March 9, 2009
CHAPEL HILL -- The sun broke through the windows of the Dean Dome late Sunday afternoon, and long beams of light shone through. It was like something out of a time gone by. North Carolina shook off the cobwebs of history again, defeating Duke 79-71 in the...
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March 8, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Duke upset the natural order of things Saturday, jolting Florida State from the ACC women's tournament and setting up a final against its unnatural nemesis. That would be Maryland, not North Carolina. A couple of hours after th...
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March 7, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Unlikely underdog North Carolina caught a wave from the crowd and rode past upstart Clemson as the ACC women's tournament headed into the weekend amid looming uncertainty. Seeded fourth and presumably out of the spotlight for the first time...
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March 6, 2009
GREENSBORO — The finality of it was more than they could take. After a year of unimaginable pain, the N.C. State women's basketball season ended Thursday. After a season of searing emotions, Kay Yow's last team saw the most cherished thing it had left r...
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March 5, 2009
GREENSBORO — Basketball is big business in North Carolina, and this is the capital. The machinery of the industry chugged to life Wednesday when a horn sounded inside the Greensboro Coliseum and suddenly the moving parts were in motion. The balloons st...
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March 1, 2009
There's a disturbance in the force, or at least in the NFC South, and the Carolina Panthers are trying to figure out what it means to them. Early indications are it means absolutely nothing. While much of the NFL leaped into the free-agency frenzy early F...
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February 27, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — In a game that seemed a microcosm of its entire season, Wake Forest staggered past N.C. State 85-78 Thursday night, an outcome that might portend better things to come for the Deacons. Or it might've just been a good night to be playing...
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February 23, 2009
DURHAM — Mike Krzyzewski came out swinging, and glass-jawed Wake Forest went down hard Sunday night. Duke beat the Deacons 101-91 in a game torn from the pages of ancient times in the ACC, a full-throttle affair between two teams fighting for the same t...
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February 19, 2009
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina shook off N.C. State and the ACC's latest attempt to stop the Heels as they get ready for what's looking like a national sprint to the finish. And then Roy Williams cussed.
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February 16, 2009
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- With its marquee player lost in the clouds, and the fireworks of the opening event getting soggy, NASCAR pulled the plug on the Daytona 500 on Sunday night. Matt Kenseth was in the lead, and Kevin Harvick was in second, and both car...
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February 15, 2009
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Kyle Petty went home Saturday, and he won't be watching the race today. Richard Petty will watch from the pit stalls, but he might as well be home. They'll run the 51st Daytona 500 today with no Petty in the field, the first time th...
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February 12, 2009
DURHAM -- The thermostat was turned up on the Duke-Carolina rivalry Wednesday night, turning Cameron Indoor Speedway into an oil slick and leaving us to wonder if either of the old rivals will allow the other to be the best in the nation.
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February 8, 2009
One week from the 51st running of the Daytona 500, there's no buzz in the air. Only days away from the Twin 150s (or the Gatordade Duel, as they're now known) and there's not even any noise. This happens from time to time, and it's almost never a good thi...
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February 6, 2009
The first test of the great experiment was a rousing success Thursday night as Davidson throttled UNCG 75-54 before 11,687 fans in Greensboro Coliseum. OK, so maybe the basketball part of it didn't work out. A plan hatched by city and universi...
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February 1, 2009
RALEIGH -- A game that didn't deserve to be remembered for all time won't be. An end-game brawl that had no business happening didn't. North Carolina defeated N.C. State 93-76 Saturday afternoon right before they cleared the floor of the debris and got re...
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January 30, 2009
RALEIGH -- Pink ribbons draped the tubas, and the old end zone clock was stuck on five minutes past five. On the first night of N.C. State basketball without Kay Yow, time seemed to stand still. And then it was about basketball.
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January 29, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM -- The entire college basketball season continued to play out in Joel Coliseum on another wild night in the Twin City. Wake Forest, only a week removed from the top ranking in the country, took down No. 1 Duke on the same floor o...
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January 26, 2009
CHARLOTTE -- Now comes the reckoning. The economics of losing is harder on those not accustomed to it, and the shocking dismantling of the 2008-09 Carolina Panthers has shaken this city right down to its banking core. In a troubling display of profit-taki...
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January 25, 2009
Kay Yow, who began playing basketball on a dirt court in Gibsonville and ended up being one of the most important people in the game, died Saturday morning after a long fight with cancer. Her life was basketball, but her legacy will be the fight. She beca...
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January 22, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM -- Virginia Tech elbowed its way past top-ranked Wake Forest on a bloody Wednesday night in ACC basketball. Three days of the No. 1 ranking was too much for the Deacons, who lost 78-71 then reasoned that maybe it was for the best. A team tha...
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January 20, 2009
CHAPEL HILL -- Top-ranked UConn blistered second-ranked North Carolina 88-58 Monday night in the kind of game that goes a long way in women's basketball. Coming out of this one, there were several indications of what's to come. If there's a be...
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January 18, 2009
CLEMSON, S.C. -- The last two undefeated teams in the ACC met at the rim Saturday, and only one was standing at the end. Wake Forest, ranked second in the nation, knocked down 10th-ranked Clemson on its own floor to win the biggest game of the...
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January 12, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM -- North Carolina solidified its strange hold on last place in the ACC, and Wake Forest made its case as the best team in the land on a rollicking Sunday night in the Twin City.
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January 11, 2009
CHARLOTTE -- The Panthers always break your heart. In one of the darkest days in the history of a franchise that has known many dark days, the Carolina Panthers were slapped around by the Arizona Cardinals and drummed out of the NFL playoffs Saturday nigh...
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January 10, 2009
CHARLOTTE -- The pace quickened Friday evening as the Carolina Panthers and their fans made last-minute adjustments for tonight's epochal event. Things like mud cleats and rain coats and umbrellas and extra towels were being stacked in corners as the team...
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