The RailHawks’ next home game is Saturday, April 14, at 7 p.m. at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary. For tickets, visit the Carolina RailHawks website. Follow our coverage of the RailHawks on Triangle Offense, our sports blog. It was an early August evening in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, when almost 13,000 chanting, vuvuzela-blowing boricuas watched with […]
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N.C. State Wolfpack ends game NCAA run, loses to Kansas 60-57 in Sweet 16
TBS—One possession separated N.C. State from destiny: their first trip to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament since 1986 and, more tantalizing for North Carolina sports fanatics, arguably the most significant basketball game between the Wolfpack and the North Carolina Tar Heels in the schools’ storied rivalry. In the end, N.C. State’s 60-57 loss […]
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Hoop Cheese: UNC and N.C. State feel the agony and the ecstasy of the Sweet 16, and more
So distraught was Indyweek Sports editor David Fellerath over Duke University’s premature ouster from the NCAA Tournament last weekend in Greensboro that he decided to join a crisis response team and volunteer his services to help Duke with media management over the coming month. Or, maybe he’s actually taking some media classes at Duke for […]
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Carolina RailHawks take 1-0 scrimmage win over UNC-Greensboro
Neil MorrisBrian Shriver challenges during RailHawks 1-0 scrimmage win over UNC-Greensboro WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/CARY—The immaculate emerald turf of WakeMed Soccer Park was the perfect setting for a sunbathed St. Patrick’s Day scrimmage between the Carolina RailHawks and UNC-Greensboro Spartans. The RailHawks collected a 1-0 win, with an own goal off a botched Spartans clearance late […]
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Major League Soccer executives to visit Triangle on April 12
Executives for Major League Soccer will visit the Triangle next month to meet local fans, media and various business and civic leaders, according to Curt Johnson, president of the Carolina RailHawks. The all-day event will take place Thursday, April 12. Among those representing MLS will be President Mark Abbott and Will Kuhns, the league’s director […]
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Not your Reagan-era 21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: Perhaps it’s more useful to view 21 Jump Street as the bawdy sequel to Project X than a remake of a late-’80s TV cop drama series, and not just because both screenplays were written by Michael Bacall. With drug use and its […]
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Pins and needling: Wolfpack awaits its NCAA Tourney fate
@PackPride If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then self-quotation is probably something best assessed using the guidance of Freud or Jung. That disclaimer aside, yesterday’s North Carolina-N.C. State matchup at the ACC Tournament recalled something I wrote on February 17, two days before Karl Hess gave birth to the inaugural Wolfpack Unlimited Award […]
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Out with the old and in with the new: Carolina RailHawks top Vancouver Whitecaps on penalties in preseason shootout
Rob Kinnan PhotographyGoalkeeper Akira Fitzgerald skies during RailHawks PK shootout win over the Vancouver Whitecaps WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/CARY—How surreal was Sunday afternoon’s friendly between the Carolina RailHawks and the Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer? To begin, there were as many RailHawks who took the field during last October’s playoff loss to the NSC […]
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Tyler Zeller’s House of Pain: Tar Heels outlast Terrapins 88-64
Neil MorrisRoy Williams and Tyler Zeller share a laugh after the Tar Heels 88-64 win over Maryland SMITH CENTER/CHAPEL HILL—As you would expect from any senior class tribute, a wealth of pomp and circumstance surrounded North Carolina’s final home game of the 2011-12 season. There was the perennial salute to the graduating members of the […]
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Martin Rennie returns to Carolina for friendly between RailHawks and Whitecaps
Neil MorrisVancouver Whitecaps manager Martin Rennie WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/CARY—At first glance, it was like nothing had changed. On Monday, the Carolina RailHawks held a press conference in advance of the team’s opening preseason friendly. Joining master of ceremonies Dean Linke on the dais were the familiar faces of team president Curt Johnson, assistant coach Dewan […]
