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Panthers may go defense in draft
The NFL Draft starts this Thursday night in Green Bay, and there’s a good chance the Carolina Panthers will break with recent tradition. Not since the team took Jaycee Horn in the first round in […]
Carolina
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Hurricanes, Devils reignite rivalry in Round 1
RALEIGH — The NHL regular season didn’t end until Thursday, but the Hurricanes have known for some time who they would be facing in the first round of the playoffs. For the second time in […]
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‘Dust settles’ for Hurricanes’ stretch run
RALEIGH — All the Carolina Hurricanes can do is move on. The franchise went through one of its most bizarre sagas after making the shocking trade for star winger Mikko Rantanen, who they acquired from […]
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Panthers still encouraged by Ls
Typically, in an election year like this one, voters are asked to consider the question, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” That’s going to be a tough bar to clear for […]
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KREST: ACC in danger of being left out of latest realignment
In what now seems like a million years ago, the ACC unveiled its new football scheduling model early last week. The league is getting rid of the Atlantic and Coastal divisions and assigning each team […]
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WASIOLEK: Big-time college sports: go pro or go home
Controversy between amateurism and professionalism has surrounded the world of college sports since the very first intercollegiate rowing contest between Harvard and Yale in 1852. Murray Sperber wrote, “Even before the starting gun went off […]
NFL
Redskins hire Ron Rivera as coach
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Redskins hired Ron Rivera as their coach on Wednesday in owner Dan Snyder’s latest step to try to turn around the wayward franchise. Washington announced the move two days after Snyder […]
Opinion
HILL: Why Is The Duke-Carolina Rivalry So Intense?
Like the Hatfield-McCoy feud, hardly anyone knows why the Duke-Carolina rivalry got so hot and contentious in the first place. Over 50% of the people who live in North Carolina were not born here. To […]
Opinion
HILL: Oligarchicide—The Far Left Attack On Wealth
After the Peloponnesian War, the Spartans dismantled the Athenian democracy and replaced it with a group of wealthy oligarchs called the Thirty Tyrants. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her colleagues in the current Socialist Democratic Party […]
Sports
Little earning bigger role with Tar Heels
CHAPEL HILL — After 20 games of extreme ups and downs, the North Carolina basketball team may finally have found its identity. It’s a discovery that has come about only because its most talented young […]