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Duke FB hopes to keep rolling
DURHAM – Way back in 1989, Steve Spurrier coached Duke to an 8-4 record, including a trip to the All-American Bowl in Birmingham. It was the second straight winning season in Durham for the Ole’ […]
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Moving fast: Mason Miller emerges
The weekend before the All-Star Break, the Oakland A’s played the Philadelphia Phillies. Oakland has been one of the worst teams in MLB in recent years. If the baseball world has paid any attention to […]
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Skenes gets rookie All-Star start
ARLINGTON, TEXAS—The MLB All-Star game changed its rules a few years ago, to make it easier for two-way players to showcase all of their skills. The rule was made to accommodate Shohei Ohtani, who pitched […]
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NC produces over 50 MLB picks
Major League Baseball reached out to its next generation of players with the 20-round MLB Draft, last week in Texas. As we reported last week, Wake Forest took center stage in the first round, with […]
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Wake makes MLB Draft history
The Cowtown Coliseum is normally home to rodeo events as the premiere attraction of the Fort Worth Stockyards, but, as host of the 2024 MLB Draft, it became Winston-Salem West. Wake Forest was the consensus […]
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Rhett Lowder heads to Futures Game
The MLB All-Star Break will get started with the All-Star Futures Game on Saturday, in Arlington, Texas. The annual contest gives fans a look at tomorrow’s stars, bringing together the top minor league prospects in […]
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ABS Challenge system expands
In late May, the Durham Bulls trailed Memphis, 5-4, in the bottom of the ninth inning. With two outs, Junior Caminero took a two-strike pitch that might have been a bit outside. No dice. The […]
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Negro League stats don’t all count
Willie Mays died last week, just before MLB was about to honor him at the special game saluting the Negro Leagues at Birmingham’s Rickwood Field. The day after Juneteenth, baseball brought together a large group […]
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Rory McIlroy’s brutal US Open loss
Against all odds, Rory McIlroy managed to tame Pinehurst. It wasn’t enough. All week long, golfers had talked about the native grass areas on either side of the fairways and the domed greens that sent […]
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DeChambeau comes up big at US Open
Entering the week, Bryson DeChambeau was hoping to avoid drama at a Pinehurst No. 2 course that was capable of causing plenty of it. “If I get my irons in a place where I’m hitting […]