September 18, 2008
A new age of communication is upon us. Steve Smith has discovered blogging. The troubled wideout for the Carolina Panthers returned to practice Wednesday in front of an expected horde of media awaiting his post-practice assessment of his workout, his cond...
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September 16, 2008
CHAPEL HILL -- Butch Davis still walks the straight and narrow path to success, and North Carolina has a football team that will follow him. That hasn't been the case here in recent seasons, about a decade's worth in fact, an eternity in college football.
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September 15, 2008
CHARLOTTE -- Fire-breathing mad and demanding his team take immediate revenge, John Fox sank his teeth into the Chicago Bears and didn't let go. A hit to the head of quarterback Jake Delhomme sparked a spitting tirade on the sideline as Fox ranted at offi...
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September 12, 2008
CONCORD -- You'd feel the cars before you saw them. The earth would vibrate as the big V8s would unwind coming down U.S. 29, off of Eastway and Sugar Creek, spilling out of Charlotte every Saturday night for the greatest spectacle in all of motorsports. D...
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September 11, 2008
CHARLOTTE -- Jake Delhomme walked into the locker room Wednesday afternoon as the reigning hero of his team, his league and his sport. He stood in front of the same locker he stood at a season ago when he was injured, hurt and demoralized. He stood above...
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September 7, 2008
CHARLOTTE — The buzz is back. This time it doesn't come with a Sports Illustrated cover or the overblown expectations of so-called experts or even the hubris of the organization. This time, the Panthers have kept their mouths shut and let the noise bel...
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August 31, 2008
GREENSBORO — After searching for almost three years, N.C. A&T finally found somebody it could beat. After losing 27 straight games, the fourth-longest streak in NCAA Division I-AA history, the Aggies and coach Lee Fobbs defeated Johnson C. Smith 44......
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August 30, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM — The words still ring through the years, from the last time death visited Reynolds football, and they still sting. “Then the locals punted out, and on the eve of what was to be the most brilliant victory in the history of the school cam...
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August 29, 2008
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A night of color and pageantry was made somber Thursday evening, first by an injury to a football player and then by the game itself. South Carolina defeated N.C. State 34-0 in a game neither team will want to remember and State quarter...
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August 28, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Wake Forest flew out of the chaos Wednesday and into the wild, wild West, trying to leave the craziness behind. N.C. State will march right into the chaos on the first night of college football. What happens next is anyone's guess, but as...
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August 24, 2008
CHARLOTTE -- Seconds into the third practice game of the year, the entire season was rolling around on the stadium grass. A hush fell over the crowd as a referee's echoing instructions to the clock operator was to go back in time. That seemed like a good...
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August 22, 2008
When the weather vane spins, and the wind picks up carrying the first hint of autumn in the air, it means one thing and one thing only. When the smell of grass hits you in the evening, and the breeze feels cooler than it should and you think of pulling a...
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August 18, 2008
GREENSBORO -- A red shirt broke through a sea of red shirts flowing down the fairway at No. 18 on Sunday at Sedgefield Country Club, and Carl Pettersson walked across a rustic footbridge and into Wyndham Championship history. The local boy trudged the fi...
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August 17, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Playing board member's bounces with the confidence of a local, Carl Pettersson put himself in position Saturday to do something he dreamed of as a kid at Grimsley. He has one more round, one more chance to work out the nagging problem at the...
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August 16, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The threesome remains intact, but no one has much faith in it remaining an exclusive club forever. Carl Pettersson's second-round 61 early Friday, seemed to suggest Sedgefield was once again there for the taking, just as it was during the Bu...
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August 15, 2008
GREENSBORO — Brandt Snedeker wore purple Thursday for the first round of the Wyndham Championship. The 2007 champion and sponsor's darling wowed the crowd with his élan and his guile. That was one day after telling people here, "Y'all got hosed." Snede...
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August 14, 2008
The lights attract people from far away, like beacons in the night guiding folks from their busy lives to a relaxed atmosphere downtown. The center of Greensboro isn’t a skyscraper but a ballpark. Now finishing its fourth season, NewBridge Bank Park is...
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GREENSBORO -- The old Embassy Club is long gone now, burned to the ground after a dance one night. Its foundation is still visible through the tall grass, a rough outline of the wild weekend nights we once spent here. The old Manor House is gone, too, the...
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August 10, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Standing on the second tee at Sedgefield Country Club, you see what Donald Ross saw almost a century ago. A long, lazy field of green, shaped by God and unspoiled by man. And possibly a few pheasant rising from the tall grass and winging awa...
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CHARLOTTE -- On a field shortened by their defense, the Carolina Panthers made short work of the Indianapolis Colts, winning 14-3 Saturday night in a game that ended after about nine minutes. The first exhibition of the season for the Panthers was a seaml...
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August 7, 2008
By the time most of us had awakened Wednesday morning, Joey Cheek had started another international incident.President Bush had already been called, and the White House was considering a response. Cheek was on the front page of The Washington Post.Again.A...
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August 3, 2008
CHARLOTTE -- Steve Smith's right about one thing. We really don't know him. But he's wrong about basically everything else. Smith was suspended for two regular-season games Saturday by the Carolina Panthers in response to their wide receiver slugging corn...
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July 30, 2008
Some 48 hours after one of the worst days in stock-car racing history, NASCAR still didn't know what happened. Confused, shocked, embarrassed and probably more than a little concerned, the sanctioning body saw its future flash before its eyes at Indianapo...
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July 27, 2008
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Training camp began Saturday morning for the Carolina Panthers with Jake Delhomme at quarterback. And not Brett Favre. Delhomme chased his offense out of the huddle for the first practice play from scrimmage and looked out across the f...
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July 24, 2008
GREENSBORO -- On a hot and steamy Wednesday, in the middle of summer, Duke football re-introduced itself to North Carolina. David Cutcliffe, the Blue Devils' new coach, stood before his toughest audience and made a promise. "We're gonna shake this thing u...
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