May 24, 2009
CONCORD -- They came from miles around for the first one, about 20 miles give or take. And that was about all anyone could've hoped for given the circumstances. The inaugural World 600 had already been postponed from its May 20, 1960 original date because...
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May 16, 2009
CONCORD — The longest spectacle in motorsports began late Friday afternoon when several thousand people stood outside the entrance to the Ford Grandstand nine abreast as thunder boomed overhead and lightning crashed in the distance. The rain came in...
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May 14, 2009
RALEIGH — A singular sports week in North Carolina started Wednesday evening when Richard Childress unveiled one of the most iconic treasures in our state: The black No. 3. The ceremony was held at the N.C. Museum of History at a special program kic...
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May 10, 2009
My mom was a teacher, is a teacher still, and always will be a teacher. She wasn't much of a sports fan, but she taught me everything I needed to know about them, why they mattered and why they didn't. I learned the difference between pride and pretense......
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May 6, 2009
GREENSBORO — The ACC announced Tuesday that the 2010 ACC Baseball Championship will be held in NewBridge Bank Park, a move brought on by economic concerns and the stadium's proximity to the league office. Meanwhile, the Grasshoppers said...
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May 3, 2009
The first cast of the season wasn't all that smooth. The line jerked and grabbed as it spooled from the reel for the first time in four months. And the worm didn't plop quietly under the targeted limb. Instead, it splashed down five yards short and five y...
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May 1, 2009
GREENSBORO — The games are easy until the adults get involved. School sports are innocent, and the kids just want to play the games and go home. But the adults always get involved. And they always screw things up. There might come a time in this cou...
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April 30, 2009
CHARLOTTE — The golf tournament starts here today under clouds of different colors. The old Wachovia Championship is no more, with the bank name soon to follow. The new colors flying here are those of the club itself as the new Quail Hollow Champion...
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April 26, 2009
CHARLOTTE -- On the day the bill arrived from last season, the Carolina Panthers took out another loan. One year after trading away their first-round pick in the NFL Draft, the Panthers gave away next years' first-round pick to move up and grab Florida St...
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April 25, 2009
GREENSBORO — Caroline Lind remembers dreaming of competing in the Olympics as she swam in the public pools of Greensboro all those years ago. Today, she’ll come home with a gold medal.She remembers competing as a young girl in sports that migh...
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April 17, 2009
RALEIGH — N.C. State hired a women's basketball coach Thursday. Not just any basketball coach, either. The Pack got the best young coach in America, the one at the top of everybody's list, the biggest star in the network. It was a great hire. And it...
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April 13, 2009
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Angel Cabrera won in the Easter gloaming after a spectacular Sunday at the Masters stretched almost into Sunday night. The man from Argentina whose nickname is El Pato (the Duck) waddled up and down the final holes at Augusta, including tw...
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April 12, 2009
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- A tornado ripped through here Friday night, and somehow not a pine needle at Augusta National was disturbed. Winds reported in excess of 100 mph blew across the Garden City of the South damaging homes and property, prompting weather warnin...
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April 9, 2009
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The backroads leading here are long and narrow, tree-lined lanes through Carolina towns stuck in another time. The sun came out in the South on the Wednesday before the Masters, thawing winter's hold and deflecting the worst fate in a...
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There have been times since he arrived in Chapel Hill from Swannanoa, interrupted once by Kansas, when ol’ Roy said he just wasn’t that good, and there were times when you’d have to agree with him.There were times this season when it loo...
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March 22, 2009
GREENSBORO -- North Carolina and Duke saved the ACC from a basketball apocalypse Saturday, sweeping their second-round games at the Greensboro Coliseum one day after one of the league's most ignominious falls from grace. Carolina got its point guard back...
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March 21, 2009
GREENSBORO - The national dialogue between the president and the coaches continued into Friday, which was the day coaches decided it was time to move on to more pressing concerns. If there ever was an indication of how big basketball is in North Caro...
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March 20, 2009
GREENSBORO — North Carolina and Duke survived another day under the same roof Thursday, rewriting records and going off in search of more Dove bars. Carolina demolished Radford 101-58 in the afternoon, and Duke dominated Binghamton 86-62 in the late...
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March 19, 2009
GREENSBORO — Mike Krzyzewski said he doesn't fill out an NCAA bracket, and he's not particularly interested in knowing what anyone else's looks like, either, especially that Obama guy who picked Carolina. Roy Williams said he'll watch the first game...
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March 16, 2009
Wake Forest will head to Miami to try to piece together an NCAA tournament run. The Deacs (24-6) play 13th-seeded Cleveland State on Friday in a pod that feeds into the Midwest Regional in Indianapolis. Wake is coming off a disastrous loss to Maryland in...
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ATLANTA -- Here comes Duke. Running on empty and up on two wheels, Duke careened out of Atlanta as if it had just stolen something Sunday afternoon. Mike Krzyzewski drove his team to another ACC championship, and now the Blue Devils head to Greensboro to...
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March 15, 2009
ATLANTA — The rain poured on Atlanta’s parade Saturday, stranding motorists in traffic, soaking long lines of tourists and washing away North Carolina from the ACC men’s basketball tournament.
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March 14, 2009
ATLANTA -- Wake Forest cracked under pressure Friday night and swept the pieces of a shattered season back to Winston-Salem. In a stunning exit from the ACC tournament, the second-seeded Deacons played their worst game of the season and lost 75-64 to Mary...
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March 13, 2009
ATLANTA — N.C. State returned to the city where it began its most unlikely journey 26 years ago, but history is sometimes elusive in the ACC tournament. There was no magic this time, only the end of a strange season and the beginning of another awkw...
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March 12, 2009
ATLANTA — The ACC tournament returns to a football stadium this week for the first time since it became a football conference, so it's fitting that a football school will win it. Wake Forest. There, we said it. The 24-5 Demon Deacons, seeded eighth...
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