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December 28, 2024
By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports A pair of future Triangle athletes received the highest high school athletics honor in the nation. NC State cross country commit Sadie Engelhardt and Duke basketball’s Cooper Flagg were named the 2023-24 Gatorade Best Female and Male Players of the Year on Thursday night at the 2024 ESPYs. Former Gatorade
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Jacob Lopez worked six innings leading to a three-hit shutout, while Bob Seymour homered in his third straight game as the Durham Bulls claimed their fifth straight win, 3-0 over the Charlotte Knights on Thursday night at Truist Field. Lopez (W, 3-4), coming off of a career-high 11 strikeout performance on Friday, permitted just one
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By The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. — TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Monte Kiffin, the longtime NFL and college assistant coach whose Tampa Bay defenses routinely ranked among the league’s best, died Thursday. He was 84. One of the architects of the ultra successful Tampa 2 defensive scheme, Kiffin spent 13 seasons as defensive coordinator of
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By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports In the middle of a hot Wednesday afternoon in Morrisville, Asif Parekh stands under a pavilion doing what he loves to do: watch cricket. “We eat, sleep, work, and on the weekend we play cricket, that’s the life, you know?” Parekh laughed. In partnership with Major League Cricket, the town
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States signed a memorandum with several of the world’s biggest social media companies on Thursday aimed at preventing the use of their platforms for the distribution of synthetic drugs. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a signing ceremony that “t echnology companies have a critical role to play in both
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to General Motors, Stellantis and other carmakers to help restart or expand electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly sites in eight states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. The Energy Department will issue grants totaling $1.7 billion to create or
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GRAFTON, Mass. (AP) — When two octogenarian buddies named Nick discovered that ChatGPT might be stealing and repurposing a lifetime of their work, they tapped a son-in-law to sue the companies behind the artificial intelligence chatbot. Veteran journalists Nicholas Gage, 84, and Nicholas Basbanes, 81, who live near each other in the same Massachusetts town,
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Heels4Life, North Carolina’s collective for name, image and likeness for the Tar Heels’ football program, is closing. And a new all-sports collective – Old Well Management – will begin operations on Aug. 1. Heels4Life will be closing over the next week and all accounts, subscriptions and data from its platform will be
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Beginning next season, the indirect free position will be eliminated in high school girls lacrosse when a minor foul is committed by the defense in the 12-meter fan. Now, the player who is fouled will be allowed to shoot from a free position on the 12-meter fan. This revision to Rule 9-1 PENALTIES was one
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a new report by the United Nations said Thursday. The report — released on World Population Day — says the global population is then expected
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