailed a 3-pointer as time expired in one of the most dra...
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February 8, 2012
Tonight is like a holiday in this state, an event removed from all the other events of February, a celebration of basketball with nothing riding on it but the game itself. Duke vs. North Carolina. The first game.
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December 1, 2011
RALEIGH — The game ended with the new coach stripped down to his shiny cuff links, and the crowd incensed over everything real and perceived. N.C. State lost 86-75 to Indiana as another chapter of Wolfpack basketball lurched into another December.
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November 27, 2011
RALEIGH — Late in the third quarter, N.C. State showed up for its last regular-season football game. But more importantly, so did Maryland. And so did Mike Glennon. The beleaguered N.C. State quarterback did something Russell Wilson never did Saturd...
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October 28, 2011
Today is a day of reckoning for North Carolina football, and all its neighbors are watching. The investigation into the mess at Carolina will reach a critical point today when the NCAA infractions committee meets with UNC officials in Indianapolis. Caroli...
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October 9, 2011
WINSTON-SALEM — Wake Forest defeated Florida State 35-30 on Saturday afternoon. Or maybe Florida State lost to Wake Forest 30-35. Either way, the Deacs are 3-0 in the ACC for the first time. Ever. And FSU is not going to win a national title again.
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September 20, 2011
North Carolina was sent to the woodshed Monday to get its own switch. Now we’ll have to see whether the NCAA sends Carolina back out for a bigger stick.
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September 19, 2011
The expansion movement won’t stop here.The bold move by the ACC during the weekend, a move that left the Big East stammering and the rest of the country somewhat stunned, was almost certainly the first of what is likely a two-part plan for the ACC.
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September 18, 2011
On one of the biggest football Saturdays in ACC history, the 58-year-old league played its best hand. As the landscape of college football seemed to shift from under it, the ACC confirmed that it was about to add two schools.
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September 17, 2011
Without confirming or denying his knowledge of Pitt or Syracuse possibly joining the ACC as early as today, Wake Forest athletics director Ron Wellman told the News & Record on Saturday that both would be good partners for the conference.
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September 8, 2011
GREENSBORO — The sun came out Wednesday afternoon over NewBridge Bank Park, and the boys of summer played on. And on and on and on. Greensboro hosted its first minor-league playoff game since 1999, much to the delight of the Hoppers' long-suffering...
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September 4, 2011
CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina resumed normal football activities Saturday afternoon, beating James Madison 42-10 about 40 days and 40 nights after firing Butch Davis. The beleaguered Tar Heels found a new hero in quarterback Bryn Renner, introduced a...
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August 27, 2011
WINSTON-SALEM -- John Isner said he was lucky, and Andy Roddick agreed. Or rather, Roddick said Isner was lucky. Isner agreed with that, too. Whatever.
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August 26, 2011
WINSTON-SALEM — Brooklyn Decker got up from the grandstands after her husband’s match Thursday and walked in the opposite direction of those hoping to stop her for a chat, an autograph, a photo, whatever …About 25 men followed her.
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WINSTON-SALEM — Here’s the storyline: Andy Roddick is back from his injury, rolling through this tournament like a hot knife through sweet cream, getting ready to play the U.S. Open next week where he’ll regain his form as the top Americ...
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August 22, 2011
GREENSBORO — Webb Simpson entered into golfing lore Sunday afternoon, winning the Wyndham Championship and taking his place alongside so many who came before him.Some of them stood where he stood. Some of them only came close.
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GREENSBORO — There were winners and losers Sunday in the Wyndham Championship, the last tournament on the PGA Tour’s regular-season schedule and the only one that sends players on to the playoffs and sends others home.The tournament within the...
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August 21, 2011
GREENSBORO -- A final day in the sun. That's what it's come down to. A day in the hot North Carolina sun. With a beach in the background. And the sound of golf balls instead of school buses. The endless summer ends today. Barring torrential rain. Or an en...
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August 20, 2011
GREENSBORO -- Tommy Two Gloves. The nickname precedes him. It evokes images of a Jazz Age gangster. Or maybe a children's book character. He's not even close to that. Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey is a redneck golfer. And he's leading the Wyndham Ch...
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August 18, 2011
GREENSBORO — Like a bulldozer in time, a new game is changing the landscape of golf. When the 72nd Wyndham Championship tees off this morning, an era will fade into the background.Professional golf, as we've known it, is no more. In its place is a g...
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August 17, 2011
GREENSBORO — Jason Dufner walked to the first tee Tuesday morning and went through his now familiar pre-shot routine, waggling and waggling and waggling and wondering what in the world was about to happen next. With what he'd just been through, anyt...
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August 15, 2011
GREENSBORO — With its eye on the future, and with a nod to the past, the Wyndham Championship has arrived.The 2011 Wyndham Championship is a modern revival of an age-old idea, the realization of something no one dared dream all those years ago. ...
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August 12, 2011
GREENSBORO — Donald Ross designed not one but two golf courses in Greensboro in the early 20th century, a testament to his work ethic as much as the city’s newfound interest in a game not many people were familiar with.
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July 29, 2011
Tiger Woods’ recent announcement that he would test his game next week at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a good thing for golf but possibly a bad thing for those who hoped he would play in Greensboro in August.
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CHAPEL HILL — By all accounts, Holden Thorp is a good man, a good academic, a good chancellor, a good organist. But he has no clue about sports. He stood before a gathering of inquisitors Thursday and admitted as much, clumsily explaining his decisi...
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