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February 7, 2025
By LARRY LAGE, AP Sports Writer ANN ARBOR, Mich. — ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The NCAA announced a four-year, show-cause order for former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh on Wednesday for impermissible contact with recruits and players during the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively banning him from college athletics until August 2028. The NCAA said Harbaugh, who
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By Maya Waid, WRAL Sports contributor As the U.S. women’s national soccer team prepares for its final match on Saturday, UNC alumna Crystal Dunn aims to lead her team to gold. It will be Dunn’s third appearance at the Olympics after helping the USWNT earn bronze at the 2020 Tokyo games. Dunn has 20 consecutive
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By Anna Laible and Maya Waid, WRAL Sports contributors Andrew Capobianco finished 15th overall in the 3m springboard on Wednesday, ending his Olympic run. The Holly Springs native scored 66.30 on each of his first two dives, Capobianco posted a 71.75 on a reverse 3 ½ somersaults dive to put himself in 12th place at
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The first N.C. High School Athletic Association girls cross country championship was held in 1980, and the there have been a few of changes since then. There was only one team champion until 1986, when it went to three classes: 4A, 3A, and 1A/2A. 1A and 2A were split apart in 1997, giving the NCHSAA
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By JOSH DUBOW, AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. — SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The debate about whether the NFL will expand the regular season once again seems to have been resolved and now it’s a matter of how soon the league adds an 18th game. Commissioner Roger Goodell has talked openly about
READ MORENEW YORK (AP) — Gone is the bullhorn. Instead, New York City emergency management officials have turned high-tech, using drones to warn residents about potential threatening weather. With a buzzing sound in the background, a drone equipped with a loudspeaker flies over homes warning people who live in basement or ground-floor apartments about impending heavy
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The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found, reflecting the lengths that Democratic-controlled states went to expand access. A major reason for the increase is that some Democratic-controlled states
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, according to researchers who warned that the reef likely won’t survive if planetary warming isn’t stopped. During that time, between 2016 and 2024, the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem and
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HighSchoolOT is compiling a list of high school football scrimmages throughout North Carolina as teams prepare for the 2024 season. The scrimmages are listed in date order. The impending Tropical Storm Debby has caused many scrimmages originally scheduled for Friday, Aug. 9 to shift to a day next week. This page will continue to update
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Patton High School will not field a varsity football team during the 2024-25 school year. The Burke County school, which is on its third head coach in as many years, cited a lack of participation from older players as the reason behind the decision. The Panthers will still roll out a JV team, which will
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