October 4, 2008
The University of Virginia couldn't beat Duke, Connecticut or Southern Cal, and it has now been vanquished by an old friend: freedom of expression. After catching considerable heat for the policy, the school founded by Thomas Jefferson announced this wee...
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CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina and Connecticut have re-started their game in Kenan Stadium after a 22-minute delay caused by the failure of a light tower. The Tar Heels lead 17-6. It’s the second delay in the Tar Heels’ three home games in 2008. The o...
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October 3, 2008
CHAPEL HILL -- Football, fate and fractures can all work in mysterious ways. Trimane Goddard is still around to prove it. The fifth-year senior safety for North Carolina is piling up the individual awards in the aftermath of last week's game-winning inter...
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September 30, 2008
DURHAM -- Whom to hug? That was the big dilemma for the Duke students at Wallace Wade Stadium on Saturday. One option was the Blue Devil mascot, who, incidentally, has taken on a leaner mien with a new, plastic-looking head. Then there were the four or fi...
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GREENSBORO -- The "high ankle sprain," which joined the layman's sports medicine lexicon at about the same time as "sports hernia," often is preceded by the word "dreaded" in media accounts. It is an injury to ligaments that connect the tibia and fibula......
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September 28, 2008
RALEIGH -- If you can lose 11 starters to injury in a month, you can allow two safeties in three minutes. Truth be told, this theory has never been tested with great regularity, but we now know it is possible.
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DURHAM -- Thaddeus Lewis couldn't believe his fortune. Eron Riley had lined up to the left and was being ignored like the nominee of the Green Party. Duke's quarterback was so excited that yelling for center Bryan Morgan's snap was almost the hardest par...
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September 27, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- By now, everybody knows that defensive coordinators would rather consume thumbtacks than face Navy's triple-option offense. The Midshipmen pose a unique challenge in any context. For Wake Forest this week, the job is more pronounced. "We......
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GREENSBORO - N.C. A&T football player Chad Wiley died of complications from heat stroke, and he had sickle-cell trait, a condition statistically associated with sudden death in some athletes, according to autopsy results released Friday. University of...
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September 26, 2008
RALEIGH - Listen to Harrison Beck discuss his life in football and you swear Johnny Cash is laying down the soundtrack.He's been everywhere. He's been to Lakeland, Lincoln, N.C. State and Nebraska. Been through West Coast Offense and Bible's Book. Startin...
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September 25, 2008
DURHAM -- Duke University was a charter member of the ACC 55 years ago and has remained in good standing. Having acknowledged all of the literal necessities, new football coach David Cutcliffe has nonetheless declared something that might sound shocking o...
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September 24, 2008
GREENSBORO — The N.C. A&T Aggies play host to Coastal Carolina on Saturday, which is nice for reasons beyond the totally obvious: It means they won't be going to Tidewater Virginia for the third straight week. An odd scheduling quirk sent A&T to...
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September 23, 2008
Were this ballet, the dancers would have been 430-pound guys defaming the Bolshoi. Opera? La Boheme performed by Marilyn Manson. In the end, Wake Forest's 12-3 win at Florida State didn't have to be art or anything resembling it. And that was probably mor...
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In a federal courtroom on Monday, bureaucrats asked a judge to return wolves to the Endangered Species List. Across the country, the coach of the N.C. State Wolfpack was announcing his quarterback wouldn't play this week. It's a remarkably familiar refrai...
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It was a tough day for football injuries at N.C. State and North Carolina. You probably don't have to be clairvoyant to guess the next member of State football's list of walking wounded. Is his play improving weekly? Demonstrating a grasp of his position......
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September 22, 2008
RALEIGH - N.C. State's upset victory over then-No. 15 East Carolina on Saturday proved costly. Quarterback Russell Wilson, coming off the best game of his young career, is out for Saturday night's game against South Florida and will be sidelined indefinit...
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September 21, 2008
CHAPEL HILL -- The North Carolina football program passed out well produced, glossy brochures to prospective recruits entitled "The Future Is Now" on Saturday afternoon. Nice concept. The future, it appears, will have to wait at least a week.
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September 20, 2008
Unlike the SEC and Big 12, which were easily distinguished by demarcations of latitude and longitude, the ACC had to wing it when creating its separate-but-equal divisions, the Atlantic and the Coastal. There was no convenient way to split teams, which ma...
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WINSTON-SALEM -- Whether known as Demir or as Anquan's little brother, D.J. Boldin understands if you forgot about him. He missed the greatest season in Wake Forest football history two years ago and spent 2007 as an understudy to the author of 98 recepti...
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September 19, 2008
RALEIGH — If not with a bang — that part is to be determined — Andre Brown is going out with a burst. N.C. State's tailback, confronting his final college season with head up and shoulders low, seems intent on delivering as many hits as he absorbs.
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Toney Baker's 2007 season lasted one game, and his 2008 won't happen at all. The N.C. State tailback, whose 10,241-yard output at Ragsdale High School remains the third-highest career rushing total in prep football history, was officially ruled out for th...
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September 18, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Carlton Fears: That's a name, not a complete sentence. Rest assured that N.C. A&T's new starting quarterback isn't afraid of very much. Thrust into action when Herbert Miller suffered a concussion at Norfolk State last week, Fears did ma...
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September 17, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- You know things have changed in ACC football when the Florida State Seminoles are vowing to beat Wake Forest. "I've got to say we're not going to lose this game," quarterback Christian Ponder said Monday. Such things once went unsaid. The...
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September 14, 2008
CLEMSON, S.C. -- On Saturday morning, the marquee at the Taco Bell on Tiger Boulevard encouraged Clemson to beat The Citadel. The sign, while officially one week out of date, didn't require much amendment. N.C. State was not particularly memorable.
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September 13, 2008
Last week's home loss to Northwestern wasn't as much fun as the opening win over James Madison, but Duke coach David Cutcliffe said the 24-20 defeat to the Wildcats represented progress. "We're not panicking about playing like we did before," said the fir...
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