Last night the Vancouver Whitecaps and the Montreal Impact advanced to the USL-1 finals with victories in the two-leg semifinal round. Not only will there be an all-Canadian final, but this represents the victory of the No. 5 and No. 7 seeds over the league’s “big four” of Portland, Carolina, Puerto Rico and Charleston that […]
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RailHawks, USL on the brink? Scrubbing begins on USL Web site
The confrontation between the new ownership of the United Soccer Leagues and a dissident group of first division owners led by the Carolina RailHawks has escalated a notch. Three dissident clubs, including the RailHawks, haven’t paid their fees to participate next season. On the USL’s Web site, work has begun to remove links to the […]
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Happy First Friday: Made in USA opens tonight in Raleigh
Here are some photos of the Made in USA exhibit, opening in Raleigh’s warehouse district. It’s one of the highlights of the First Friday tour, and it’s happening at 320 S. Harrington St. We’ll have a longer look from Rebekah Cowell soon, but here are a couple of photos taken by Carter Hubbard, co-curator of […]
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Olympics fever: Catch it … or don’t
UPDATE 11:44 am: Chicago was “stunningly eliminated” in the first round of voting, as was Tokyo. UPDATE 2 1:08 pm: It’s Rio. This morning we step away from the hurly-burly of Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary sports to consider the big question of the day: Which overreaching metropolis will earn the right to build […]
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Cadillac Man finds home at NC Literary Festival
Indy freelancer Rebekah L. Cowell spent a good deal of time at the North Carolina Literary Festival last month and sends us this report on one of the weekend’s biggest hits. Read her festival-related stories about area authors Daniel Wallace, Nic Brown and Elizabeth Edwards here. In the prestigious author lineup of events at the […]
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RailHawks’ Daniel Paladini makes USL-1 first team, hopes to train overseas in off-season
The RailHawks’ stellar midfielder Daniel Paladini was named to the All-League USL First Division’s first team, the USL announced today. Yesterday, the RailHawks’ defender Mark Schulte was named to the second team. Here’s the complete first team: GK: Steve Cronin (Portland Timbers) D: Nelson Akwari (Charleston Battery) D: Cristian Arrieta (Puerto Rico Islanders) D: Matt […]
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RailHawks’ Schulte named to USL 2nd team; handicapping the 1st team (how many RailHawks?)
Mark Schulte, the RailHawks’ workhorse of a center back and team captain, was named to the all-USL-1 second team today. Schulte, who was a two-time defender of the year in the USL-2 while playing under coach Martin Rennie at Clevelandbefore both decamped for Caryled a defense that conceded only 19 goals, good for best in […]
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RailHawks’ season ends; Rennie: “We have the nucleus of a good team… we can make it stronger.”
WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/ CARYBummer. It was a lovely evening for soccer, sunny and mild in early fall. Just as it’s a little early for the leaves to change color and drop from the trees, it was a little early for the RailHawks’ remarkable season to end. But end it did, as an exhausted and increasingly […]
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RailHawks need two goals from Vancouver today; Candon replies to post on away goals
After the RailHawks lost 1-0 Thursday night at Vancouver, they’re in the unenviable position of needing a two-goal victory margin to move on in the USL-1 playoffs without throwing themselves into the crapshoot of a penalty-kick finish. Kickoff is at 5 p.m. at WakeMed Soccer Park. Tickets here. Against the Whitecaps on Thursday, the RailHawks […]
