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January 8, 2025
By Brian Murphy, WRAL North Carolina’s Mack Brown is the oldest head coach in college football. And, he says, opposing coaches have made his age an issue since he returned to the sidelines in Chapel Hill in 2019. Brown, who turns 73 on Aug. 27, has tried to diffuse the conversation around his age by
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By Pat Welter Future scholars will surely detect a precipitous dip in productivity from the male subset circa the week July 19, 2024. Some will argue the decline started a few days earlier on the 16th, EA Sports College Football 25’s early access release date. “I have no idea,” NC State head coach Dave Doeren
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HighSchoolOT is aiming to interview as many head football coaches as possible ahead of the 2024 season. The following is a collection of all of the video interviews that have been completed so far. Every coach from the N.C. High School Athletic Association and N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association is invited on. Head coaches can
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood’s video game performers announced they would go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections. The strike — the second for video game voice actors and motion capture performers
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A walrus calf seemingly left behind by her herd near Alaska’s northernmost city is alert and “sassy” as she receives care at a nonprofit wildlife response center hundreds of miles away following her recent rescue, a center spokesperson said Thursday. Alaska SeaLife Center spokesperson Kaiti Grant said the nearly 165-pound (75-kilogram),
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A North Korean military intelligence operative has been indicted in a conspiracy to hack into American health care providers, NASA, U.S. military bases and international entities, stealing sensitive information and installing ransomware to fund more attacks, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The indictment of Rim Jong Hyok by a grand jury
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One of North Carolina’s top 2025 girls basketball prospects is officially off the board. Seaforth High School’s Gabby White announced her commitment to the University of Virginia via social media on Thursday afternoon. This past season, White led the Hawks in scoring with an average of 17.2 PPG. She added 8.8 rebounds, 2.8 assists, and
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The signatures collected by volunteers for an Arkansas abortion-rights measure would fall short of the number needed to qualify for the ballot if those are the only ones counted, according to an initial tally from election officials filed Thursday with the state Supreme Court. The filing from the secretary of
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The N.C. Coaches Association has released the names of the coaches who will lead teams in the 2025 East-West All-Star Games and the Carolinas Classic. The Carolinas Classic, which features some of North Carolina’s top senior boys & girls basketball players and their counterparts from South Carolina, will be played in March 2025, though an
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By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatfomr producer The Carolina Panthers signed wide receiver Deven Thompkins, the team announced Thursday on its website. Thompkins, 24, was undrafted out of Utah State. He spent the last two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he was with Dave Canales for the 2023 season and much of the
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