Drake Maye is almost done with one of the weirdest parts of every high-profile football player’s career — the long and somewhat awkward run-up to the NFL Draft. By Thursday … Click to Conti...
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When Tripp Tracy was asked to speak at a meeting of the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle last week, he naturally invited the Carolina Hurricanes’ two other Harvard Men … Click to Continu...
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Carolina Hurricanes’ comeback from three goals down to win Game 2 on Monday was how unexceptional it was. They have done this kind … Click to Conti...
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To one pair of eyes, watching from the owner’s box, this looked all too familiar. In his time with the Carolina Hurricanes, Eric Staal was part of any number of … Click to Continue »
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It may say something about the relative strengths and expectations of the teams involved that the Carolina Hurricanes spent Sunday figuring out how they can play better and the New … Click to C...
There was no guarantee, some five months ago, when he was shut down to deal with a frightening and unexpected blood-clotting issue, that Frederik Andersen would be around and available … Click ...
It feels like an inviolable rule of the postseason that the Carolina Hurricanes so rarely get to explore new territory, and so often keep running into the same people in … Click to Continue »
It was about a month ago, Joe DeLamielleure said, when he got a call about his former Buffalo Bills teammate O.J. Simpson. Simpson’s health was deteriorating. J.D. Hill, another former … Clic...
Faced with epochal change and a barrage of lawsuits, the NCAA needs to find a win somewhere, anywhere. “We need to put some points on the board,” as NCAA president … Click to Continue »
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For the second year in a row, the ACC was not represented on the final Monday of the college basketball season, despite confounding all expectations in the postseason. Not all … Click to Contin...
The world of college basketball kept spinning Sunday. Connecticut and Purdue practiced in an emptied State Farm Stadium ahead of Monday night’s title game. N.C. State spent the day flying … C...
The end was coming at some point. It was always out there, lurking in the shadows, occasionally showing its face but mostly kept at bay, game after game after game. … Click to Continue »
A butterfly flaps its wings in Hong Kong. A strand of DNA mutates and replicates and replicates. Ninety-two million miles from earth, the sun spits out a gout of radiation. … Click to Continue ...
So much of N.C. State’s run through the postseason defied the imaginable, so it’s fair to say that no one three weeks ago would have expected a Breon Pass heat-check … Click to Continue »
The folks at the ice-cream place next to the arena in Dallas, a prominent national chain, didn’t believe Chris Zupko. It’s not that hard to blame them, really. This guy … Click to Continue ...
In the wake of N.C. State’s two wins in Pittsburgh, someone texted Michael O’Connell about going to the “second weekend” of the NCAA tournament, and that specific phrase jogged a … Clic...
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There were no signs of a change in the morning shootaround at what used to be called the Carrier Dome, or during warmups before N.C. State played at Syracuse. So … Click to Continue »
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Debbie Yow wasn’t in Portland on Sunday. Nor was she in Dallas. She was at home, with her husband, watching on television, but her presence was felt in both places. … Click to Continue »
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Kevin Keatts paused at the top of the ladder. There could have been any number of things going through his mind as he turned away from the rim to face … Click to Continue »
Every March, Steph Curry remembers. And sometimes, during March Madness, he has a strong sense of déjà vu. Such is the case this year, Curry said Friday night, as he … Click to Continue »
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L.J. Cryer dribbled into the heart of Duke’s defense. He looked around for help that didn’t come. He never saw Tyrese Proctor coming. Proctor stole the ball right out of … Click to Continue...
And here we are. If you followed this ACC basketball season to its logical conclusion, of course you’d end up with Duke and N.C. State in a steel-cage death match … Click to Continue »
The wave hasn’t broken yet. N.C. State is crouched in the tube, swept along by powerful forces it might not fully understand but will happily enjoy as long as they … Click to Continue »
It took almost a year for Mark Mitchell to go back and re-watch a game he didn’t even play. It was that hard. Mitchell missed Duke’s second-round loss to Tennessee … Click to Continue »
When Gary Hahn announced, in October, that this would be his 34th and final season broadcasting N.C. State football and men’s basketball games, he had long resigned himself to the … Click to ...
The Carolina Panthers still have hundreds of miles to go. But I’m beginning to think that the compass needle is slowly moving toward north at Bank of America Stadium. The … Click to Continue ...
Kevin Keatts warned D.J. Burns to be nice, because he knew they were venturing into dangerous territory, up there in the bright lights, feeling good about themselves. In the wake … Click to Con...
If you were the type to gamble on college basketball — and you really shouldn’t, unless it’s with someone else’s money — then it seems a safe bet that North … Click to Continue »
In the week leading up to the trade deadline, the Carolina Hurricanes poked around on Elias Pettersson and were looking at several potential moves. Jake Guentzel was just one of … Click to Cont...
Regular as turning our clocks forward in March, the ACC has once again gone and confounded its increasing number of critics by outperforming expectations in the NCAA tournament. You can … Click...
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