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Super Bowl has deep NC connections
The Super Bowl prop bet odds are out, and the biggest favorite to score a touchdown in the game is Kenneth Walker III. The Seahawks running back turned in the second 1,000 yard season of […]
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Look ahead: ’25 coach of the year
Just eight games into Dave Canales’ tenure as coach of the Carolina Panthers, the 43-year-old found himself quickly slipping into a familiar, bleak territory in Charlotte. The former Tampa Bay offensive coordinator had a 1-7 […]
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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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New Tar Heels DC Geoff Collins travels the Temple-to-NC pipeline
Are you a football team in North Carolina looking to fill a coaching staff vacancy? Clearly, your first call should be to a college in Philadelphia better known for basketball and Bill Cosby. Temple University […]
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Could the Panthers have salvaged their season?
Did it have to be this way? The Carolina Panthers made it a clean sweep on Black Monday, firing GM Scott Fitterer. “As we move forward with the new direction for our franchise, I have […]
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Who is Dave Canales? A look at the Panthers’ new coach
The Panthers’ brain trust is now in place. A week after hiring former assistant GM Dan Morgan for the general manager position, one of Morgan’s first acts on the job was to hire a head […]
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Unsettled QB situations abound in NC
Football fans in the state of North Carolina may not put much weight on what Matt Rhule thinks about football, but the former Panthers head coach made waves last week. Now at Nebraska, Rhule complained […]
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Western Carolina grad Fran Brown hired by Syracuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse hired Georgia defensive backs coach Fran Brown as its head coach on Tuesday, giving the Orange a highly regarded recruiter with roots in the Northeast. The 41-year-old Brown, a native of […]
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KREST: Another firing, another coaching search for David Tepper-era Panthers
He may be a top-rated hedge fund manager and the owner of an NFL franchise, but David Tepper is just a regular guy, like you and me. Call him Joe Sixpack. After all, that’s how […]
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Lopsided losses, apathetic fans have Reich on hot seat
The Panthers suffered another lopsided loss in front of a Bank of America Stadium crowd that made it seem more like a road game. It could have been last October’s 37-15 loss to the San […]