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December 21, 2024
The N.C. High School Athletic Association’s 4A state championship game between 4A West champion Grimsley and 4A East champion Rolesville kicks off at 7:06 p.m. It is being played at UNC’s Kenan Stadium. This is a live blog that will have regular updates over the course of the night. Make sure to regularly refresh the
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Here are my predicted winners of each state championship game. Feedback is welcome at my X account: @JoelBryantHSOT. I’d be happy to explain any of these picks there! I’ll keep a tally of my correct and incorrect picks for next week’s version of this article, and so on. Other Weeks’ Picks: Predicted Winners: State Championships
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It’s picture day at basketball practice for the Northern Nash High School Knights. Number 34, that’s Emily Clay, a four-sport athlete at the school She loves each team, but softball, that’s hers. “Softball was my first love,” Clay smiled Brandon Clay is her coach and her dad. “The softball player is competitive, super competitive,” Brandon
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Chapel Hill, N.C. — The head coach who won six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots is coming to Chapel Hill. From the first rumors that Bill Belichick was interviewing with the University of North Carolina through the introductory press conference and celebratory appearance on campus, WRAL has been tracking the coach’s hiring process.
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By JOE REEDY, AP Sports Writer Netflix is planning to provide plenty of gifts for viewers of its two Christmas Day games, including Mariah Carey kicking it all off with a taped performance of “All I Want for Christmas is You.” Yet, Netflix executive Brandon Riegg realizes it all amounts to a lump of coal
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By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer Patrick Mahomes threw a walk-off pass to win the Super Bowl. Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off grand slam to win a World Series game. Stephen Curry said “nuit, nuit” to win an Olympic basketball title in Paris, Noah Lyles won 100-meter gold by about the smallest margin possible, and
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting,
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FARMVILLE, N.C. – Woven into Farmville Central’s DNA is the ability to meet the moment. Nine days after a 66-62 loss at West Bladen, revenge was on its mind. The Jaguars knew it, the Knights knew it, and so did the near-capacity crowd that poured in to watch what would be a 66-58 victory. Farmville
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Our prediction for this Segunda Division match: Cartagena Albacete Cartagena will look to make amends for back-to-back losses to Castellon and Granada when they take on Albacete in the La Liga 2 round 21. Los Blanquinegros have been struggling at the back of late and, as a result, the bookies see them as underdogs in
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Grimsley High School and Rolesville High School have established themselves as North Carolina’s two best football teams over the course of the 2024 season. On Friday night at 7:00 p.m., the Whirlies and the Rams will face off for the N.C. High School Athletic Association’s top honor: the 4A state championship. With multiple big time
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