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April 27, 2025
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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The University of South Carolina has landed another defender from Eastern North Carolina. Havelock High School athlete Donovan Darden committed to the Gamecocks on Monday afternoon. According to On3, 247Sports, and Rivals, he is a 3-star prospect. The commitment comes within a month of South Carolina adding a pledge from Vance County High School edge
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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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The East never led in the N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Boys Basketball Game on Monday night, and the West cruised to its third straight victory in the game. Behind a 30-point performance by Southern Guilford’s Jamias Ferere, the West beat the East 108-92 at The Fieldhouse at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. The was tied
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Jasmine Felton’s last high school basketball game representing Northeastern was one to remember. The 5-foot-11 guard recorded a double-double en route to earning most valuable player honors in the N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Girls Basketball Team. Felton’s 30-point, 10-rebound performance helped the East to an 84-68 win over the West. Felton’s scoring was efficient.
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Charlotte Christian graduate D.J. Layton became North Carolina’s second high school player selected in this year’s MLB Draft when he was taken in the 6th round, 189th overall, by the Baltimore Orioles. The first was East Rowan’s Cobb Hightower. Layton hit .449 this year with 40 hits, 34 RBIs, 30 runs scored, 19 stolen bases,
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The dream senior year for Cobb Hightower has turned into a dream summer as well. The East Rowan graduate, fresh off winning the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A state championship, was drafted in the third round of the MLB Draft, 88th overall, by the San Diego Padres. Hightower, who is committed to UNC, has
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