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February 7, 2025
By KEN POWTAK, Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Drake Maye, the third overall pick in the 2024 draft, played one series in his debut with New England on Thursday night, and the Patriots played their first game in 24 years without Bill Belichick as coach, beating the Carolina Panthers 17-3 in
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By STEVE MEGARGEE, AP Sports Writer The first week of joint practices at NFL training camps included one player getting carted off the field and two teams getting fined $200,000 each for excessive fighting. Those events have lent credence to the notion that joint practice sessions don’t need to last longer than one day, an
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By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer PARIS — PARIS (AP) — Down by 11 in the fourth quarter, against what looked like overwhelming odds, the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team got a spark. Six points in two seconds. Kevin Durant and Devin Booker provided that wild sequence to start the comeback, Stephen Curry had a
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By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM, AP Sports Writers SAINT-DENIS, France — SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The first sign of trouble Thursday night came when Noah Lyles started rounding the curve in the Olympic final of the 200 meters — the sprint that has always been his best race. Normally at the curve, Lyles starts
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By KYLE HIGHTOWER, AP Sports Writer PARIS — PARIS (AP) — With blue, white and red flags waving in the stands and cheers blaring around them, France’s players took in the moment. Matthew Strazel erupted in dance. Evan Fournier ripped his jersey off and skipped around. Later, the team gathered in a circle at center
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Three people have now died in a listeria food poisoning outbreak linked to Boar’s Head deli meats, federal food safety officials announced Thursday, and the overall number of people sickened rose to 43. The additional death happened in Virginia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a news release Thursday. The other two
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HighSchoolOT is previewing the upcoming boys soccer season with its annual watch list. This year’s watch list features 25 names from each of North Carolina’s six area codes. To get ready for the season, also visit the links below from our ongoing boys soccer coverage. The players are listed by their team’s alphabetical order with
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By Steven Schlink, WRAL Sports contritbutor Three members of the Team USA women’s soccer team addressed the media during a press conference Thursday, discussing their preparation and mindset ahead of their upcoming gold medal match. Sophia Smith emphasized the team’s commitment to maintaining a high standard of performance. “This team has always had a standard
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is wrestling over how and when to bring two astronauts back from the International Space Station, after repeatedly delaying their return aboard Boeing’s troubled capsule. Do they take a chance and send them home soon in Boeing’s Starliner? Or wait and bring them back next year with SpaceX? Butch
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By Emma Hall, WRAL Sports contributor North Carolina State University Head Swimming Coach Braden Holloway headed to the Olympics for the first time this year as an assistant coach with Team USA. His Olympic experience started with a training camp in Cary where he got to collaborate with coaches and work with different athletes. Team
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