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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September 4, 2009
RALEIGH — With about three minutes to play Thursday night, the game between N.C. State and South Carolina was up for grabs. A few seconds later, it was over.State, reduced to a desperate attempt to crack the Gamecocks’ stout defense, drew up a...
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September 3, 2009
There's a chill in the air and funny noises coming from Down East. It must be college football season. The leaves on the trees are getting brittle, and the first few are letting go of the branches. The hurricanes are back, though Miami might not be, the k...
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August 30, 2009
CHARLOTTE — The last dress rehearsal of the season was hardly the seamless performance the Carolina Panthers were looking for. And if candid comments by John Fox are an indication, the coming days of practice might be like boot camp. With key player...
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August 24, 2009
GREENSBORO — Finally getting its day in the sun, the Wyndham Championship finally looked comfortable in its summer setting. After years of hand-wringing over its sweltering date on the PGA calendar and three days of wringing out a wet golf course, S...
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August 23, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The rain-plagued Wyndham Championship took another hit Saturday afternoon when a summer deluge sent home a huge crowd just as Sedgefield Country Club was turned into a water park. The good news is that everyone is invited back today......
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August 22, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The kids are coming. And they're better than you can possibly imagine. We've heard it before. Saw it with our own eyes when the kids rolled through here a decade ago, just passing through Greensboro on their way to stardom. In many way...
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August 21, 2009
GREENSBORO — The thunder rolled up the highway Thursday morning, and lightning bolts shot from the dark clouds just after noon. Then the rains came. The Wyndham Championship came to a sliding stop, then chaos ensued. Umbrellas blew inside out as mom...
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August 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — A hot wind blew up from the hollow below the 18th green Wednesday, carrying the smell of golf on its billow and guiding wayward slices into the lush green Bermuda grass that is Sedgefield's only defense. As the 70th edition of Greensbor...
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August 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — In the first week of golf after the fall of Tiger, the sport moves on. Only days after glory's last shot, now comes the first ricochet. We're a day out from the Wyndham Championship as golf resumes its routine, a routine that was altere...
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August 16, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The clubhouse stands like a citadel against time as the old water tower rusts above it, and Sedgefield Country Club quietly awaits what is sure to be another attack on its golf course. Some of the best players in the world, aside from...
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August 13, 2009
They are among our most beautiful pieces of land, historic layouts that meander through 150-year-old trees and alongside brooks and streams. We have more than 550 golf courses here in North Carolina, more than any state but three. Some 72 are within an ho...
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August 9, 2009
CHARLOTTE - Taking a break from Spartanburg and settling into their friendly confines Saturday, the Carolina Panthers ran their first full-pad scrimmage of summer. Under the eyes of several thousand curious fans, the Panthers unveiled their de...
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August 2, 2009
Jamaal Anderson and his coach, Dan Reeves, stood on the Atlanta sidelines of a game in 2001 on the brink of something neither one fully understood. The stands weren't anywhere near filled. They hadn't been for a few years as the Falcons had once again bot...
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July 29, 2009
Golf can be a cruel game even to those who play it best. Carl Pettersson found that out the hard way as he wandered away from Sedgefield a year ago and wandered back Thursday a changed man. A hungry man. He won the Wyndham Championship last August, return...
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July 27, 2009
GREENSBORO — Riley Skinner believes Tim Tebow is the best quarterback in the SEC, just for the record. And if Wake Forest is to continue its stunning resurgence as a Southeastern football power, Skinner might have to be the best quarterback in the A...
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July 26, 2009
One week from today, the Carolina Panthers will open training camp and the long season will begin. A whistle will blow, and a roster that looks an awful lot like the roster from the past three seasons will take the first steps toward an outcome no one can...
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July 19, 2009
BALSAM MOUNTAIN — Even the paved road up here has grass growing through it, a sign of little traffic in the wilderness above the clouds. Rhododendron and mountain laurel carpet the land in splashes of color in an otherwise dark green environment. A...
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July 12, 2009
WALKERTOWN -- Someone once described a fisherman as a hook at one end and a fool at the other, and that's as apt a definition as any. Why else would I be standing in the afternoon sun on the banks of a pond with no name, sweat pouring off me while I held...
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July 4, 2009
LEVEL CROSS — The roads are paved here now, and the race shop's a museum. For the first time in more than 50 years, Branson Mill Road seems quiet. If you drive past the old complex on the left, past Lee and Elizabeth's house and on out across the co...
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June 30, 2009
PINEHURST -- Aaron Stewart will finally walk where his father walked today, taking the last strides up the 18th fairway and, he hopes, the first giant steps toward the same road his dad took years ago. Ten years after the late Payne Stewart won the riveti...
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June 28, 2009
GREENSBORO -- UNCG's philosopher-AD will step down Tuesday, partly for philosophical reasons and partly for athletic reasons. Either way, the Spartans will have lost a good one. Nelson Bobb, 61, will leave after 26 years at the helm of a sports program al...
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June 26, 2009
CHARLOTTE -- The annual dismantling of North Carolina's college basketball teams came and went Thursday night, and the state's pro team took another shot at significance in the NBA draft.
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June 4, 2009
GREENSBORO — She struck quite a figure, tall, thin and matronly, standing over putts at Starmount Forest long after she’d lost her firm grip on the game of golf. People would walk past and say hello, and others would just stand and watch. Marg...
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