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January 2, 2025
By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer TROON, Scotland — TROON, Scotland (AP) — Justin Thomas made his British Open debut at Royal Troon eight years ago, and it taught him everything he needs to know about what can make this major so maddening. It had nothing to do with gorse bushes or pot bunkers. It
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer Raleigh, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes and forward Evgeny Kuznetsov have agreed to part ways, the team announced on its website. On Wednesday, the team placed Kuznetsov on unconditional waivers for the purpose of contract termination. “Ultimately both sides agreed this was the best course of action for
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For the second straight season, the East won the N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Boys Soccer Game. At Grimsley High School on Tuesday evening, the East broke a 1-1 halftime tie and won 3-2. The game-winning goal came from Finn Peters of J.H. Rose in the 45th minute. The game started with a lot of
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An early goal led the West team to its first win in the N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Girls Soccer Game since 2015. The West defeated the East 1-0 on Tuesday night at Grimsley High School in Greensboro. It was the East team that had the possession advantage in the first few minutes, but on
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Cox Mill graduate Braylon Whitaker was selected in the 19th round, 579th overall, of the MLB Draft by the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday. Whitaker, and outfielder, has committed to Wingate for college. This past season, he batted .500 with 39 hits, and 37 runs for the Chargers, having .619 on-base percentage with 1.350 OPS and
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By Clark Gerber, WRAL Sports contributor The internet is a big place. Unless you’re 100% plugged in all the time (and let’s be clear, that is NOT recommended), you’re going to miss some stuff. Let us do that work. You can be a well-adjusted human being and still catch all the best sports moments of
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By Reuters While most 2024 Olympians will be battling for glory in Paris, the world’s best surfers will be going for gold nearly 10,000 miles away on the island of Tahiti, where the spinning blue barrels of Teahupo’o might be the real star of the show. Competition is likely to be fierce between the sport’s
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By MARIA SHERMAN, AP Music Writer After a widely panned performance of the U.S. national anthem at the MLB Home Run Derby, country singer Ingrid Andress apologized Tuesday and said she was drunk. “I’m checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “That was not
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By Pat Welter, WRAL Put me in the hall of freezing cold takes, but I thought Jacolby Criswell was going to beat out Drake Maye for North Carolina’s starting quarterback job back in 2022. Admittedly, I was zigging when others were going off Maye’s five-star recruiting status, but it’s hard to tell in practice. There’s
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By KEN MAGUIRE, AP Sports Writer TROON, Scotland — TROON, Scotland (AP) — Rory McIlroy insists he wasn’t ghosting Tiger Woods. Woods was one of the big-name stars who texted McIlroy after the Northern Irishman’s late collapse at the U.S. Open last month. “Full disclosure, I changed my number two days after the U.S. Open,
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