July 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — Youth and a lack of depth were not a problem for the Greensboro-based Lady Phoenix basketball team in Tampa, Fla., on July 7.Sporting just an eight-player squad, the team rolled through the Girls USSSA National Championship 12U division...
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July 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — A 200-meter, 400-meter combination isn’t out of the ordinary for a track star. In fact, that was the specialty of legendary American sprinter Michael Johnson.But when there’s a runner who can add the 800-meter, too, you&rsqu...
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July 22, 2009
GREENSBORO — Kyle Skipworth has forged a nice little relationship with adversity. That's what happens when your first two years of professional baseball have been spent hovering around the dreaded Mendoza line. And when strikeouts are an all-too-com...
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July 18, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The Carolina Dynamo needed just a draw Friday night against the Fredericksburg Gunners to claim their desired spot in the upcoming playoffs. And though they kept things a bit tense with some early impotency in front of the visitor's net, in...
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July 15, 2009
GREENSBORO — The YMCA Bears had a standout performance in the Community Swim Association City Meet this past weekend, but a strange mix-up kept them from claiming a meet record. On Friday, the YMCA 13-14 girl's 200-yard medley relay posted a meet-re...
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July 12, 2009
GREENSBORO — The YMCA Bears certainly weren't one of the larger teams at the Community Swim Association City Meet. In just their sixth season in the CSA, they came into the three-day event with only 60 athletes — the fifth-smallest amount amon...
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July 11, 2009
GREENSBORO -- With more than 2,100 swimmers in the CSA City Meet at Lindley Park Pool, there's plenty of different experience levels in the water. Some of the younger swimmers are just getting an introduction to competition, while others have been trainin...
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July 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — The very nature of a swimsuit leaves plenty of skin out in the open. And at the Community Swim Association's 2009 City Championship at Lindley Pool on Thursday, those open spaces were put to good use as many swimmers walked around &mdas...
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July 9, 2009
GREENSBORO — Twelve-year-old Courtney Pyburn displays all the warning signs of a swim-a-holic.For starters, she has a clear-cut case of pool toe. And when the family skips a day on the water, she's got that pleading look in her eye.Sunburns? Oh, yes...
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July 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — Slumps are part of the natural ebb and flow of a baseball season. But when they come at the wrong time, things become a bit more problematic. The Hoppers are officially in a rut after dropping the series finale to Lake County on Tuesday...
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July 7, 2009
GREENSBORO — Starting pitching was again the strong part of the Hoppers' game on Monday night against Lake County. But instead of the timely hitting that was present on Sunday, Greensboro turned in a meek performance at the plate and on the bases as...
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July 6, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The Hoppers didn't come up with many runs Sunday evening at NewBridge Bank Park. But with Johnny Dorn on the mound, that wasn't a requirement. Dorn continued his strong season by allowing no earned runs and four hits in eight innings against...
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July 4, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The nature of the minor leagues revolves around movement -- preferably upward, as players work for promotions toward the major league level. But for much of the first part of this season, speedy Hoppers outfielder Isaac Galloway has found hi...
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June 30, 2009
GREENSBORO -- The U.S. national team shocked the soccer world last week by stunning top-ranked Spain and taking Brazil to the brink during the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa. Those games claimed the headlines, but the lower layers of the U.S. soc...
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June 28, 2009
ADVANCE -- The Carolina Dynamo attack was threatening in the first half of Saturday evening's game against the Virginia Legacy, but with only one goal, it certainly wasn't lethal. "The first half we didn't really play our game," forward Cody Arn...
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June 26, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Minor-league baseball is a different animal. Every year, thousands of young men toil in stadiums like Greensboro's NewBridge Bank Park. Promotions, demotions, releases, signings, rookie ball, Double-A, fall ball -- it never ends. And the uni...
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June 20, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Whatever problems the track and field athletes had Friday at the Nike Outdoor Nationals, warming up certainly shouldn't have been one of them. The nation's best high schoolers took center stage at N.C. A&T's Irwin Belk Track on a toasty...
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June 19, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Just a short while after hosting some state high school track and field championships, A&T's Irwin Belk Track is set for the national stage during the next few days. With a logo painted in the middle of the field and swoosh signs through...
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June 16, 2009
GREENSBORO — The Grasshoppers looked like a dead carcass with vultures circling at several points during the second game of Monday's doubleheader against the Hickory Crawdads. But that's why you play all nine ... er, make that seven innings. The Hop...
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June 13, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Just moments after finishing a round that won him the American Junior Golf Association's FootJoy Invitational on Friday at Sedgefield Country Club, Justin Thomas was on the phone calling his dad. "He was pretty excited," Thomas sai...
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June 10, 2009
GREENSBORO — When Jordan Spieth reached Sedgefield Country Club on Tuesday morning for the opening round of the FootJoy Invitational, he wasn't even sure he would be competing. The No. 3 player in the Polo Golf Rankings had pulled out of Monday's pr...
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June 8, 2009
CHAPEL HILL — The win itself — a 9-3 triumph over East Carolina on Sunday defined by quality pitching and timely hits — was nothing out of the ordinary. It's the repetition of these NCAA tournament victories that is the story, as they ha...
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June 7, 2009
RALEIGH -- With nine in the lineup and 11 on the roster, this baseball season was always about the McMichael seniors. So naturally the ball was in their possession when the year came to a euphoric close Saturday afternoon at N.C. State's Doak Field. First...
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June 6, 2009
RALEIGH -- With an ace like McMichael's Joseph Hughes on the mound, logic says you're in good shape if you put a few runs on the board. And when you put up 16, well, good shape is an understatement. McMichael scored 12 runs in the first two innings agains...
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June 5, 2009
MAYODAN -- Mike Dalton isn't shocked that his McMichael baseball team is getting set for the school's first state final appearance today against Morganton Patton. In fact, the first-year head coach has seen this one in the making for years. "Yeah, I...
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