August 13, 2008
This Mike Stanton story keeps getting better. The Grasshoppers' 18-year-old slugger delivered his 33rd home run of the season tonight and is now the youngest professional player in more than 40 years to hit that many, according to a database compiled by a...
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August 12, 2008
GREENSBORO -- There are some subtleties to Wheeler Brown, a friendly sort with the frame of a bear. But Monday, the former Aggie football player spoke like an offensive lineman, not a diplomat. "My No. 1 goal would be for us to get our swagger back," said...
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August 11, 2008
If the Los Angeles Dodgers win the welfare state known as the National League West, their fans will toast Manny Ramirez. While they're at it, they shouldn't forget Mike Stanton. At least have their people call his people with a brief expression of gratitu...
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August 9, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Just in case he didn't get enough grief because of the position he plays on the Wake Forest football team, Sam Swank recently signed up for more. The Demon Deacons senior is not just a kicker. He's a married kicker, which gives his teamma...
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August 8, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- While "Riley Skinner Saves The World" wasn't a huge hit, Wake Forest's quarterback turned his 2007 season from action thriller to documentary. Think Sundance, not Sony Pictures Entertainment. The Demon Deacons, consequently, did what they...
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August 6, 2008
GREENSBORO -- To some observers, the football principles of new N.C. A&T coordinator John McKenzie replicate the West Coast offense. Others might call it a spread. Still others invoke the name of Dan Henning. Confused? Well, good. That's sort of the p...
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The Olympic Games have started. They just haven't Opened. Leave it to the International Olympic Committee to confuse us.Two days before the Opening Ceremonies, the action began this morning when the U.S. women's soccer team, featuring five former North Ca...
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August 5, 2008
Admit it. When you heard Steve Bartman had turned down an offer to sign his name once for $25,000 at a baseball card and memorabilia show in suburban Chicago, you lost interest in the event. But now comes word via the New York Daily News that the feds wer...
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Olympians with ties to Greensboro and five local colleges are getting ready for the Olympics in Beijing, where they hope the smog clears and the competition flows normally. We're compiling a schedule of events involving the locals, but there are a few cav...
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August 4, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Not that you're ever set, of course. As soon as a football coach says things are rolling along just fine, a knee will get twisted or an ankle rolled. But as the Wake Forest Demon Deacons begin preseason practice, they like their core and...
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August 2, 2008
A few preseason factoids on Wake Forest:
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July 31, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Three months ago, the N.C. A&T Aggies learned there is, in fact, something worse than losing 27 consecutive football games. What could be more disturbing than losing a teammate? In this case, the question is not rhetorical. As intolerabl...
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Today's non-waiver trade deadline came and went without a Manny Ramirez deal that might have included Grasshoppers outfielder Mike Stanton. ESPN has reported that the Boston Red Sox and Florida Marlins did not agree to a Ramirez swap by the 4 p.m. cutoff...
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GREENSBORO -- Kyle Hines is taking the more traditional American route to European basketball. The recent UNCG graduate signed a one-year, tax-free, $180,000 deal Wednesday with an Italian professional team, opting for the relative security of that opport...
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July 30, 2008
Former UNCG basketball star Kyle Hines signed a one-year deal with an Italian professional team today, choosing the relative security of a foreign opportunity over the uncertainty of the NBA. Prima Veroli, a second-division team based about 65 miles east...
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July 29, 2008
They said farewell to Skip Prosser a year ago, and it still seems unbelievably unjust and implausible. We reporter types are supposed to pose and answer questions. Who? What? Where? When? How? Why? That last one's still got me. The confusion goes beyond t...
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July 23, 2008
GREENSBORO, Ga. -- If the college football timing-rules changes of 2006 represented a revolution, then this year's modifications are a peaceful assembly: enough to draw your attention without provoking ire or fear. The ACC's supervisor of officials said T...
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July 22, 2008
GREENSBORO, Ga. -- When the new boss called the team the "fattest" he had ever seen, the players didn't revolt. They were Duke Blue Devils, and he was David Cutcliffe, and indignation made about as much sense as a 70-yard field-goal attempt.
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The status quo known as the Bowl Championship Series is in place for at least the next six years, but administrators and executives at ACC schools briefly pondered advocating an amendment of the system before considerable opposition made the "Plus-One" co...
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July 21, 2008
Wake Forest and North Carolina have been predicted to finish second in their respective divisions of ACC football, a somewhat surprising vote of confidence from the media representatives gathered at the league's preseason football meetings on Monday.
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GREENSBORO, Ga. -- A cornerback and a wide receiver. A Demon Deacon and a Tar Heel. You've heard of those. Here's a third pairing of people in apparent conflict: Alphonso Smith, the cocky trash-talker, and Alphonso Smith, the human with the understandable...
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July 18, 2008
GREENSBORO -- It's another lovely Thursday evening at NewBridge Bank Park and the weekend looks good, too. What could possibly screw it up? In the shed where he keeps his equipment and watches the radar like a leadoff man studies a 3-2 slider, Jake Hollow...
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July 16, 2008
Miserable air, massive crowds and the public presumption that you must win? Sounds like quite a trifecta. Then again, it's the Olympics, which is why Chris Paul will embrace it and not simply tolerate it. The former Wake Forest Demon Deacon spoke to the p...
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July 15, 2008
CHAPEL HILL — For several years now, North Carolina basketball fans have probably wondered why two guys dressed as the Blues Brothers perform during a time out at every home game. Now it makes sense. This summer will be remembered as the one when the Ta...
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So Billy Packer has been whacked and you can't contain your enthusiasm. If you're a college basketball fan, you probably feel an obligation to dance on Packer's professional grave. Just make sure you control yourself. Limit your delirium to the specifics.
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