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April 27, 2025
Flag football has exploded as a girls high school sport in the United States and in North Carolina. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools was the first district in North Carolina to adopt flag football. Union County and Cabarrus County followed. Earlier this year, Wake County, New Hanover County, Durham County, and some individual schools like Cardinal Gibbons, Vance
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Fort Worth, Texas — UNC junior Vance Honeycutt was selected 22nd overall by the Baltimore Orioles in the first round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft on Sunday. Honeycutt is the first Tar Heel to be drafted in the first round since Aaron Sabato was selected 27th overall by the Minnesota Twins in 2020.
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By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer FORT WORTH, Texas — FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Travis Bazzana feels like he represents an entire country, not just a college. Cleveland selected the Australian second baseman on Sunday night with the No. 1 pick in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft, and three players from Wake Forest were
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A number of roster changes for the East-West All-Star Basketball Games have been announced by the N.C. Coaches Association. There have been three changes to the girls rosters and six changes to the boys rosters. On the girls side, Laynie Smith of Chapel Hill and Zamareya Jones of North Pitt have dropped out of the
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Some of the players on the field for the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association East-West All-Star Soccer games on Tuesday will be different than previously announced. The NCCA announced on Sunday evening that five players have dropped from the game, and some of them will not be replaced. Only one girls soccer player will not participate
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Former Salisbury two-sport star and UNC junior Vance Honeycutt has been selected with the 22nd overall pick in the MLB Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. Honeycutt achieved notoriety nationwide with clutch hits to help the Tar Heels reach Omaha. He’s also the Tar Heels’ all-time leading home-run hitter (65), finishing his college career with 76 stolen
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By STEVE DOUGLAS, AP Sports Writer BERLIN — BERLIN (AP) — Spain is the king of European soccer for a record fourth time. For England, it’s another agonizing near-miss in the team’s decades-long tale of underachievement. Completing a tournament the team dominated from start to finish, Spain beat England 2-1 in the European Championship final
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Eric Tulsky, General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has signed defenseman Dominik Badinka to a three-year, entry-level contract. Badinka will receive $775,000 at the NHL level and $85,000 at the American Hockey League (AHL) level for all three seasons, and the deal will include signing bonuses worth
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By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Tennis Writer LONDON — LONDON (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz was ready from the get-go this time. A year ago in the Wimbledon final against Novak Djokovic, Alcaraz got off to a slow start, dropped the opening set and needed five to claim his first championship at the All England Club. Sunday’s
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HighSchoolOT is keeping track of the North Carolina high school football players in the class of 2025 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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