April 28, 2008
When he didn't get invited to the NFL Combine, the seemingly endless and curiously televised evaluation process that some consider a prerequisite for draft legitimacy, William Hayes didn't abandon his dream. The former High Point Andrews High School defen...
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Wake Forest defensive end Jeremy Thompson, who overcame a serious knee injury suffered at the end of his sophomore season, completed an impressive journey today when he became a fourth-round draftee of the Green Bay Packers. The Demon Deacon program got m...
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April 27, 2008
Wake Forest defensive end Jeremy Thompson, who overcame a serious knee injury suffered at the end of his sophomore season, completed an impressive journey today when he became a fourth-round draftee of the Green Bay Packers. The team chose Thompson one sp...
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A presumably long wait ended today for former Dudley High School defensive lineman DeMario Pressley, an anticipated fourth-round NFL draftee who lasted until the New Orleans Saints took him in the fifth round with the 144th overall choice.
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It may have been the most lucrative trip to a flea market in the history of fleas, markets or American commerce. Jerome Simpson didn't buy anything of great value at Saturday's big event in Winston-Salem, but during the ride back home up U.S. 29, the form...
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April 26, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The South Atlantic League's largest crowd of 2008 stayed until the end, motivated by the allure of postgame fireworks Friday night. The product on the field -- at least the Grasshoppers' portion of it -- certainly couldn't explain the patien...
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April 24, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The 2,500 Guilford County students at Wednesday's Grasshoppers game hadn't seen the inside of a pre-K classroom when Colby Miller made his first professional start in 2000. As for Greensboro's pitcher, he has been up, down, around and back......
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GREENSBORO -- The 2,500 Guilford County students at Wednesday's Grasshoppers game hadn't seen the inside of a pre-K classroom when Colby Miller made his first professional start in 2000. As for Greensboro's pitcher, he has been up, down, around and back......
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April 21, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Now this is different. A guy who logged more than 2,300 snaps at Wake Forest and never missed a play because of injury has been so bored lately -- emphasis on lately -- that he has become an NFL draft nerd. "Who needs centers here? N...
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April 20, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- Informed that 4,100 people had attended Saturday's spring scrimmage, Wake Forest football coach Jim Grobe was asked to estimate the turnout for the event in his first year on the job, 2001. "You had to look for them with a search war...
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April 16, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The UNCG baseball team had plenty of opportunities to think Tuesday night, and the Spartans' time was probably best spent on the big picture rather than a task that got out of hand early. North Carolina outfielder Tim Fedroff hit for the cyc...
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April 15, 2008
GREENSBORO -- As recently as last fall, Mike Stanton admits, he debated the relative merits of spring training and spring practice. After all, 6-foot-5 wide receivers from Sherman Oaks, Calif., dream of playing for the Southern California Trojans, and the...
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April 12, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- In most college football programs, attrition among coaches is normal. The staff turns over at about the same rate as the players. At Wake Forest, losing two assistant coaches in one offseason might qualify as commotion. Know what's worse?
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April 11, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM -- At first blush, this seems like an odd place for a Davis Cup event in the U.S. of A. Wouldn't Boston or the Hamptons or La Jolla make more sense? Then again, this is closer to your wacky cousin's tennis event than anybody else's, so why n...
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April 8, 2008
GREENSBORO -- If the NCAA basketball championship game didn't provide stern competition for the Greensboro Grasshoppers, the Hickory Crawdads and the weather effectively compensated Monday night. The Hoppers dropped their home opener 7-2 before 5,925 spec...
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March 31, 2008
GREENSBORO -- If the Rutgers Scarlet Knights weren't thinking about the Connecticut Huskies beforehand, they surely were after a 53-42 victory over George Washington on Sunday. And they didn't seem terribly excited about the concept. At least not right aw...
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March 30, 2008
GREENSBORO -- The ACC is the official host of this NCAA women's basketball regional, but it's the Big East's party. The 16-team super-conference has Connecticut and Rutgers in the Greensboro Regional and one team at each of the other three regional sites...
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March 28, 2008
DAVIDSON -- Confronted with the general numerical mismatches between his 1,678-student school and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Davidson College junior Anjan Mukherjee took solace in the egalitarian, small-scale rules of basketball this week. "...
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March 27, 2008
Heres how the remaining teams made their mark. And the connections? Theyre a stretch, but we found them. Xavier Of basketball interest: The Musketeers have been to the NCAA tournament 18 of the past 26 years. Of general interest: Xavier wont gag. Henry...
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DAVIDSON Walker Badham was listening to a lecture Wednesday on the environmental perils of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park when somebody's BlackBerry beeped, and life at Davidson College paused for yet another giddy moment.
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March 26, 2008
DAVIDSON -- Walker Badham was polititely listening to a guest lecturer discuss the environmental perils of snowmobiles in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday when somebody's BlackBerry beeped and life at Davidson College paused for yet another giddy momen...
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Here’s how the remaining teams made their mark and what they have in common with the competition. Xavier Of basketball interest: The Musketeers have been to the tournament 18 of the past 26 years. Of general interest: Xavier won’t gag. Henry J...
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March 22, 2008
WASHINGTON -- When high seeds narrowly escape early-round elimination in the NCAA basketball tournament, the experience often becomes known as either educationally valuable or prophetic of doom. Last year's Ohio State Buckeyes, for example, should have lo...
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March 20, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Duke Blue Devils figured they would meet their match at some point in this NCAA tournament; they just didn't think it would come in the first round or in such a literal sense. "They shoot more 3-pointers than we do," Duke...
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WASHINGTON -- Some things are too awkward to ignore. Georgia is at the same NCAA regional site as Baylor, and the Bulldogs' starting center is Dave Bliss. Although no relation, he shares the name of the former Baylor coach whose attempted coverup in a mur...
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