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April 25, 2025
For each week of the 2024 high school football season, HighSchoolOT will release the Starting 22. It lists the best performances from every position across North Carolina. Coaches should send in performance nominations to [email protected] for consideration each week. Now that we are in the playoffs, players can receive a repeat selection if they made
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NEW YORK (AP) — This Thanksgiving, solar storms may produce faint auroras across the northern rim of the United States. Pale auroras may be seen across many northern states Thursday and Friday, but they may be brief and and seeing them will depend on how intense the solar storms get, NOAA meteorologist Mike Bettwy said
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Greenville, N.C. — East Carolina has picked Blake Harrell to be its head football coach. Harrell has served as interim head coach since Oct. 20 and helped the Pirates to a 4-1 record during that time. His promotion came in an announcement from Director of Athletics Jon Gilbert. “We are excited to announce Blake Harrell
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By The Associated Press Duke (8-3, 4-3 ACC) at Wake Forest (4-7, 2-5) When: Saturday, noon ET (ACC Network) BetMGM College Football Odds: Duke by 4 1/2. Series record: Duke leads 60-41-2. What’s at stake? Duke has a shot at nine wins for the second time in three seasons along with winning a fourth road
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The North Carolina Coaches Association has released the rosters for the 2024 East-West All-Star Football Game. Despite the N.C. High School Athletic Association extending its season by a week, the NCCA decided to not move the East-West game off of its Sunday, Dec. 22 date. It will occur the day following the final state championship
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NEW YORK (AP) — Using fossilized feces and vomit samples from Poland, scientists have reconstructed how dinosaurs came to dominate the Earth millions of years ago. Researchers aren’t sure whether dinosaurs’ rise over the course of 30 million years happened because of luck, skill, climate or some combination. But they came away knowing this: “It
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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s leading medical research agency. Trump, in a statement Tuesday evening, said Bhattacharya, a 56-year-old physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, will work in cooperation with
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There were final girls wrestling team-tournament rankings last year, but no preseason rankings. With it being the first year as a sanctioned sport, it was hard to have an idea of who would be among the best in the state. Not this year. Jack Britt begins the girls wrestling season ranked No. 1 in the
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Uwharrie Charter begins the boys wrestling season ranked No. 1 in the HighSchoolOT dual-team rankings. The Eagles return a number of top finishers from last year’s team that won the 1A dual-team title. You can see the all previous final HSOT rankings and all-state teams here. A watch list of top athletes is available for
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalize the world-first law. The major parties backed the bill that would make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for
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