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April 28, 2025
Our prediction for this Europa Conference League match: Dudelange Atletic Escaldes Dudelange will be aiming to clinch their spot in the Conference League second qualifying round when they welcome Atletic Escaldes to their Stade Jos Nosbaum on Thursday evening. Dudelange defeated Atletic Escaldes 1-0 in the first leg thanks to Filip Bojic’s goal and they
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Fort Worth, Texas — UNC junior Vance Honeycutt was selected 22nd overall by the Baltimore Orioles in the first round of the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft on Sunday. Honeycutt is the first Tar Heel to be drafted in the first round since Aaron Sabato was selected 27th overall by the Minnesota Twins in 2020.
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Natalie Portman starring in her first TV series in “Lady in the Lake” for Apple TV+ and Roland Emmerich’s gladiator series “Those About to Die” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’
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Four poultry workers in Colorado have been diagnosed with bird flu, health officials confirmed Sunday. The new cases bring the U.S. total to nine since the first human case of the current outbreak was detected in 2022, also in a Colorado poultry worker. Eight of the nine were reported this year. Their illnesses were relatively
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By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer FORT WORTH, Texas — FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Travis Bazzana feels like he represents an entire country, not just a college. Cleveland selected the Australian second baseman on Sunday night with the No. 1 pick in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft, and three players from Wake Forest were
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A number of roster changes for the East-West All-Star Basketball Games have been announced by the N.C. Coaches Association. There have been three changes to the girls rosters and six changes to the boys rosters. On the girls side, Laynie Smith of Chapel Hill and Zamareya Jones of North Pitt have dropped out of the
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Some of the players on the field for the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association East-West All-Star Soccer games on Tuesday will be different than previously announced. The NCCA announced on Sunday evening that five players have dropped from the game, and some of them will not be replaced. Only one girls soccer player will not participate
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Former Salisbury two-sport star and UNC junior Vance Honeycutt has been selected with the 22nd overall pick in the MLB Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. Honeycutt achieved notoriety nationwide with clutch hits to help the Tar Heels reach Omaha. He’s also the Tar Heels’ all-time leading home-run hitter (65), finishing his college career with 76 stolen
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By STEVE DOUGLAS, AP Sports Writer BERLIN — BERLIN (AP) — Spain is the king of European soccer for a record fourth time. For England, it’s another agonizing near-miss in the team’s decades-long tale of underachievement. Completing a tournament the team dominated from start to finish, Spain beat England 2-1 in the European Championship final
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WASHINGTON (AP) — One Monday morning in May, I woke up and grabbed my cell phone to read the news and scroll through memes. But it was out of cell service. I couldn’t make calls or texts. That, though, turned out to be the least of my problems. Using my home Wi-Fi connection, I checked
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