October 13, 2009
GREENVILLE (AP) — Don't blame East Carolina coach Skip Holtz for feeling optimistic about the days ahead. After all, things just have to get better after a rough week.His Pirates have limped into the midway point of the season with injuries, flu bug...
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GREENSBORO COLLEGE 2, GUILFORD 0: Brandon Perkins and Christian Johannesson scored in the first 22 minutes and Greensboro College's defense made the goals stand in a nonconference men's soccer match at Guilford College on Monday night. The Pride (3-6-2) j...
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October 12, 2009
GREENSBORO (AP) — Duke's Thaddeus Lewis is the ACC offensive back of the week.Lewis was one of six players named Monday as the ACC's weekly award winners. He was joined by Georgia Tech lineman Cord Howard, Wake Forest defensive tackle John Russell......
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Alabama's steady rise in the rankings has left the Crimson Tide with a clear view of No. 1 Florida.Alabama jumped Texas into second-place behind top-ranked Florida in the AP Top 25 on Sunday, giving the Southeastern Conference the Nos. 1 and 2 teams in th...
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Paul Johnson isn't spending much time savoring Georgia Tech's first win at Florida State in seven tries. There's a bigger game for Johnson's No. 19 Yellow Jackets ahead. The Yellow Jackets can boost their ACC championship hopes this week when they face No...
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October 11, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM -- Another week, another record for Riley Skinner. Wake Forest's senior quarterback completed 24 of 33 passes for 360 yards and four touchdowns, leading the Demon Deacons to a 42-32 victory over Maryland before a homecoming crowd of 32,780 S...
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RALEIGH (AP) — As Thad Lewis walked to the sideline with victory in hand, Duke coach David Cutcliffe greeted his quarterback with a handshake and a pat on the shoulder pads. "It was the best game that I've had a quarterback play," he said...
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GREENSBORO -- Michael Caparaso became Greensboro College's all-time leader in passing yardage Saturday, but the Pride fell to N.C. Wesleyan, 35-13, in a USA South football game at Jamieson Stadium. Bryan Haywood and Laqwan Brodie scored two touchdowns eac...
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BALTIMORE — Morgan State tried very hard to give Saturday's game to N.C. A&T, but the Aggies couldn't take it. The Bears made a number of mistakes that led to several A&T scoring chances. But the Aggies couldn't convert on most of them, maki...
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ELON -- The numbers at halftime were staggering: Score: Elon 26, The Citadel 0. First downs: Elon 16, The Citadel 0. Total yards: Elon 287, The Citadel 26. And even those numbers didn't tell the story of just how dominating the Phoenix was during a 43-7 t...
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RALEIGH — Duke went down an old familiar road Saturday after a long time wandering. For the first time in 25 years, the Blue Devils went to N.C. State and won a football game. As the clouds gathered in the closing minutes over a Wolfpack program sud...
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CHAPEL HILL (AP) — North Carolina's offense finally started scoring. So did the defense. Quan Sturdivant returned a fumble 49 yards for a touchdown, Bruce Carter brought back an interception 41 yards for another score and the Tar Heels forced s...
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October 10, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM -- Wake Forest cornerback Kenny Okoro plays defense as if it's offense. Any why not? The News & Record's high school player of the year in 2007, Okoro was a three-way star at Dudley as a defensive back, wide receiver and kick returner. H...
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North Carolina's midseason breather just got a whole lot more significant. Not long ago, the Tar Heels figured their glorified exhibition today (3:30 p.m.) against Georgia Southern would give them an opportunity to pad some stats and keep themselves flyin...
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October 9, 2009
Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe calls it "embarrassing." Tight end Andrew Parker declared that the game still "haunts us."The Demon Deacons were unbeaten in the Atlantic Coast Conference midway through last season, coming off a big win a w...
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New turf is down on the Carter-Finley Stadium field following Saturday night's U2 concert as N.C. State (3-2, 0-1 ACC) prepares for Saturday's ACC football game against Duke (2-3, 0-1). "I jokingly say all the time we'll play in the parking lot,"...
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October 8, 2009
GREENSBORO — N.C. A&T’s homecoming is still three weeks away.But for A&T’s football players, this week is homecoming. And next week is homecoming. Then, finally, homecoming is homecoming.The unspoken tradition of homecoming is to...
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The Champs Sports Bowl has signed a new agreement with the ACC that extends the relationship with the conference through 2013 and improves the bowl’s selection of teams from the conference.The deal means the ACC’s second pick after the BCS sel...
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High Point University picked up its second verbal commitment in men’s basketball this week. It's Georges MaNgoue, a 6-foot-8, 230-pound center from Forsyth Country Day in Wisnton-Salem.MaNgoue drew recruiting interest from Elon, N.C. Central, UNC-As...
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October 7, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — Three weeks in a row, Wake Forest senior quarterback Riley Skinner has set a new personal best for passing yards in a single game. You'd think that would be a good thing. And you'd be wrong. Because while Skinner has flourished in th...
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October 6, 2009
CHAPEL HILL (AP) — Two straight ACC losses, two anemic performances on offense. To get things jump-started, North Carolina's offense is going back to basics. Coach Butch Davis hopes that, by simplifying the playbook, the Tar Heels' inexperience...
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RALEIGH (AP) — N.C. State is shaking up its defense after being unable to get needed stops in the Wolfpack's weekend loss at Wake Forest.Coach Tom O'Brien said Monday that redshirt freshman Terrell Manning will likely start at linebacker against Duk...
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GREENVILLE (AP) — East Carolina has gone from struggling to alone atop Conference USA's East Division.The Pirates (3-2 overall, 2-0 in C-USA) have won two straight games after a 1-2 start and find themselves as the only unbeaten team in the division...
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October 5, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Rejuvenated Auburn jumped into the AP Top 25 for the first time this season, landing at No. 17 after improving to 5-0 under new coach Gene Chizik.One week after a bunch of upsets gave The Associated Press poll a serious shake-up, a r...
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WINSTON-SALEM (MCT) — Bill Hayes says that no matter what happens with his pursuit of the position of athletics director at Winston-Salem State, he's coming home to Winston-Salem.Hayes, who resigned on Friday as athletics director at Florida A&M...
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