Unfair Game: The Overlooked Success of NCSU Women’s Basketball
NC State’s women’s basketball team is thrilling to watch, but in the Triangle, and the country, men’s sports dominate.
What to Do This Weekend in the Triangle
Be prepared to talk basketball. March Madness is about to get real.
Year In Review: Five Stories Charting Challenges and Progress for N.C.’s LGBTQ Community
Despite some progress, the LGBTQ community also endured a year of vicious attacks from some of the state’s most prominent GOP elected officials.
‘Discredited’ Takes a Long Look at the UNC-Chapel Hill Athletics Scandal, but Fails to Give the Athletes Caught Up in It a Voice
The NCAA is not designed to be understood. Its contradictions are the point, as the new book, “Discredited: The UNC Scandal and College Athletics’ Amateur Ideal” explores, using UNC-Chapel Hill’s scandal-plagued athletics department as its source.
Bill Seeks to Ban Transgender Women From Competing on Women’s Athletics Teams
The bill would compel all public schools and universities in North Carolina to designate their teams as male, female, or co-ed.
NBA Picks Charlotte for 2019 All-Star Game; HB 2 Deal Works Again
The ACC and NCAA already caved, so when the NBA announced today that in light of the HB 2 “compromise” signed by Governor Cooper earlier this year it would bring All-Star Weekend to Charlotte in 2019, it wasn’t all that surprising. Here are the details, from NBA.com: “We have decided to award NBA All-Star 2019…
Drive Through a Protest and Hit Someone? No Worries, State House Says.
Just when it seemed it was safe to protest in North Carolina, a piece of legislation that would shield people who hit protesters with their cars from civil liability passed its second reading in the state House Wednesday. Go ahead and read that again. We’ll give you a moment to wrap your head around it.…
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Team USA Trans Athlete Chris Mosier: Laws Like HB 2, HB 142 Create an Atmosphere of Fear in North Carolina
The recently passed HB 142, along with its predecessor, the notorious HB 2, has created an atmosphere of fear among transgender athletes that even affects their ability to compete, according to Chris Mosier, the first transgender athlete to qualify for Team USA. Speaking on a conference call with journalists Friday, along with state and local…
The Morning Roundup: HB 2 Deal Satisfies NCAA; Heels Come Home
Rad Sports Illustrated cover. OK. Let’s get into it. 1) The NCAA suggests that HB 2 deal is good enough to bring sporting events back to North Carolina. Calling it a move that was “reluctantly” made doesn’t make it any better. The NCAA caved. And the organization knows it. This just about says it all.…
NCAA “Reluctantly” Signs Off on N.C.’s Quasi-HB 2 Repeal
The NCAA announced this morning that its board of governors has “reluctantly voted to allow consideration of championship bids in North Carolina” after the state passed a so-called repeal of HB 2 last week. Last summer, the NCAA pulled its 2016–17 championship games from North Carolina because of HB 2’s provisions regulating bathroom use and…
The Morning Roundup: UNC Plays for Title Tonight
It’s the beginning of a new week, but this isn’t your typical Monday. 1) UNC takes on Gonzaga tonight for the college basketball crown. If you’re a Carolina fan, you don’t need to be reminded about what happened last year. If you’re not—or if you don’t care about college basketball—here’s a quick recap. UNC was…
ACC: North Carolina, Thanks to HB 2 Deal, Will Be Considered for Tournaments
The NCAA has yet to rule on whether or not the HB 2 repeal deal signed by Governor Roy Cooper Thursday is good enough to satisfy the basketball gods, but the Atlantic Coast Conference took little time to put North Carolina back in the competition for hosting rights to championship events. From the ACC: That’s…
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