Three games were played in the soccer Final Four, and three of the four teams were from the ACC. And only three goals were scored all weekend, one in each game. Sunday afternoon in Frisco, Texas, the Tar Heels’ impressive post-season run came to an end when Graham Zusi scooped up a second-half rebound at […]
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UNC men’s soccer team advance to NCAA final
The UNC men’s soccer side knocked off No. 1-ranked Wake Forest, 1-0, Friday evening in Frisco, Texas. Brian Shriver scored in the fourth minute. Wake, the defending national champion, entered the game with a sterling 21-1-1 record, while the Heels were seeded 13th in the tournament with only a 14-7-1 record. Although on paper the […]
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Attention State fans: only 7,000 tickets left for Papajohns.com Bowl!
The surging Pack play Rutgers Monday, Dec. 29, in Birmingham, Ala. The school was allotted 10,000 tickets to sell and the N&O reported today that just under 3,000 have been sold. No doubt it will become a tougher ticket as the date approaches, but why wait: The N.C. State athletic site has all the resources […]
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Professional women’s soccer to return to Cary? And UNC women win NCAA soccer title
The Carolina Courage and the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) folded five years ago, but a new group is giving professional soccer a go, in an outfit called Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS), which will begin play in 2009. The proposed new local team would be based in Cary (and its 7,000-seat WakeMed Soccer Park) and […]
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âCanes fire Peter Laviolette
Press conference announced for 11:30 this morning at the RBC Center. Check back later today for more from Kate Shefte. A week ago, Kate speculated about the possibility of a coaching change in the near future. 12:08 PM UPDATE: The new coach is… the old coach, Paul Maurice, the 41-year-old who coached the squad to […]
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The Tar Heels women are once again loaded. Can they win it all?
The highest peaks of women’s college basketball hold only a handful of schools and coaches. The unquestioned twin titans of the game are Pat Summitt and her University of Tennessee Volunteers and Geno Auriemma and his University of Connecticut Huskies. Read also: Wolfpack women toughen up with brutal schedule Expectations high in McCallie’s second season […]
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College football news: State’s Wilson honored, Tar Heels going to Charlotte!
N.C. State’s freshman quarterback Russell Wilson began the season by getting knocked out with a concussion. It’s been all gravy ever since. Yesterday, he became the first freshman quarterback named to the ACC’s all-conference team. Today, he was named rookie of the year. Among his signal accomplishments: He passed for 1,769 yards and led the […]
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Video “highlight”: Activating the Plensa sculpture
Monday night, a sizable crowd turned out for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Durham Performing Arts Center. Politicos mingled with the hoi polloi, who wandered through the facility, munching on crudités and sipping soda and hot cider. The evening’s announced highlight, as it were, was the ignition of the “Sleep No More” light sculpture […]
