July 8, 2008
Wes Mason, owner of the proposed Winston-Salem expansion franchise in the newfangled ABA, seems to get it. His general manager says creating competitive opportunity is a more feasible and valuable goal than massive profit margin in minor-league basketball...
Read More
July 1, 2008
Behold the globalization of the NBA. If you haven't heard of Serge Ibaka yet, just you wait. In 2011, you might be able to start determining the value of the 24th pick in the 2008 NBA draft. There's no denying the geographical diversity the league has emb...
Read More
June 25, 2008
Wake Forest's basketball team will have to play the first semester — typically eight to 10 games — without occasional starter Jamie Skeen, suspended Tuesday by coach Dino Gaudio for an unspecified violation of the university's academic policies. Skeen...
Read More
June 24, 2008
Sometimes, things are precisely what they appear to be. (See United States v. Michael Vick.) Sometimes, they're not. (See Overzealous, Attention-Craving Activists v. Duke Lacrosse.) So in the spirit of our society's newfound interest in fairness, let's he...
Read More
June 23, 2008
Major league baseball's All-Star game has been nearly overshadowed by the Home Run Derby, an exhibition of long-ball lust that might feel like a guilty pleasure in the aftermath of the Mitchell Report. Fans assume that any player would jump at the chance...
Read More
June 18, 2008
Leave it to baseball to create this sort of unspeakable contradiction. The North beat the South on Tuesday night, and 8,367 people in Greensboro were happy about it. The annual conflict of the South Atlantic League ended without incident when the Northern...
Read More
June 13, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The Greensboro Grasshoppers haven't become a successful minor league organization by resting on a park bench, but perhaps that's about to change. The franchise will unveil the newest element at NewBridge Bank Park today -- a bench featuring...
Read More
June 12, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The South Atlantic League's long-ball leader isn't in next week's Home Run Derby. Heck, he's not even in the All-Star game, scheduled for his home park. Then again, the Democrats and Republicans won't officially nominate anybody for presiden...
Read More
June 7, 2008
Regardless of whether he stays in the NBA draft or returns for his junior season with the North Carolina basketball team, Ty Lawson will have two court dates in July, the results of his fourth and fifth traffic incidents in three states during the past 13...
Read More
June 2, 2008
Three members of the Grasshoppers’ remarkable bullpen have been named to the South Atlantic League All-Star game, which will be played at NewBridge Bank Park on June 17. Andrew Battisto, Corey Madden and Garrett Parcell, part of a group that entere...
Read More
May 29, 2008
GREENSBORO — The N.C. A&T community began Wednesday with prayers for football player Chad Wiley, but then learned he was already gone. "Nothing is fail-safe in life," interim Athletics Director Wheeler Brown said at a Wednesday afterno...
Read More
GREENSBORO — The N.C. A&T community began Wednesday with prayers for football player Chad Wiley, but then learned he was already gone. "Nothing is fail-safe in life," interim Athletics Director Wheeler Brown said at a Wednesday afterno...
Read More
May 28, 2008
GREENSBORO - N.C. A&T officials said today they'll probably be short on answers for the cause of a football player's death until a complete autopsy is conducted. Chad Edward Wiley, 22, who would have been a fifth-year senior on the Aggies team this fa...
Read More
GREENSBORO - N.C. A&T officials said today they'll probably be short on answers for the cause of a football player's death until a complete autopsy is conducted. Chad Edward Wiley, 22, who would have been a fifth-year senior on the Aggies team this fa...
Read More
Wake Forest University's decision to rescind standardized-test score requirements in its general admissions process will not apply to scholarship athletes, school officials said Tuesday. "All incoming freshman student-athletes will still be required...
Read More
May 21, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The nation might be facing the likelihood of a recession now, but life was good at ACC headquarters during the 2006-07 tax year. The league disbursed $137.5 million to its 12 member schools in the tax year ending June 30, 2007, according to...
Read More
May 15, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Who knows for sure? Maybe there's a French peasant who picks up the sticks four times a year and shoots a 59 without fail. Maybe he -- and not Wake Forest senior Webb Simpson -- is the best amateur golfer in the world.
Read More
GREENSBORO -- If you think it's tough to get out of a bases-loaded jam while 4,600 second-graders are screaming "Sponge Bob Square Pants," Corey Madden suggests you try playing baseball in a snow squall. That was among the challenges of the game...
Read More
May 12, 2008
A year from now, the ACC's spring business meetings will be heavy on the business. For now, there's still a little chance for spring. As the league's coaches, athletics directors and faculty representatives congregate at Amelia Island, Fla., they're in an...
Read More
May 10, 2008
GREENSBORO — The Lake County Captains apparently aren’t ready for a demotion just yet. The visitors from suburban Cleveland expanded their lead in the South Atlantic League’s Northern Division to three games Friday with an 8-1 victory ov...
Read More
May 8, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The N.C. A&T baseball team finished exams and a season sweep of UNCG on Wednesday. And the Aggies got to enjoy it all for about 12 hours.
Read More
GREENSBORO - The N.C. A&T baseball team finished exams and a season sweep of UNCG on Wednesday. And the Aggies got to enjoy it all for about 12 hours.
Read More
May 7, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The UNCG athletics department has taken steps to remedy academic shortcomings outlined in an NCAA report released Tuesday and anticipates that three Spartans teams that were sanctioned with scholarship reductions will be back in good standin...
Read More
May 3, 2008
Suddenly, "undersized" is a description that no longer applies to Duke. The vertically challenged Blue Devils got a huge boost on Thursday when Miles Plumlee, a 6-foot-10 senior forward from Christ School in Arden, committed to Duke. "Miles Plumlee is an...
Read More
April 29, 2008
The phone wasn't answered, but the prayer apparently was. When the Tennessee Titans dialed former Andrews defensive lineman William Hayes on Sunday morning, their first attempt at communication failed. Hayes had an excuse. "I had the phone on 'silent...
Read More
