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January 2, 2025
By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports NC State men’s basketball head coach Kevin Keatts met with the media on Thursday morning for the first time in a long time. “It feels like it’s been six months,” he said as he sat down. It was a time of reflection on the team’s run to the Final Four
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The N.C. High School Athletic Association is set to realign its member schools into new classifications and new conferences for the 2025 school year. This upcoming realignment will be one of the most influential in the history of the association. As a result of a successful bylaw vote by the NCHSAA board to limit classifications
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Randy Woodson cast the decisive vote in September that approved that stretched the Atlantic Coast Conference’s geographic bounds to the Pacific and swelled its membership to 18 teams. The NC State chancellor — who took over in Raleigh in 2010 when the ACC had a mere 12 teams — announced Thursday
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By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports It’s nearly 8 a.m. in a hot Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center on NC State’s campus. Former Wolfpack swimmers Bartosz Piszczorowicz and Kacper Stokowski have been in the cool pool for a while. “We always motivate each other, every day we drive to practice every day, we make breakfast every
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By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer TROON, Scotland — TROON, Scotland (AP) — So much for the British Open being one last stand for Rory McIlroy in the majors this year. His best hope now is getting beyond one more day. And he has company from U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau. The protagonists from Pinehurst
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer GENEVA — GENEVA (AP) — The founder of the modern Olympics and former IOC president, Pierre de Coubertin, once said women competing in the Games would be “impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.” Over a century later, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are targeting gender parity in the same city
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By Pat Welter They are swimming while you are sleeping. “Good!” Paul Silver yelled in a voice loud enough to pierce through water. The Marlins of Raleigh swim coach is barking out motivational commands and taking down times at Pullen Park Aquatics center in Raleigh. “In the United States both North Carolina and Raleigh in
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL The Atlantic Coast Conference will turn over redacted copies of its television contracts to the Florida attorney general, ending a lawsuit that attracted support for the ACC from other top collegiate conferences. “The ACC will not be providing any portion of documents containing trade secrets which has been its consistent position,”
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By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports The Carolina Hurricanes have re-signed restricted free agent Jack Drury to a two-year extension that will keep him with the franchise until the end of the 2025-26 season, general manager Eric Tulsky announced in a statement on Wednesday. “Jack took tremendous steps last season to solidify himself as a key
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For the eighth straight year, a player from North Carolina high schools was selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft — this time it was Salisbury’s own Vance Honeycutt, who finished his junior season at UNC. But the North Carolina products don’t stop with Honeycutt, and that’s where this story comes
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