July 20, 2008
GREENSBORO -- As the summer heat begins to wilt the very ground we walk on, we're reminded once again why being young is underrated. The cars will move slower this week, in part because of traffic patterns, but mainly because the air conditioners slow the...
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July 13, 2008
The strange PGA Tour, limping gamely into summer without Tiger Woods, is one month from limping gamely into Greensboro. Sedgefield Country Club is all quiet now, the stately clubhouse off Forsyth Drive stands sentinel over a tournament that is steadily g...
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July 6, 2008
PFAFFTOWN -- We pushed through the final few yards of underbrush, watching the ground before each step into the swampy muck that let us know we were close. The briars and honeysuckle were thicker now as we managed to grab one last handful and pull it apar...
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June 12, 2008
The announcement came a long, long way from Level Cross, far from the streets of Randleman where four generations of racers sprang from the Randolph County soil and changed a sport forever. The word that Petty Enterprises will give up control to a private...
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May 7, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM - I've never written about her before because I figured it would just make her mad, but this time I have to. Mary Garber was inducted Monday into the hall of fame of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. At the age of 92......
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March 30, 2008
CHARLOTTE — Getting back to a vertical game almost no one else can play, North Carolina blew into the Final Four over exhausted Louisville. Caught flat-footed in stylish loafers, Rick Pitino stood helplessly as Carolina dissected the only hopes he h...
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March 24, 2008
RALEIGH — Davidson slew the giant and shook down the firmament Sunday, delivering the NCAA tournament's defining moment in a shocking victory over eighth-ranked Georgetown. What's the biggest surprise of the tournament so far?
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March 21, 2008
RALEIGH -- At least Mount St. Mary's coach Milan Brown has family history on his side. Brown's younger brother, Marseilles, was the starting point guard for Richmond in 1998 when the 14th seeded Spiders knocked off No. 3 seed South Carolina in the first r...
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March 20, 2008
A friend of mine walked into a casino in Lost Wages, Nev., last year and looked out across a giant sports-book board and pulled the last $200 he owned from his pocket and uttered the most fateful words I have ever heard: "Everything on Drake!" H...
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March 16, 2008
CHARLOTTE — North Carolina won a college basketball game for the ages Saturday, shocking Virginia Tech 68-66 and rolling into today's championship game of the ACC tournament, where the Tar Heels will meet — shockingly — Clemson. Tyler Ha...
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March 14, 2008
CHARLOTTE -- The state of Florida flushed half of the Big Four from the ACC tournament before half the state of North Carolina even got home from work Thursday in one of the longest and most grueling afternoons in tournament history.
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December 9, 2007
CHAPEL HILL — Dudley football's finest hour came after years of waiting. Years of toil and triumph over things that had nothing to do with football finally ended Saturday evening when the Panthers won the state 3-AA championship 28-20 over Charlotte...
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March 21, 2007
RALEIGH — Kay Yow is headed west with her team, about four months after it left without her at the start of the long journey that has been N.C. State's most remarkable run. In what a legion of State fans hope will not be her last game on the Wolfpack be...
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March 1, 2007
GREENSBORO — Kay Yow gave herself the day off Wednesday, which shocked some people and probably rankled Yow to no end. This is hardly the time of year when basketball coaches get days off. But this is hardly the kind of year most coaches endure. The thi...
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January 26, 2007
RALEIGH — Sandra Kay Yow walked onto the court inside Reynolds Coliseum and took a long look around. Most everything was as she left it. A long and loud ovation had begun as she cased the joint, her sunken eyes darting as she looked at her team and her...
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