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NFL rosters have 114 NC players
With the NFL season kicking off this week, football fans across the state can agree on one thing. We hate Cleveland. The Browns are the only NFL team without a North Carolina product on their […]
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Wake Forest, NC State lead state’s contingent at Sunday’s Super Bowl
Jessie Bates III was nearly a hero. In mid-December, the Bengals battled back from a fourth-quarter deficit against San Francisco and tied the score. With 21 seconds left in regulation, he stepped in front of […]
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Kyle Dugger leads way at NFL Draft; NC’s Big Four players wait until Day 3
The calendar might say that it’s April. But for Kyle Dugger, Saturday sure felt a lot like late December. “I’d say probably the closest thing would definitely be Christmas, my first Christmas,” the safety from […]
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Replacing the one-of-a-kind Luke Kuechly
Luke Kuechly’s surprise retirement last week left fans and media paying tribute to one of the greatest Carolina Panthers defensive players in team history. As Kuechly settles into retirement and decides what’s next — ESPN […]
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LeMay kicks off all-star games with MVP
It’s easy to be overlooked when you’re a college football running back playing for an upstart program, surrounded in close proximity by higher-profile ballcarriers such as Clemson’s Travis Etienne, Appalachian State’s Darrynton Evans and North […]
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NC players top football all-conference teams
Fifteen players from North Carolina made all-conference teams for their college this season. In the ACC, a total of six players made the first team. Sage Surratt was the only local ACC player chosen on […]
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App State beats UNC to stake its claim as state’s top program
CHAPEL HILL — All week long, Eliah Drinkwitz went out of his way to downplay the significance of Appalachian State’s matchup against North Carolina. Saturday, after leading his team to a 34-31 victory at Kenan […]
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Appalachian State ready to compete with the big boys
Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma. Since the start of the 2015 season, those four teams — perennial college football playoff contenders — are the only teams in FBS with a better winning percentage than Appalachian […]