September 12, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Try easier. Doesn't sound all that inspirational, does it? If ordered onto the field with that one, a football team might struggle to run through cobwebs. But it has its place. Or, to be more precise, it has its placement. In two games, N.C.
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September 11, 2008
A rare opportunity for the North Carolina Tar Heels comes with a caveat. The Heels, precluded from playing home games on Thursday nights by on-campus logistical concerns, take to the field tonight at Rutgers on ESPN's exclusive national stage. They'll nee...
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September 10, 2008
Usually, Howard Stern and Jim Grobe have as much in common as glaciers and Guadalajara. But for a day, they could both claim to be the King of All Media. Wake Forest's football coach -- that's Grobe unless shock jock Stern has somehow changed professions......
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September 9, 2008
Live from Bristol, it’s Jim Grobe. The Wake Forest football coach will have more platforms than an indecisive politician today when he makes the rounds at ESPN’s headquarters in Connecticut. He’s scheduled to appear in an online chat, on radio, on l...
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Concussion's cousin is caution. At least it is in Tom O'Brien's coaching handbook. Some might have started Russell Wilson at quarterback in N.C. State's game with William & Mary on Saturday night. The redshirt freshman, who suffered a scary injury in...
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GREENSBORO -- Tailback Michael Ferguson won't turn down the opportunities, and he hasn't gotten tired yet. Of course, neither of those facts keeps N.C. A&T's football coaches from hoping backup Dione McNair can play Saturday at Norfolk State (1-1). Th...
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September 7, 2008
Anybody who claims to remember the last time Wake Forest won a football game as it did on Saturday is probably either very loyal or very lying.
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WINSTON-SALEM -- Ten minutes after it was over, U2 hit the public-address system with the words, "It's a beautiful day; don't let it get away." Although he presumably enjoyed it, Ryan McManus didn't need to be reminded.
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September 6, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM - The head coach is too modest to call it "The House That Jim Grobe Built." He deflects naming rights to the athletics director and to the players in the Wake Forest football program. And those are good choices.But in the end, perhaps the mo...
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September 5, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The N.C. A&T Aggies' offensive playbook is a thick, bound volume filled with cryptic terms and X's and O's and lines and arrows of outrageous fortune. Its core isn't quite that obtuse.
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September 3, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM - For the first time in the ACC's 56 seasons, Wake Forest is the league's only representative in the Associated Press weekly Top 25 poll.
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GREENSBORO -- The Grasshoppers have at least a share of the South Atlantic League’s Club Merit Award for the fourth straight year, the league’s president announced today. The franchise will split the 2008 citation, which recognizes overall operations......
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September 2, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Lee Fobbs allowed himself to enjoy the first win of his tenure at N.C. A&T late Saturday night. Once the clock struck midnight, he turned into a football coach again. "We're not going to discard winning the game," Fobbs said Monday of t...
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WINSTON-SALEM – For the first time in the ACC’s 56 seasons, Wake Forest is the league’s only representative in the Associated Press weekly Top 25 poll. The Demon Deacons moved from 23rd to 20th after last Thursday’s 41-13 win at Baylor, and they t...
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GREENSBORO -- From the house to the curtain to a hanging slider, Tom Hickman brought it all down Monday afternoon. After some teammates had already left to catch flights home, Hickman ended the Grasshoppers' eventful season when he smacked a leadoff homer...
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September 1, 2008
Tonight, UCLA will host Tennessee on the Labor Day night college football game on ABC. You remember the tradition, don't you? When the ACC expanded to a dozen teams and signed that new deal with Disney Inc., it had secured an annual spot in one of the mos...
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The Hoppers’ total of 161 homers: • Is the highest by any Minor League team below Triple-A this year. • Is the highest by a Greensboro team since pro ball returned to the city in 1979. Mike Stanton’s total of 39 homers: • Is the highest by any p...
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GREENSBORO -- Tom Hickman's leadoff home run in the bottom of the 12th inning ended the Grasshoppers' season with a 7-6 victory over the Lexington Legends today before the third-largest crowd in NewBridge Bank Park history.
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Thanks to the boundless auspices of www.thebaseballcube.com and www.baseballreference.com and the personal library of former News & Record reporter Bill Hass, it's time to unveil a site dedicated to Greensboro's connection with Major League Baseball.
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August 31, 2008
DURHAM - Rather than fidget or curse the falling rain, David Cutcliffe surfed Saturday night. On the Web, that is. The parking lot wasn't really that inundated. "I have my laptop down there and I kept looking at the weather radar," Duke's coach said. "I k...
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DURHAM -- From the parachutist who was supposed to land in Chapel Hill to the lightning that wasn't welcome anywhere, many annoyances came out of the sky and into Wallace Wade Stadium on Saturday night. The terrestrial stuff was more to the home folks' li...
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August 30, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The novelty was nice, but the outcome was outstanding for Northern Guilford on Friday. Mohamed Kellah ran for second-half touchdowns of 75, 5 and 50 yards as the Nighthawks overwhelmed Eastern Randolph 40-14 in their first home varsity footb...
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CHAPEL HILL -- If you're known as Superman, among other things, don't you have to be in the middle of the action? Kennedy Tinsley has arrived, all right. He just had to cross a line and move over a few steps to get there.
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August 29, 2008
GREENSBORO — When you're in charge of an operation that has lost 27 consecutive football games, there are few easy questions. And so it wasn't stunning to N.C. A&T coach Lee Fobbs when a fan, given a microphone in what was termed a news conference......
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August 28, 2008
DURHAM -- No, Mike Krzyzewski said. There was no jet lag. When joy is this great, it tends to blur time zones. Returning to Duke University after coaching the U.S. national men's basketball team to Olympic gold, Krzyzewski emphatically declared Wednesday...
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