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April 2, 2025
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Bill Walton, who starred for John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins before becoming a Hall of Famer for his NBA career and one of the biggest stars in basketball broadcasting, died Monday, the league announced on behalf of his family. Walton, who had a prolonged fight with cancer, was 71. He
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The matchups and schedule for the 2024 N.C. High School Athletic Association baseball and softball state championship series are now set. Six of the eight baseball regional championship series and three of the eight softball regional championship series went to three games. The final regional games were played on Saturday evening. State championships in both
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By WRAL staff The Duke Blue Devils defeated the Missouri Tigers in the third game of the Columbia Super Regional, 4-3, to send the Blue Devils to the Women’s College World Series. This is the Blue Devils’ first appearance in the WCWS. Duke nearly reached the WCWS in 2023 but lost to the Stanford Cardinal
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By ANNE M. PETERSON, AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. — EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sha’Carri Richardson continued her march toward the Paris Olympics on Saturday at the Prefontaine Classic, winning the women’s 100 meters in 10.83 seconds. Kenyan Beatrice Chebet s et a world record in the 10,000 meters at the Pre earlier in the
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Burns trailed East Rutherford by five runs in the third inning, but the Bulldogs rallied to come from behind and win Game 3 of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 2A western regional championship series, 8-5. East Rutherford scored the first five runs of the game, putting the pressure on the reigning state champions. In
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Kings Mountain’s softball team will get a shot at the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A state championship after beating Piedmont in Game 3 of the western regional championship series on Saturday night. Pitcher Madeline Huffman recorded a shutout with nine strikeouts, all while allowing just five hits. Kings Mountain defeated Piedmont 2-0 to win
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MONKEY JUNCTION, N.C. — Either way you sliced it, a “team of destiny” was going to emerge from Game 3 in the 4A East baseball regional final series. Ashley just might be that. For the fourth time this postseason, the Screaming Eagles won in walk-off fashion, this time 1-0 over Cardinal Gibbons on Saturday night.
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The matchups for the 2024 N.C. High School Athletic Association baseball and softball state championship series are now set. Six of the eight baseball regional championship series and three of the eight softball regional championship series went to three games. The final regional games were played on Saturday evening. State championships in both baseball and
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By NC Courage North Carolina FC used a flurry of second-half goals to route Miami FC, 0-4, Saturday night at FIU Soccer Stadium. Evan Conway, Oalex Anderson, Mikey Moldanado, and Rodrigo Da Costa scored to push NCFC to 3-5-4 for 14 points to rise to seventh in the Eastern Conference standings. North Carolina held a
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By STEVE REED, AP Sports Writer CONCORD, N.C. — CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has cooled off and no longer plans to wreck Kyle Busch at the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. But that doesn’t mean he and Busch are back on speaking terms. Stenhouse said he spoke to Busch’s
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