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December 23, 2024
By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports The Soccer Tournament returns to WakeMed Soccer Park for its second year and with both North Carolina FC and NC Courage competing for the $1 million dollar prize, the message is clear: “protect our home.” “80% of these guys have worn the badge before, and they know there’s a community
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Joe Rock fanned nine over six innings to lead the Durham Bulls to a 10-3 victory over the Gwinnett Stripers at the DBAP on Tuesday night. Rock (W, 4-2) permitted just two solo home runs across his victory, Durham’s season-high sixth straight win. Curtis Mead, Tristan Peters and Heriberto Hernandez each clubbed homers for the
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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 Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer Another Michael Jordan trading card has broken a record. A signed one-of-one 2003-04 Upper Deck Jordan card sold Saturday for $2,928,000, according to Goldin Auctions. The figure sets a record for any Jordan trading card. Goldin’s website shows nine bids were submitted on Saturday for the Upper Deck
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HighSchoolOT is keeping track of the North Carolina high school football players in the class of 2026 that are ranked by a national recruiting service. Here are links to the rankings from the services we follow: When there’s a future update, we’ll slide the current table down so we can monitor the trends. Current Rankings
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer The San Francisco 49ers announced Tuesday they are signing running back Christian McCaffrey to a two-year extension. The extension keeps McCaffrey under contract through the 2027 season, according to a news release on the 49ers’ website. “Two years ago, we were ecstatic to welcome Christian McCaffrey to the
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In a move reflecting volatile and changing times in college athletics, North Carolina state legislators advanced a bill Tuesday that would require the state’s two largest public universities to play each other annually in football and basketball and play three other top public system schools regularly. Under the measure, which cleared
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By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer DUBLIN, Ohio — DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Dozens of players gathered Tuesday for a solemn celebration of life for Grayson Murray, the PGA Tour winner who had turned the corner from struggles with alcoholism and depression only to take his life a day after withdrawing from a tournament. “All
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On Tuesday, Rivals released an updated Rivals250 football prospect rankings for the class of 2026. The last update was in March of this year. Five of the 11 players from North Carolina on the updated rankings were risers from the previous edition. West Forsyth High School’s 6-foot-3, 270-pound offensive lineman Pierre Dean, a.k.a. PJ, shot
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The N.C. Baseball Coaches Association is recognizing the state’s top players from the 2024 baseball season. On Tuesday, the NCBCA released its all-state teams for individual N.C. High School Athletic Association classifications. The 1A, 2A, and 3A classifications have been released, however the 4A classifications has not. The all-state teams are voted on by the
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