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April 30, 2025
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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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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