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April 26, 2025
By Brian Murphy, WRAL Duke’s Cooper Flagg is headed to the NBA. Flagg, the ACC Player of the Year and consensus national player of the year, is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft. The do-it-all freshman forward led Duke to the ACC regular-season title and the Final Four. He missed
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By AARON BEARD, AP Sports Writer RALEIGH, N.C. — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes just wanted to be healthy going into the Stanley Cup Playoffs, even as it meant resting key players and stumbling down the stretch of the regular season. The first payoff came Sunday. Logan Stankoven scored two second-period goals in
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By Durham Bulls DURHAM, NC – Bulls catcher Tres Barrera blasted a walk-off home run in the ninth inning to give Durham a 4-3 victory over the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders on Sunday evening at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Bulls center fielder Tristan Peters reached base three times with two hits, including his first home run of
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By CLIFF BRUNT, AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Memphis Grizzlies 131-80 in Game 1 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series on Sunday, the fifth-biggest margin of victory in NBA postseason history. The 51-point margin was seven points shy of the record and was
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By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Justin Thomas had one more hurdle to prove his game was back where he felt it belonged, and he cleared it Sunday in the RBC Heritage with the longest putt he ever made to win. Walking up to
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In the month of April, HSOT Insiders will receive daily articles to preview the 2025 high school football season in North Carolina. Today, we have a breakdown of the 6A N.C. High School Athletic Association returning quarterbacks. Since players often don’t play the same number of games, we break our stats down into averages. For
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The fifth-annual HighSchoolOT boys basketball all-state team features 27 players making at least a second appearance on the team, including two three-time first-team selections (Reidsville’s Dionte Neal and Christ School’s Zymicah Wilkins). There is a first, second, and third team with 15 players each followed by an Honorable Mention list of 30 players. Only players
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The fifth-annual HighSchoolOT girls basketball all-state team features 29 players making at least a second appearance on the team, including two four-time selections (Watauga’s Kate Sears and Bishop McGuinness’ Adelaide Jernigan). There is a first, second, and third team with 15 players each followed by an Honorable Mention list of 30 players. Only players whose
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By NC Courage communications CARY, N.C. (April 19, 2025) — The North Carolina Courage set a top-10 regular season attendance for the fifth consecutive match Saturday night, with 7,049 fans packing First Horizon Stadium as the Courage fell, 1-0, against Bay FC. The attendance total ranks as the ninth-highest in club history. Former Courage midfielder
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In the month of April, HSOT Insiders will receive daily articles to preview the 2025 high school football season in North Carolina. Today, we have a breakdown of the 7A N.C. High School Athletic Association returning defensive playmakers. We don’t cover returning tackle leaders, since teams have very different definitions of what constitutes a tackle
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