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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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Local athletes compete for Olympic bids in track and field
North Carolina had its footprints all over the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon last week. From June 21 to Sunday, numerous athletes from the state of North […]
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N.C. sends 2 to super regionals
While most people would probably think of basketball when the state comes up in conversation, North Carolina is no slouch in college baseball either. The Old North State had seven schools qualify for the NCAA […]
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Duke baseball wins ACC Tournament
CHARLOTTE — At the ACC Baseball Tournament hosted in Charlotte this past weekend, it was a North Carolina-based team that came away from Truist Field holding a championship trophy. Out of four local schools in […]
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Crunch time for NC baseball teams
We are now less than three weeks away from the NCAA selection show. While college basketball may have a trademark on the term “Madness,” this season has seen things go topsy turvy for locals teams […]
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Landing spots for local NFL prospects in draft’s later rounds
For most of the NFL prospects coming out of North Carolina’s college programs, the chance to play at the next level just had to wait a day or two. Outside of UNC’s Drake Maye and […]
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N.C. products head to Final Four
With NC State sending both a men’s and women’s team to the Final Four for the first time in school history, there will be plenty of North Carolina basketball fans cheering for some former local […]
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ECU, Charlotte, NCCU all fall
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kobe Knox had 17 points and top-seeded South Florida beat No. 8 seed East Carolina 81-59 on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the American Athletic Conference Tournament. Knox had […]
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Sports betting’s economic impact
On Monday, sports betting became legal in North Carolina with NC House Bill 347 going into effect. It comes just in time for the start of the men’s ACC basketball tournament and the NCAA tournaments. […]