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August 8, 2008
Wake's Skinner learning value of experience
WINSTON-SALEM -- While "Riley Skinner Saves The World" wasn't a huge hit, Wake Forest's quarterback turned his 2007 season from...... Continue
Wife of Deacons assistant basketball coach dies at age 44
The wife of Wake Forest assistant basketball coach Jeff Battle has died of lung cancer. Joyce Battle died Wednesday. She was 44. Continue
August 7, 2008
Wife of Wake Forest assistant coach dies
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — The wife of Wake Forest assistant basketball coach Jeff Battle has died of lung cancer. Joyce Battle died... Continue
August 6, 2008
Duke to build with home-grown talent
Tommy Norwood has been a high school football coach for 28 years -- the last 26 in Guilford County, with the most recent 11 as t... Continue
Coach vows: N.C. A&T's offense won't be boring
GREENSBORO -- To some observers, the football principles of new N.C. A&T coordinator John McKenzie replicate the West Coast...... Continue
Local Olympians let the games begin (sort of)
The Olympic Games have started. They just haven't Opened. Leave it to the International Olympic Committee to confuse us.Two days... Continue
Heels to face host in Maui tourney
North Carolina's holiday visit to Hawaii will begin with a game against the team that pulled perhaps the biggest upset in colleg... Continue
August 5, 2008
UNC to open Maui tourney with Chaminade
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) - North Carolina, which returns national player of the year Tyler Hansbrough and its top five other scorers... Continue
Schedule: Local Olympians prepare for games
Olympians with ties to Greensboro and five local colleges are getting ready for the Olympics in Beijing, where they hope the smo... Continue
August 4, 2008
Deacons use August to develop depth
WINSTON-SALEM -- Not that you're ever set, of course. As soon as a football coach says things are rolling along just fine, a kne... Continue
August 3, 2008
Notes: Improved East Carolina still chasing conference crown
East Carolina is coming off a winning season and a bowl game victory, but coach Skip Holtz said Saturday the Pirates still are s... Continue
August 2, 2008
Wake Forest football factoids
A few preseason factoids on Wake Forest: ** The Deacs are ranked 23rd in the USA Today Preseason 25. That’s the one done by t... Continue
Heels' Davis goes into depth
CHAPEL HILL -- Butch Davis spoke for 17 minutes straight to open his news conference before North Carolina's first football prac... Continue
August 1, 2008
Able Baker begins road back for Pack
RALEIGH -- It seemed like a forbidding omen. With about 30 minutes remaining in N.C. State's first football practice, a golf ca... Continue
Gamecocks' Garcia reinstated to team
South Carolina will have redshirt freshman quarterback Stephen Garcia back for the start of practice. The school says Garcia wil... Continue
Davis is bringing the buzz
CHAPEL HILL - Butch Davis doesn't look like he's leading a program whose last winning record came seven years ago. His North Car... Continue
July 31, 2008
Aggies pull together at first practice
GREENSBORO -- Three months ago, the N.C. A&T Aggies learned there is, in fact, something worse than losing 27 consecutive fo... Continue
Hines signs to play ball in Italy
GREENSBORO -- Kyle Hines is taking the more traditional American route to European basketball. The recent UNCG graduate signed a... Continue
July 30, 2008
For Lowe, Georgia's always on his mind
Sidney Lowe may still be relatively new to the college basketball recruiting scene, but he's already learned this important axio... Continue
Hines signs with Italian team
Former UNCG basketball star Kyle Hines signed a one-year deal with an Italian professional team today, choosing the relative sec... Continue
College notes: Spurrier hints Garcia could return early
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier is hinting that suspended quarterback Stephen Garcia could return earlier than expected. Spu... Continue
July 29, 2008
Daniels: No answers, but Prosser's memories live on
They said farewell to Skip Prosser a year ago, and it still seems unbelievably unjust and implausible. We reporter types are sup... Continue
College notes: Gamecocks receiver cleared of charges
An attorney for South Carolina freshman receiver Dion Lecorn says the simple possession of marijuana charge against his client h... Continue
July 26, 2008
Four Aggies are honored
Four members of the N.C. A&T football team are preseason second-team all-conference picks in the MEAC -- senior running back... Continue
July 25, 2008
Keeping Prosser's memory alive
WINSTON-SALEM -- When Tony Woods came off the court at the AAU tournament in Florida, the five-star recruit had an unsettling vo... Continue