November 20, 2009
GREENSBORO - At this point, Major Bryant can be promoted to General and nobody will argue.
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February 3, 2009
GREENSBORO -- Kenny Drummond, who runs a Greensboro-based academy for basketball players with college hoop dreams, faces arrest for trying to raise money online without a license. In December, the N.C. Secretary of State's office issued a cease-and-desist...
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December 30, 2008
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- After earning first-team All-ACC acclaim, N.C. State quarterback Russell Wilson can probably be credited with a new, unofficial and entirely theoretical honor: MVP in Absentia, Papajohns.com Bowl.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The N.C. State football team didn't win the Papajohns.com Bowl, but its fan base staved off potential disaster for the three-year-old game. With an estimated 10,000 State supporters in attendance, the contest announced a crowd of 38,58...
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December 29, 2008
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Rutgers' high-powered, quick-strike offense, held in check for much of the game, hit the long ball when Mike Teel found his favorite target, Kenny Britt, for a 42-yard touchdown with 8:30 left that restored the lead to the Scarlet Knig...
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Ideally, most football teams would rather be known for scoring 50 points a game or shutting opponents out. As the 2008 N.C. State Wolfpack has proven, however, there's also something to be said for not screwing up.
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December 28, 2008
CHARLOTTE -- For a record holder and perpetual winner, Pat White certainly absorbed plenty of grief in four years as West Virginia's quarterback. Now the message-board trolls must cease their typing, the longtime listeners and first-time callers must hang...
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CHARLOTTE -- Either Hakeem Nicks or the North Carolina Tar Heels will win a football lottery of sorts in 2009. The smart money's on Nicks. If the Heels' junior wide receiver has, in fact, played his last college game en route to the NFL draft, he'll exit...
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December 27, 2008
CHARLOTTE -- Did the North Carolina Tar Heels aspire to the Orange Bowl? Of course they did. ACC football in 2008 was an oversized version of youth league ball: pats on the back for participation and mild, self-propelled whacks to the head for lamentation...
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December 21, 2008
WASHINGTON - For Wake Forest on Saturday, necessity was the mother of dimension. Motivated by time, space and score, the Demon Deacons discovered that other dimension, Riley Skinner's deep passing game, in time to upend Navy 29-19 in the inaugural EagleB...
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December 20, 2008
WASHINGTON - Yes, Aaron Curry admits it. Upon learning Wake Forest was interested in him, the undersized high school linebacker took some unusual steps to make an impression. "I knew I had to look the part," the Demon Deacons' fifth-year senior said rec...
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December 18, 2008
In the coming weeks of this great and unique season unofficially known as Bowl America, you will hear stories of lavish -- and NCAA-approved -- gifts for college football players and the men who coach them. You'll see images of exotic locales and team tri...
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December 10, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Aaron Curry didn't have his contact lenses in and his eyes were inflamed. But was that really Dick Butkus? Uh, yeah. If there's one guy a linebacker can identify without 20-20 vision, it's the former Chicago Bear, whose ferocity as a play...
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December 9, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM — Aaron Curry didn't have his contact lenses in and his eyes were inflamed. But was that really Dick Butkus? Uh, yeah. If there's one guy a linebacker can identify without 20-20 vision, it's the former Chicago Bear, whose ferocity still de...
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December 8, 2008
The ACC parlayed its competitive balance into 10 bowl bids on Sunday -- a first for any conference -- when the league office found a home for an N.C. State team that began the year injured and ended it invigorated. State will play Rutgers in the Dec. 29 P...
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December 7, 2008
North Carolina and West Virginia will face each other in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte on Dec. 27, the parties announced tonight. The pairing of the Meineke and the Tar Heels was considered unlikely until Clemson qu...
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Perhaps it should be known as the Renaissance Bowl. N.C. State's four-game winning streak to end the regular season will deliver the Wolfpack to the Papajohns.com Bowl against Rutgers, another team that began 1-5 but surged into postseason. The Pack, the...
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If you thought the only screwy things in the bowl picture occurred at the BCS level, please reconsider. Wake Forest and Navy, which met in Winston-Salem in September, will conduct a rematch in the inaugural Eagle Bank Bowl in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 20......
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December 6, 2008
GREENSBORO - The Messiah Monopoly is in no danger of dissolution. Just as they did three years ago, the men's and women's soccer teams of Messiah College won NCAA Division III championships at Bryan Park on Saturday. The men prevail...
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GREENSBORO - By definition, Messiah College already had its savior. So Nick Blossey will settle for Man of the Year. Blossey, who hadn't played in 28 days, came off the bench to stop all three penalty kicks he faced Saturday and ele...
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GREENSBORO -- Alternating the tone between tent revival and pep rally, administrators from UNCG and the Greensboro Coliseum said they'll be partners in college basketball, and they asked the city and the campus to join them Friday.
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December 5, 2008
GREENSBORO - Convening a gathering that was part lunch, part press conference and mainly pep rally, administrators from UNCG and the Greensboro Coliseum announced today a four-year partnership that will place all Spartan home men's basketball games in the...
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GREENSBORO -- Pat Conroy penned his memoirs of basketball at The Citadel in a work he called "My Losing Season." On Thursday night, his cousin Ed Conroy and the Bulldogs started the presses on that sort of tale for the UNCG Spartans, who must find offensi...
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December 4, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- The next time ESPN assigns Indiana to play at Wake Forest in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, the Hoosiers might want to take their game somewhere else. Like, say, Fairbanks. Their 24 turnovers suggested the Demon Deacons were far from perfect......
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