November 4, 2008
The hiring of David Cutcliffe, the final major act of the Joe Alleva administration at Duke, has been the best development for Blue Devils football in at least 14 years. It registered on the national soundboard last December and has echoed since. The seco...
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GREENSBORO -- A winning season and conference championship are out of reach, and the coach has been fired. Yet, as they enter their final two football games of 2008, the N.C. A&T Aggies swear the search for significance isn't as tough as finding Sasqu...
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November 2, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- If you want to call Wake Forest the most blessed team in the ACC, the Demon Deacons probably won't get too defensive. You can call them a lot of things as long as you still call them relevant.
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So Alphonso Smith didn't play offense in Saturday's 33-30 win over Duke. He did about everything else. The cornerback-special teams performer intercepted two passes, blocked one punt and returned two others. It's unconventional for the same player to per...
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November 1, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- So you take two college football teams from the same state, put them together and what do you have? In the case of Wake Forest and Duke, you have two college football teams from the same state. If, historically speaking, you consider thi...
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October 31, 2008
The NCAA's board of directors Thursday agreed to begin formal discussion of an ACC proposal that would require college basketball's underclassmen to declare their NBA draft status by mid-April of each year. The panel's decision does not endorse the propo...
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October 30, 2008
The NCAA's board of directors on Thursday agreed to start formal discussion of an ACC proposal that would require underclassmen to decide their NBA draft status by mid-April of each year. The panel's decision does not endorse the proposal; it merely fast...
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They have started practicing in advance of another season of ACC basketball. Every team in the league returns at least three starters, but that doesn't guarantee competitive balance throughout. North Carolina again looks dominant. The rest of the field, o...
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GREENSBORO -- So he lives at the beach and has ended his basketball coaching career. To most of us, that sounds like retirement. Dave Odom apparently views it as a new challenge. Guilford College announced Wednesday that Odom, one of its most prominent al...
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October 29, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- When a football team calls a members-only meeting, predictions of doom and presumptions of turmoil fill message boards, and Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe admits he was concerned when word of Monday's get-together surfaced. Sort of. "I was d...
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October 28, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM - Three weeks later after sustaining a quadriceps injury in practice, Wake Forest kicker Sam Swank is still uncertain of a return date. The senior, whose personal quest for the ACC's career scoring record has taken a hit, didn't practice Mon...
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October 27, 2008
ATLANTA -- Seeking to truncate NBA teams' 60-day courtship of prospective early draft entrants, the ACC is advocating NCAA legislation that would require college underclassmen to declare their intentions irrevocably by mid-April -- a vast change from the...
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ATLANTA -- The consumer has spoken, and the ACC tournament won't be setting any attendance records when it returns to the Georgia Dome this season. That's not to say the event will be a dud. It just won't exceed the limits of reasonable in-house viewing.
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October 26, 2008
ATLANTA - Voting for president isn't this easy. There were no October Surprises when assembled media predicted the order of finish in ACC basketball on Sunday and unanimously selected North Carolina for the second straight year. The Tar Heels, returning n...
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October 12, 2008
CHAPEL HILL -- Passing statistics -- and sometimes rushing statistics -- win high-stepping, stiff-arming trophies. Turnover margin, a number attributed to an entire team and sorely lacking in Q Rating, is officially the favorite number around here these d...
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October 11, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Much like a giant communications company, N.C. A&T is bundling an Internet package. The university's Webcasting of its home football games intends to offer a service to its constituency and real-life work experience to its students. And...
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WINSTON-SALEM -- After beating Clemson 12-7 on Thursday, Wake Forest is the first team to win two ACC games in the same season while scoring 12 or fewer points since the Tigers defeated the Deacons 10-9 and Duke 3-0 in 1971. That wasn't just another era...
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October 10, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Wake Forest's offense turned heads. Its defense practically took them off. Constant harassment of Clemson quarterback Cullen Harper drove the Tigers out of their comfort zone, and the Tigers' running game couldn't bring them back in. Wak...
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October 9, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Two weeks ago, back when we had it all figured out, tonight's Clemson-Wake Forest football game was the nominal Atlantic Division title contest. Then the Tigers lost to Maryland, which turned around and got blanked at Virginia. The Demon...
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October 8, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Jim Grobe would rather listen to 16 consecutive hours of Motley Crue than just chuck it and, well, chuck it incessantly. "I'm a bit of a knothead about that stuff," the Wake Forest football coach said Tuesday. "I hate to give up and say......
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October 7, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Sure, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons were officially idle this past Saturday, but there's no such thing as an off week when your most recent game was barely worthy of placement in the bargain bin next to a VHS copy of "Waterworld." So whe...
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GREENSBORO -- Simplify. Chill. Did somebody say something about Homecoming? That's the seemingly contradictory mandate currently facing the N.C. A&T Aggies, who say they need to dial down the emotional meter in the name of better first-half focus afte...
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October 6, 2008
The North Carolina Tar Heels have earned their first Associated Press poll ranking since Oct. 28, 2001 as a result of Saturday's 38-12 win over previously unbeaten and 24th-rated Connecticut. Carolina cracked the survey, released Sunday, in the 22nd spot...
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October 5, 2008
CHAPEL HILL -- It's not just that Bruce Carter swatted three Connecticut punts in North Carolina's 38-12 win over the previously undefeated and 24th-ranked Huskies on Saturday night. It's that he wasn't even trying. At least not officially. "I was suppose...
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The North Carolina Tar Heels have earned their first Associated Press poll ranking since Oct. 28, 2001 as a result of Saturday's 38-12 win over previously unbeaten and 24th-rated Connecticut. Carolina cracked the survey, released this afternoon, in the 22...
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