Manager David Bell (left) and hitting coach Ryan Jackson (bottom right) will be back with the Carolina Mudcats next season, the Cincinnati Reds organization has announced. Tom Brown, who was with Class A Sarasota each of the past three seasons, will be the new pitching coach replacing Rigo Beltran. Jimmy Mattocks will return as athletic […]
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NCCU travels to WSSU looking to salvage disappointing season
N.C. Central and Winston-Salem State used to be big rivals for the CIAA football championship. And on seemingly countless occasions the Rams – when they were coached by Bill Hayes who played for the Eagles, later was NCCU athletics director and is now A.D. at WSSU – put the one blotch on the schedule that […]
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Harper makes debut as ACC women’s basketball opens tonight
It’s been 34 years since anyone but Kay Yow was patrolling the sidelines for a season opener as the women’s head basketball coach at N.C. State. Tonight things will be different as Kellie Harper, named in April to fill the full-time vacancy left by Yow’s death in January following a 22-year fight with breast cancer, […]
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Snyderwine on list for Groza Award
Duke’s Will Snyderwine is one of the 20 semifinalists for the Lou Groza Award, given annually to the nation’s top placekicker. Snyderwine has made 11 of 12 field-goal attempts this season, including his last 11 attempts. Three finalists will be honored at the Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Awards Banquet on Dec. 8 in West Palm […]
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Duke looking for a huge upset Saturday against No. 7 Georgia Tech
Duke will have to believe in miracles on Saturday. The math says that the Blue Devils are still in the race to win the ACC’s Coastal Division and somehow wind up in a BCS bowl. But Coach David Cutcliffe’s club would have to pull off a couple of big-time upsets to accomplish that. The challenge […]
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Wolfpack women sign four including Northern Durham’s Williams
N.C. State’s first-year coach Kellie Harper has signed four women’s basketball players including Breezy Williams of Durham’s Northern High to National Letters of Intent. Joining Williams, a 5-11 wing who shared PAC-6 player of the year honors last season as a junior, are 5-5 point guard Myisha Goodwin of Lorton, Va.; 6-1 power forward Kody […]
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Ginyard ties career high for Tar Heels, who spoil Moton’s NCCU debut
SMITH CENTER/CHAPEL HILL LeVelle Moton’s first game assignment as N.C. Central’s head basketball coach wasn’t supposed to be easy, and in fact he said he relished the challenge. The Eagles, coming off a 4-27 campaign and in their third season of Division I basketball, come into Wednesday’s game as prohibitive underdogs against defending NCAA champion […]
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Duke women sign five in recruiting class ranked No. 1 nationally
Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie has signed five players to women’s basketball letters of intent, a group that ESPN HoopGurlz says is the best in the country this year. The signees include 6-3 wing Haley Peters of Red Bank, N.J.; 5-11 guard Chelsea Gray of Manteca, Calif.; 6-1 guard Tricia Liston of River Forest, Ill.; […]
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Tar Heels ink two women’s basketball recruits
UNC has signed a pair of high school seniors to letters of intent in women’s basketball. Playing for Sylvia Hatchell’s Tar Heels next season will be 5-9 guard Latifah Coleman of Pageland, S.C., and 5-7 point guard Shannon Smith of Gastonia, N.C. Coleman, who attends Central High, is a three-time all-state performer who has over […]
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No easy debut for Moton as NCCU visits Tar Heels tonight
LeVelle Moton may not have known quite what he was getting into when he first decided he wanted to be a college basketball coach. Tonight at 9, he finds out. In his very first game Moton, who was an assistant at his alma mater for two seasons before taking over the reins, will lead his […]