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January 8, 2025
By Brian Murphy, WRAL Florida State and Clemson, the ACC’s top two football programs, were picked to finish atop the league standings again in 2024 in a poll of 170 conference media members. The schools have won 12 of the last 13 ACC football titles, including Florida State’s 2023 championship. Florida State attracted 81 first-place
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Cardinal Gibbons High School will send an offensive lineman to play at a Division I FBS school in Virginia. Yesterday, senior offensive tackle Jack Sheehan committed to play for the Monarchs of Old Dominion University. The Crusader is listed at 6-foot-6 and 310 pounds. Sheehan was named as an honorable mention selection to the 2023
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Representatives from the N.C. High School Athletic Association spoke with the State Board of Education on Wednesday morning about a hot topic in high school sports — name, image, and likeness. For about 40 minutes, NCHSAA Commissioner Que Tucker and Tod Morgan, the chair of the NCHSAA NIL Committee, provided insights into how NIL policies
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These are the latest HighSchoolOT Top 15 rankings for each of North Carolina’s six area codes. HSOT also has statewide Top 25 rankings, which can be found at the following link: Links to the most up-to-date rankings for the six area codes are below. They will be updated each Sunday this fall. Latest HighSchoolOT Area
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HighSchoolOT has released its preseason football rankings for the 2024 North Carolina high school football season. HSOT has two sets of rankings: a statewide Top 25 and top 15s for each of North Carolina’s six area codes. The area code rankings have already been released and can be found at the links below: More of
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As a final bow on the 2023-24 athletic season, we’re looking back on 24 athletes from the class of 2024 who certainly left their mark. Some set records. Some won championships. Some distinguished themselves by how many sports they had all-state potential in. Others were so dominant at one sport that they won’t soon be
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By Ashlee Buhler Consider the first leg of the “redemption tour” complete. At last, the U.S. women’s gymnastics team is back on top of the Olympic medal podium after bringing home the silver at the Tokyo 2020 Games (171.296). Italy nabbed its first Olympic team medal in 96 years with the silver (165.494). Brazil won
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NC State has a lineage of local leaders on the defensive side of the ball. With Payton Wilson off to the NFL, Cary native Davin Vann is back for a 5th year with the wolfpack and ready to fill the leadership void. Vann sat down with WRAL’s Pat Welter at ACC Kickoff to set expectations
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By WRAL/AP NANTERRE, France — NANTERRE, France (AP) — Kaylee McKeown still rules the women’s Olympic backstroke, but the Americans are right there, finishing with silver and bronze behind the Australian in the 100 back on Tuesday night. World-record holder Regan Smith, who broke McKeown’s world mark with a time of 57.13 seconds at the
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By Leo Santos The wait is over. After 24 years, the U.S. men’s soccer team will play a quarterfinal match at an Olympic Games. The U.S. secured its spot in the knockout round following its 3-0 win – including a brace scored by winger Kevin Paredes – over Guinea in what proved to be a
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