December 4, 2008
GREENSBORO - Pardon Donald Moore if he feels he's beating the system. "It'll be the first time I've won anything in my life in Las Vegas," the president of the Greensboro Grasshoppers said. His bounty will come not from the book-turned-movie about card-co...
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GREENSBORO — Seeking to raise its local profile and upgrade the strength of its home schedule, UNCG will move most and perhaps all of its men's basketball games from Fleming Gymnasium to the Greensboro Coliseum starting next season, sources close the pr...
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December 2, 2008
The ACC/Big Ten Challenge is upon us once again. It started with Wisconsin's visit to Virginia Tech on Monday. Or did you forget? If so, you're forgiven. An idea that once sounded cool and refreshing has not aged well. It is neither Angus nor Cabernet nor...
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December 1, 2008
Wake Forest is going to have a postseason home, and N.C. State's chances are promising, the ACC's director of football operations said Sunday. Michael Kelly said the future of the Wolfpack (6-6) depends on the availability of spots outside the ACC contrac...
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November 30, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Cold and wet and perhaps wondering what they barely missed, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons wrapped themselves in the moderately warm blanket of probable bowl participation late Saturday night. Sound vague enough for you? It is. This is ACC...
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November 29, 2008
Yes, they are Spartans. You might also call them Twins. Now in its 50th year, the NCAA men's soccer tournament has invited 1,474 teams to participate. Eleven days ago, UNCG became only the sixth in that group to get in with a losing record. Those odds ar...
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November 26, 2008
BALTIMORE — Three weeks ago, the Loyola College men's soccer team was ranked sixth in the country and the UNCG Spartans were seventh in their own conference. Guess who's still alive in the NCAA tournament.
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November 25, 2008
BALTIMORE -- Corey Maret, who didn't enter the game until 28 minutes remained in regulation, drilled an 18-yard shot past Loyola College's diving goalkeeper 2:11 into sudden-death overtime tonight to lift UNCG to a 2-1 upset over the Greyhounds in the sec...
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GREENSBORO -- As they boarded a bus for Baltimore on Monday morning, the members of the UNCG men's soccer team didn't know the full historical context of their trip. They were just glad to be making it. If the Spartans do to Loyola (Md.) tonight what they...
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November 23, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Kevin Patterson remembered the unfortunate tip, the possible interception it prevented and the game-winning Boston College touchdown it facilitated Saturday night. He didn't gripe, however. In truth, the Wake Forest Deacons had as much r...
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November 18, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The worst should always be this good. Barring a run deep into the NCAA tournament, the 2008 UNCG men's soccer team will finish with a losing record for the first time in the school's 18-year Division I history. And the Spartans won't fret ov...
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November 17, 2008
GREENSBORO - The UNCG men's soccer team, which emerged from the seventh seed to win the Southern Conference tournament over the weekend, will begin NCAA tournament play on Saturday at Duke in a continuing quest to eradicate the frustration of a previously...
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November 16, 2008
If you had to predict the two participants in the ACC championship game, your best guess might be Maryland and Miami. Just make sure that the mortgage, the loved ones, your dignity and any sum over $20 are not at stake. This past Saturday's results didn't...
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RALEIGH -- Just in case this ACC football race wasn't strange enough for you, contemplate this: the bowl-bound N.C. State Wolfpack. It's far from a certainty, but it is feasible after the Pack threw a tire iron at Wake Forest's league-title hopes with Sat...
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November 15, 2008
CHAPEL HILL -- And so there was great angst about the town as North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough sat on the bench the other day, hindered by a stress reaction in his right shin. Some dispatches said he had "missed his first game as a Tar Heel," convenientl...
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WINSTON-SALEM -- A few years ago, the NCAA implemented a series of measures designed to dissuade Division II basketball programs from jumping to Division I. On Friday, N.C. Central looked like it didn't take the hint.
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November 14, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Admit it. You forgot about the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, didn't you? In the past two years, Wake became a football school, suffered a tragic loss and somehow was snubbed from postseason play in 2008. The Deacons should be happy to re-ed...
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November 13, 2008
RALEIGH -- If the weight of expectation really fell on Farnold Degand's shoulders, N.C. State's 6-foot-3, 185-pound point guard probably would crash through the floor. After all, he's Farnold, not Arnold. He's a basketball player, not a bodybuilder. And...
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November 12, 2008
DURHAM -- And what if Duke had made its free throws, you ask? Don't ask. Best leave it unsolved, as a wise man once said. The Statesboro Blues met thrash-metal Tuesday night as the Blue Devils oppressed Georgia Southern by scoring on 13 straight possessio...
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November 11, 2008
GREENSBORO -- We have to get something clear from the start. No team in the Coastal Division of the ACC controls its own destiny. That's because -- by definition -- nobody controls his or her own destiny. Look it up. I promise I'm right about this. Likewi...
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November 10, 2008
DURHAM -- Mike Krzyzewski saw some empty seats during last week's exhibition basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and he expressed his dismay at the absentees. He wants the place packed and the base deep and wide. Perhaps that's the same vision he...
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November 9, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Patience, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons urged the populace, while their offense managed 22 points in three October games. Eventually, the calendar flipped, and so did a switch. Having folded the spread offense and returned to I-formation...
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November 7, 2008
A third consecutive unbeaten regular season of league play translated into individual honors for UNCG forward Katelynn Donovan and Spartans coach Eddie Radwanski, who were named the Southern Conference's player and coach of the year, respectively, on Thur...
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GREENSBORO -- Domination of the Southern Conference has been good to the UNCG women's soccer program. It has produced an automatic NCAA bid in 2006, an at-large selection last year and the knowledge that certainty beats sweating every time.
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November 5, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- It's as if the architect's renderings have been smudged by a miscreant preschooler. Now the Wake Forest Demon Deacons will see if they can construct something sturdy anyway.
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