In a final flurry of very ruffled feathers, the Cary-based Carolina RailHawks flap into a doubleheader against the Charleston Battery and Portland Timbers in USL-1’s final regular season weekend. The stakes are high, as anything less than six points will snare no better than an 8th-place finish for the sophomore ‘Hawks. In addition to winning […]
Chris Gaffney
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Soccer Shangri-La
From the beginning, this was an entertaining spectacle. And that was before you even saw a soccer ball. Just getting into the sold-out SAS Soccer Stadium in Cary was enough to cause confusion as the will-call lines were hopelessly long if your name happened to start after the letter H. By my count, around 700-1,000 […]
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Poised to fly
As the team bus pulls into RE/MAX Greater Atlanta Stadium at Silverbacks Park, the stadium name is not the only source of confusion. The facility is still under construction, so there are no locker rooms, only trailers. The grass isn’t grass, it’s turf. The press box has no functional electrical outlets. It isn’t even a […]