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College Football Playoff’s silly early bracket reveal remains ominous for SMU, ACC
Putting aside the utter pointlessness of a College Football Playoff reveal with five weeks to go in the season, there are a few useful lessons to be gleaned from Tuesday … Click to Continue »
Turns out, Martin Necas is who the Carolina Hurricanes thought he was all along
The least surprising thing about Martin Necas’ start to the season is that it’s happening. This was always in him. He was always capable of it.. To see the Carolina … Click to Continue »
In Duke basketball’s opener, Kon Knueppel was the Maine event, not Cooper Flagg
This is what everyone came to see, the jaw-dropping debut of Duke’s latest freshman phenom, a player who immediately commanded the attention of everyone in Cameron from almost the first … Cli...
Anticipation blooms as college basketball season begins, a promising one for Triangle
The basketball season we’ve all been waiting for begins Monday night. A freshman phenom. An old-school fifth-year star. A double banner-raising. Two top 10 teams and another hoping to prove …...
The Carolina Hurricanes — and their Lenovo sellout streak — keep gathering momentum
Multiple Waldos sat along the glass, not far from Ricky Bobby. The Dumb and Dumber guys didn’t look out of place. Patrick Star left Bikini Bottom to spend the night … Click to Continue »
This wasn’t the season UNC football wanted, but there’s a reason Mack Brown was here
It would be both fitting and ironic, in this season when so very little has gone right for North Carolina, if this is the year Mack Brown finally successfully pursues … Click to Continue »
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The ACC hoops world, according to Luke DeCock: Promising outlooks for NC’s Big Four
If the ACC wants the respect on Selection Sunday it tends to retroactively deserve with its play in the NCAA tournament, it needs to win more big nonconference games and … Click to Continue »
How Carolina Hurricanes roster continues to be shaped by former GMs Rutherford, Francis
It’s old-faces weekend for the Carolina Hurricanes, as the tail end of their State Fair road trip takes them to the Pacific Northwest and the current domiciles of former general … Click to Co...
For NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, TV network’s new name is the only change
What was once red is now blue, right down to Mike Maniscalco and Tripp Tracy’s ties. When the Carolina Hurricanes last played on Saturday, the game was televised on Bally … Click to Continue ...
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Florida State’s ACC betrayal no laughing matter, but first-ever loss to Duke sure is
Haha. Haha haha haha haha. (Deep breath.) Haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha. Haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha … Click to Continue »
NC State may pay for its expansion vote this week, but Cal brings something new to ACC
If N.C. State makes the long trip to California and comes back clinging desperately to very thin hopes of bowl eligibility, mired in the ACC cellar, the Wolfpack has only … Click to Continue »...
Carolina Hurricanes, a work in progress, show forward movement with still a long way to go
If it wasn’t clear on opening night, it is now. The past few years, it felt like the Carolina Hurricanes came storming into the season, picking up where they left … Click to Continue »
First Zion, now Cooper Flagg. Let the ride be as wild with this generational freshman
It doesn’t feel like six years have passed since Zion Williamson electrified Duke, the Triangle and all of college basketball simultaneously, somehow managing to eclipse all of the hype that ...
Hurricanes newcomers played well, but one shined brighter than the rest in opening loss
Of all the new faces on display Friday night — six in all in the Carolina Hurricanes’ lineup — none looked better or needed less time to make his introduction … Click to Continue »
Who are the Carolina Hurricanes, really? As NHL season begins, it depends who you ask
If you listen to the hockey cognoscenti, the sometimes legitimate and sometimes self-ordained experts, the Carolina Hurricanes are taking a step back this season. The New Jersey Devils are the ...
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Hurricanes rookie wasn’t expected to make the NHL roster this season — until he did
After one drill at Wednesday’s practice, the opening of the season only two days away, Rod Brind’Amour pulled Jackson Blake aside. The conversation was so brief that neither actually came …...
Triangle college sports have identity greater than the sum of flailing football teams
If you’ve been disappointed by this college football season, where not only the thrill of victory but the bare minimum of drama and excitement seem to lurk everywhere but the … Click to Conti...
David West, still fighting for athletes, objects to landmark House settlement with NCAA
As more people take a deeper look at the full proposed version of the groundbreaking House settlement with the NCAA, more people are finding problems with it. Not the idea … Click to Continue ...
Hurricanes open camp in less than a month, and Seth Jarvis is unsigned. Time to panic?
With less than a month to go before the opening of training camp, is it time to be worried that Seth Jarvis still doesn’t have a contract for this season? … Click to Continue »
Anson Dorrance got the win he felt he needed to secure his legacy. Then he walked away
The end comes for everyone, eventually, no matter how many games or championships you’ve won, or how you’ve reshaped an entire sport in a way no one is ever likely … Click to Continue »
PNC Arena architects offer first look at how $300 million renovation could refresh arena
In the year since the historic agreement to renovate PNC Arena and develop its surroundings was reached, discussion of what the updated arena might actually look like has been mostly … Click to...
The Hurricanes desperately needed Eric Staal to become a star. He delivered.
History should record that the Carolina Hurricanes were also extremely high on Zach Parise going into that epochal 2003 draft, one of the two or three best in the entire … Click to Continue »
NCAA’s House settlement great for ex-players, but everyone has to pay football’s tab
As soon as Friday, the settlement in what’s known as the House lawsuit against the NCAA will be finalized and presented to a judge for approval, outlining how billions of … Click to Continue ...
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They already sold out the ACC for a bag of nickels. Why not sell the name, too?
You’d have to look for a long time to find the actual words “Atlantic” and “Coast” and “Conference” anywhere at the ACC’s big football extravaganza. Even before the league went ...
ACC’s football kickoff a throwback to what made the league great: Expensive lawyering
These football media days are a throwback to the time when college football wasn’t a year-round sport, when it took a gathering like this to mark the end of the … Click to Continue »
UNC’s Bubba Cunningham ready for his turn in March Madness’ hottest seat
A few years ago, when Bubba Cunningham joined the NCAA men’s basketball committee and found himself on the path toward becoming chairman, he couldn’t ever have envisioned some of the … Clic...
Retooled Hurricanes still have some work to do — and a lot to prove this season
With Evgeni Kuznetsov apparently headed out and Martin Necas apparently staying, the Carolina Hurricanes’ offseason of upheaval is more or less complete, leaving a dramatically altered roster i...
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Eric Tulsky never expected this, but the Hurricanes’ new GM is embracing the challenge
Eric Tulsky didn’t set out to crack the hockey code or win a Stanley Cup. He was just trying to build a better electric-car battery. The hockey analysis and blogging? … Click to Continue »
The DeChambeau-McIlroy duel in the pines rekindled the aura of Pinehurst at its best
Six minutes after Bryson DeChambeau’s winning putt dropped, Rory McIlroy had the courtesy Lexus packed and spun the wheels in the dust on his way out of Pinehurst to … … Click to Continue ...
Welcome back to Pinehurst: USGA plants its flag in NC’s Sandhills for years to come
The giant scoreboard in the fan village, one of the first thing visitors to the U.S. Open see after entering the Pinehurst property proper, bore a simple message instead of … Click to Continue ...