November 21, 2009
GREENSBORO -- About an hour-and-a-half before the tip-off of UNCG's basketball renaissance Friday night, a marching band went stomping through the parking lot. Students cordoned off by traffic cones and barbecue grills cheered, and a line of cars entering...
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November 16, 2009
CHARLOTTE — After fighting against the current to get back to significance in the NFL, the Carolina Panthers took down their rivals Sunday and sent a message to the league. Sort of. The message was something along the lines of, we're just as good as...
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November 13, 2009
GREENSBORO — The regular season ended, and the chaos ensued. After a tempest-tossed year in which Ragsdale beat Dudley, and R.J. Reynolds beat everybody else, all three somehow finished in a tie that created about what you'd expect: the perfect stor...
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November 8, 2009
Roy Williams has a new book out, and the Dean Dome has a glitzy new light show. The spoils of victory are sometimes hard to figure. Duke has a renewed interest in recruiting, thus college basketball has a renewed interest in Duke. State's heralded freshma...
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November 5, 2009
CHARLOTTE — They were about to cart Brad Hoover off the field Sunday as the crowd politely applauded and the Panthers quietly worried. He rolled on the ground in obvious pain while his Carolina Panthers teammates looked on in amazement. The toughest...
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October 29, 2009
CHARLOTTE — Say what you will about the Carolina Panthers, but they are loyal to their own. To a fault.
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October 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — Kellie Harper was late. Every coach in the ACC was gathered at midcourt of the Greensboro Coliseum floor Monday, every coach except the newest member of the conference. She was busy talking.
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October 26, 2009
CHARLOTTE — On what was likely the last Sunday of the season for the Panthers to catch their breath, Carolina choked on the rare air of an easy win. Buffalo, with an offense that couldn't get out of its own way, stunned the Panthers 20-9 to end any...
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October 25, 2009
MARTINSVILLE -- The rain poured here Saturday, and the creeks rose and the red-clay valley filled with noise. Racing returned to its roots this weekend in the midst of a chase no one seems all that interested in watching, a sport waning in the shadow of i...
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October 23, 2009
CHAPEL HILL — The old man won't go down without a fight. With vultures flying overhead and Tar Heel voices screaming all around him, Bobby Bowden pulled off still another win over North Carolina on a strange Thursday night in strangely lighted Kenan...
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October 12, 2009
CHARLOTTE — On the biggest play of the season, Kenny Moore didn't score two touchdowns. John Fox didn't throw his hat into the air, and a capacity crowd didn't celebrate the first Panthers win in 287 days. All that would come later.
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October 11, 2009
RALEIGH — Duke went down an old familiar road Saturday after a long time wandering. For the first time in 25 years, the Blue Devils went to N.C. State and won a football game. As the clouds gathered in the closing minutes over a Wolfpack program sud...
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October 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — Chris Paul's weekend has passed, and Chris Paul's homecoming, too. Thursday night, Chris Paul's basketball team came to the coliseum to play your Charlotte Bobcats.
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October 8, 2009
CHARLOTTE — The 0-3 Carolina Panthers went back to work Wednesday, going through the motions all 0-3 teams take to make sure they don’t become 0-4. A large contingent of media creeps were on hand to take the team’s pulse and to report th...
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October 4, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — Kenny Okoro was minding his own business Saturday afternoon when he saw an entire football game coming his way. He'd been waiting all week. Okoro, a redshirt freshman from Greensboro in his first collegiate start, intercepted a pass...
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October 2, 2009
It started with a shoestring, just one, and all these years later Stephanie Glance continues to be amazed at how many lives have been tied together. Such a simple idea started such an enormous movement. The life and death of her friend, Kay Yow, seems now...
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September 24, 2009
CHARLOTTE — There are two ways to look at what's about to happen to the Carolina Panthers. All in all, they're about where they thought they'd be right now, coming off a loss to the Falcons and heading into a tough road game in Palace Dallas. But th...
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CHARLOTTE -- There are two ways to look at what's about to happen to the Carolina Panthers. All in all, they're about where they thought they'd be right now, coming off a loss to the Falcons and heading into a tough road game in Palace Dallas. But...
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September 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — Bill Hayes is one of us. And he always has been. Even when he was over there at Winstson-Salem State, the hated Rams who made life miserable for our Aggies all those years ago. And even before that when he was at Wake Forest during the...
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September 20, 2009
CHAPEL HILL — The long, slow rebuilding project at North Carolina continued Saturday, and another muttering retreat continued for East Carolina. The intermittent rivalry that is UNC-ECU turned another page with Carolina winning 31-17 and moving onto...
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September 17, 2009
CHARLOTTE — A.J. Feeley wanted to become a member of the Carolina Panthers for the long-term. But he doesn't want the starting job. Such is the mindset of the quarterback who would replace Jake Delhomme. Irate fans found out Wednesday there are no m...
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September 14, 2009
CHARLOTTE — Booooooo!The moribund Panthers, still sleepwalking after an immediate exit from the playoffs a year ago, fell hard to the Philadelphia Eagles 38-10 Sunday on one of the longest days in franchise history. Jake Delhomme, whose six turnove...
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September 13, 2009
When last we saw the Panthers play, all was not well. The quarterback was in a fog, the defense was in a trance and the coach was in over his head. In the months since, all has been worse. The franchise defensive end wants out, the defensive midsection ha...
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September 11, 2009
They’ll induct our state’s most celebrated athlete into his sport’s most hallowed shrine today. No one ever deserved it more.Maybe now Michael Jordan will accept his state’s sincere gesture, too.The greatest basketball player to ev...
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September 6, 2009
GREENVILLE — Matt Dodge breathed a sigh of relief when East Carolina's uneasy 29-24 win over Appalachian State was finally over Saturday afternoon. And he wasn't alone. Dodge, a former ASU punter who transferred to ECU during Appalachian's national......
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