North State Journal’s 100 in 100 series will showcase the best athlete from each of North Carolina’s 100 counties. From Alamance to Yancey, each county will feature one athlete who stands above the rest. Some […]
RALEIGH — Retired NFL star Julius Peppers, retired NBA player Muggsy Bogues and current North Carolina football coach Mack Brown headline this spring’s class of inductees to the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. The […]
RALEIGH — As Eddie Bridges recalls, there were really only two things for young men like himself growing up in Burke County to do back in the days following the end of World War II. […]
RALEIGH — The goal of every official working games at this week’s NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors — and every official in every sport, for that matter — is to […]
RALEIGH — Rod Broadway has one regret about walking away from his job as NC A&T’s football coach after leading the Aggies to the Historically Black Colleges and Universities national championship in 2017. But it […]
RALEIGH — Boo Corrigan became NC State’s new athletic director on May 1. It was an occasion that might have gone completely unnoticed had it not been for the heartfelt farewell message his predecessor Debbie […]
Recently retired NASCAR superstar Dale Earnhardt Jr., champion golfer Davis Love III and former NC A&T and NC Central football coach Rod Broadway lead a class of 12 new members named to the North Carolina […]
RALEIGH — For some, coaching is a profession. For Bill Hayes, it was a calling. That’s why he decided to jump off the ladder of mainstream opportunity just as he began climbing it in 1976 […]
RALEIGH — It took a free T-shirt to help Mindy Ballou Fitzpatrick become a Hall of Famer. Actually, her accomplishments on the basketball court at West Carteret High School and the University of South Carolina […]
RALEIGH — Joe West has seen and heard just about everything there is the see and hear during his 40 years as a Major League Baseball umpire. And yet, last weekend at the Raleigh Convention […]
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