The UNC women, now 20-3 overall, 5-2 in the conference, appear to have found their form after three consecutive defeats last month. Meanwhile, the Blue Devils women have had a more consistent ride en route to their 19-2 record, 7-1 in conference play. Tonight at the Dean Dome, the Associated Press No. 8 team hosts […]
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Big week in soccer opens …
… and we’re not even talking about the USA-Mexico friendly qualifier set for Wed. Feb. 11 (which conveniently starts and finishes before the Other Big Game that night). Nope, today is opening day for the Carolina RailHawks preseason training camp. As I type, the team has been going at it on a gorgeous, precociously verdant […]
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Audio: Paul Maurice discusses Eric Staal’s injury…
… and Saturday’s game against the Phoenix Coyotes, a team he says is more physical than one might expect from a team coached by the Great One. maurice-020609
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Marcelo Romero: Uruguay to Spain to Cary
CARYProbably the best sign that this year’s RailHawks are getting serious was on the brow of today’s signing, Marcelo Romero. Visible through his closely shaved hair was a Y-shaped scarsurely evidence of his hard-nosed career in the top divisions of Spain. No doubt goalkeeper Chris McClellanor anotherwill find reassurance there. RailHawks management proudly displayed the […]
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Marcelo Romero: La Liga days
We’ll have a fuller report on today’s introduction of Marcelo Romero, veteran of La Liga in Spain, who will now anchor the RailHawks midfield. But for now, enjoy the video. (And, on the screen capture above, doesn’t that Real Madrid player on the right look just like Zinedine Zidane?) [Ed. note: This video came courtesy […]
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Sundance report: Our correspondent writes
Indy freelancer Marc Maximov spent the last two weeks of January where he always does: at Park City, Utah, volunteering with the Sundance Film Festival and taking in films. Lots of films. Every year, he sends an e-mail to his friends with the skinny on the films–especially the documentaries, which he finds to be the […]
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Two Lincoln movies show different sides
Thanks mostly to Oliver Stone, we have seen extensive movie treatments of recent presidents, but curiously, the two most notable feature films about the Great Emancipator were made within a year of each other, and both came in the late 1930s, a time of renewed Lincoln popularity among Depression-era leftists as well as Republicans who […]
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Exploring the Lincoln legend
EXPLORE Books Man and myth: The flood of Lincoln books goes on Presidency Lincoln’s banking crisis and Obama’s Music AbeTunes: now, the mixtape Film Two Lincoln movies show different sides Books It’s time to reread Gore Vidal’s enduring Lincoln Poetry Twelve ways of looking at Abraham Lincoln Culture If Lincoln used Facebook (JPG) (PDF) Abraham […]
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RailHawks sign two-time USL-2 defender of year Mark Schulte
The RailHawks continue to introduce new faces to the squad. Today, the focus moved to the back line as the club announced the signing of Mark Schulte, two-time USL-2 defender of the year. What’s more, the signing will reunite Schulte with his coach of the last two years at Cleveland, Martin Rennie, under whose tutelage […]
