WAUG radio (750 AM) has announced it will be carrying all 20 Washington Redskins preseason and regular-season games this year. WAUG has been the Redskins’ local affiliate for the past two seasons. The commercial station, owned by St. Augustine’s College, also has a full day of sports programming on Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 7 […]
Mike Potter
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Kahaulelio swings the bat well in the clutch as Mudcats win second straight
FIVE COUNTY STADIUM/ZEBULON Back for Game 3 of the Carolina Mudcats’ series with the first-place Chattanooga Lookouts, and as the action begins the series is all tied up. The rains hit Zebulon in late afternoon, but the tarp comes off the field about 45 minutes before the game and everybody’s going to be ready to […]
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Blue Devils muster in Raleigh Thursday evening
Duke is currently conducting its second annual Athletics Tour, with head football coach David Cutcliffe (pictured) as the principal speaker. The show moves to Raleigh Thursday at 5:30 p.m. with a session at the Tobacco Road Sports Café on Glenwood Ave. The event, open to the public, includes an autograph and photo session, door prizes […]
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Mudcats come back to win four innings after iron-glove miscue
FIVE COUNTY STADIUM/ZEBULON The Carolina Mudcats come into Game 2 of their current five-game homestand against the Chattanooga Lookouts needing as many victories as they can get. The Mudcats lost the first-half race in the Southern League’s North Division by just one game to the Huntsville Stars, but have started slow in the second half […]
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Mudcats drop series opener as Lookouts fire a shutout
FIVE COUNTY STADIUM/ZEBULON It’s Game 1 of the Carolina Mudcats’ series with the Chattanooga Lookouts, and the first time I’ve been able to make it out here in 20 days. I had scheduled a multi-day event with some extended family to coincide with a hole in the Durham Bulls schedule before I was shown the […]
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Wolfpack, Tar Heels each picked for bronze
N.C. State has been picked to finish third in the Atlantic Division while UNC is picked third in the Coastal in voting by the Atlantic Coast Conference Media Association. The vote of 83 media representatives at the conference’s annual football Kickoff event at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro picked Duke to finish last in the […]
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Gold rush! Pomeranz gem sparks USA to Classic title
Start up that classic ’70s song from “Queen.” USA Baseball’s National Team has won the World Baseball Challenge. Drew Pomeranz (pictured) of Ole Miss took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, helping his team avenge an earlier defeat in an 8-1 pounding of Germany in the championship game in Prince George, B.C. After the Germans […]
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Mudcats drop series finale despite Cumberland’s blast
Getaway night turned out not to be a great one for the Carolina Mudcats. David Welch went seven innings, getting his first positive decision since June 5 as the Huntsville Stars dropped the Mudcats 4-1. Shaun Cumberland (pictured) picked up Carolina’s only run with his solo homer in the seventh – his first clout of […]
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Colon’s leg broken in two places; obviously he’s out for a while
USA Baseball’s National Team captain Christian Colon (pictured) will be unavailable for Sunday’s championship game of the World Baseball Challenge in Prince George, B.C., after suffering a broken tibia and fibula Friday night. Colon, the shortstop out of Cal State-Fullerton, was carried off the field in the top of the eighth after Canada’s Nic Lendvoy […]
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Mudcats’ Wood gets the call to Louisville
The Carolina Mudcats’ ace pitcher finally got his promotion. Southpaw Travis Wood has been promoted to Triple-A Louisville, and scheduled to make his International League debut at Syracuse tonight at 7. Wood is currently leading the Southern League in ERA (1.21) and strikeouts (103), and is on a nine-game winning streak. The win streak is […]