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Hardin: Duke's Austin Rivers delivers against UNC

"Ed Hardin ()" — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0500

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 dramatic shots in the long and dramatic history of the Duke-Carolina series.

The first game is always special for ACC fans

"Ed Hardin ()" — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:00:00 -0500

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.

Hardin: Gottfried, Pack let one get away

"Ed Hardin ()" — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:00:00 -0500

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.

Hardin: N.C. State rallies from 27 down to beat Terps ‎

"Ed Hardin ()" — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:05:00 -0500

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 Saturday, something Philip Rivers never did, something Jamie Barnette, Jimmy Donnan and Roman Gabriel never did.

Hardin: As Carolina squirms, so does ACC

"Ed Hardin ()" — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:22:30 -0400

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. Carolina will argue its case, and the NCAA will then render its ruling at a later date.

Hardin: Deacons, Givens have come of age

"Ed Hardin ()" — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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. Not any time soon, anyway.

Hardin: Will NCAA stick it to Tar Heels?

"Ed Hardin ()" — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:09:43 -0400

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.

Hardin: This isn't the end of expansion

"Ed Hardin ()" — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:52:51 -0400

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.

Hardin: ACC wins big by playing its game

"Ed Hardin ()" — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:34:02 -0400

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.

Wake Forest AD discusses conference expansion

"Ed Hardin ()" — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:34:39 -0400

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.

Grasshoppers simply unforgettable

"Ed Hardin ()" — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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 fans, some of whom had almost forgotten what postseason in the South Atlantic League felt like.

Hardin: North Carolina's identity crisis

"Ed Hardin ()" — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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 new coach in Everett Withers, celebrated the birth of a child in Deizean Cayden Jones and unveiled the new-look Kenan Stadium.

Hardin: Isner aces Roddick's test

"Ed Hardin ()" — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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.

Roddick’s model wife can’t avoid sightseers

"Ed Hardin ()" — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:17:57 -0400

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.

Hardin: Isner looks to steal Roddick’s thunder

"Ed Hardin ()" — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:14:34 -0400

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 American and one of the best four players in the world.

Here’s the problem: He has to play John Isner first.

Hardin: Return to glory days for golf championship

"Ed Hardin ()" — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:58:33 -0400

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.

FedEx playoff is payoff for McGirt on final day

"Ed Hardin ()" — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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 tournament set the field for next week’s FedEx Cup playoffs.

Hardin: Looking forward to one more day in the sun this season

"Ed Hardin ()" — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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 endless playoff. Both are possible.

Hardin: Pied Piper of redneck golf needs big break

"Ed Hardin ()" — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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 Championship by three strokes heading into the weekend.

Hardin: Youth is not wasted on PGA tour

"Ed Hardin ()" — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:01:34 -0400

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 game that no longer includes Tiger Woods, at least not as a driving force. His presence, or his absence, is a footnote now.

Hardin: Dufner back on course at Wyndham

"Ed Hardin ()" — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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, anything was possible.

Hardin: Wyndham drives Greensboro back in game in big way

"Ed Hardin ()" — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:52:03 -0400

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.

When the tournament begins Thursday, the 73-year-old event will have turned a corner.

Historic fingerprints of golf in Triad

"Ed Hardin ()" — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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.

Wyndham not optimistic about Woods

"Ed Hardin ()" — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:14:03 -0400

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.

Hardin: Honorable but clueless devotion

"Ed Hardin ()" — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:00:00 -0400

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 decisions to fire the school's football coach and allow his athletics director to fall on the last sword available.