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Buffalo Bills teammate Joe DeLamielleure details last conversation with O.J. Simpson
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...
Steph Curry is rooting for NC State due to love for Cinderellas and a family connection
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 »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/charlotte-hornets/article287036345.html#storylink=rss
Signing Clowney shows progress for a Carolina Panthers team starting to look promising
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 ...
‘We’ve got 5 games left’: UNC wears out Wagner, but Michigan State looms on Saturday
The 100th men’s NCAA Tournament game ever played in Charlotte tipped off Thursday afternoon, with a national TV audience, 18,223 fans and all the attendant hoopla of March Madness. And … Clic...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/article286795465.html#storylink=rss
New Charlotte Hornets GM wants to make team the NBA’s ‘premier franchise.’ Well ...
The Charlotte Hornets held a 25-minute news conference Wednesday to introduce Jeff Peterson, the new head of their basketball operations. In those 25 minutes, the phrase “premier franchise” �...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/charlotte-hornets/article286281040.html#storylink=rss
Shawn Wheeler — the former Charlotte Checker and Black hockey pioneer — gets his due
During a recent weekend in Georgia that served as a moment of triumph for Shawn Wheeler, the former Charlotte Checkers hockey star, he received two things: An induction, and an … Click to Conti...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nhl/charlotte-checkers/article285380227.html#storylink=rss
William Byron grew up in Charlotte. Now he has won NASCAR’s biggest race, the Daytona 500
A long time ago in Charlotte, well before William Byron became the 2024 Daytona 500 champion, he was just a kid who went trick-or-treating on Halloween. Since he knew where … Click to Continue ...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nascar-auto-racing/article285642932.html#storylink=rss
The Charlotte Hornets blew up most of their team in 2 weeks. Will it make a difference?
The Charlotte Hornets spent the final hours before the trade deadline scorching the earth around their current team. And given that team is currently 10-40 and one of the worst … Click to Conti...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/charlotte-hornets/article285253687.html#storylink=rss
Can the Charlotte 49ers make NCAA tourney for 1st time since 2005? They have a real shot
One of the great pleasures in sports is standing inside a sold-out basketball gym, with the home team sprinting out on a big run and the crowd not just riding … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college/charlotte-49ers/article284784581.html#storylink=rss
Ron Rivera has some advice for new coach Dave Canales — and for the Panthers’ fan base
Ron Rivera, the winningest head coach in the history of the Carolina Panthers, has some advice for new head coach Dave Canales. But before we get to that, the coach … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article284724866.html#storylink=rss
The Panthers have their coach in Canales. Now it’s time for Tepper to take a back seat
Dave Canales, who has never been a head coach before at any level, just got the top job with the Carolina Panthers. And there are a lot of things to … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article284681346.html#storylink=rss
When Charlotte Hornets traded Terry Rozier to Miami Heat, there was one clear winner
Terry Rozier deserved better, and on Monday he got it. A Charlotte Hornets stalwart since 2019, Rozier was traded to the Miami Heat for a future first-round draft pick, some … Click to Continue...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article284582415.html#storylink=rss
Dan Morgan has been hired as Panthers GM. Should Tepper have hired an outsider instead?
Dan Morgan, the new guy in charge of the Carolina Panthers’ personnel, just performed his first near-miraculous maneuver. He’s going to need to perform a second one to make this … Click to ...
There was only one Victor in Charlotte on Friday night, and it wasn’t Wembanyama
Victor Wembanyama stiffed the Charlotte Hornets again Friday night. Maybe that’s too harsh a way to put it. But Wembanyama is the gift to the NBA that keeps on not … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article284313748.html#storylink=rss
Former Panther Rae Carruth is turning 50. An update on the murder that rocked Charlotte
Rae Carruth, the former Carolina Panther who became a convicted felon and served nearly 19 years in prison, turns 50 years old Saturday. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Carruth, the … Click to Con...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article284310813.html#storylink=rss
Tepper just fired Scott Fitterer as Carolina Panthers GM. There’s one simple reason why
Scott Fitterer, the Carolina Panthers general manager, got fired Monday morning. The only real surprise was that it took so long. Although head coaches and GMs are often given pink … Click to C...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article283959303.html#storylink=rss
Carolina Panthers just had a record-breaking season — in all the worst possible ways
The Carolina Panthers did something they’ve never done before in the last game of an awful NFL season: They got shut out for the second week in a row. Carolina’s … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article283665068.html#storylink=rss
Inside the Carolina Panthers’ disastrous season: What went wrong, and what comes next
Nobody at Bank of America Stadium expected it to be nearly this bad. The Carolina Panthers’ nightmarish season comes to a merciful close Sunday, when the team with an NFL-worst … Click to Con...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article283665053.html#storylink=rss
NFL fines Panthers owner David Tepper $300K. But will he take the punishment to heart?
Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper just bought the most expensive drink in NFL history. What he needs to do now is actually learn something from it. The NFL fined Tepper … Click to Continue �...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article283762058.html#storylink=rss
Panthers owner David Tepper needs someone to tell him some hard truths. I’ll volunteer
Does anyone ever tell David Tepper what a cartoonish villain of a sports owner he has turned himself into? Does anyone in the Carolina Panthers’ offices ever say, “Hey, Dave, … Click to Con...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article283704038.html#storylink=rss
Bryce Young and Panthers just had their worst game of 2023, and that’s saying something
The Carolina Panthers gave 2023 one final stinker to remember them by Sunday in a 26-0 road loss to Jacksonville. It was the first time the Panthers (2-14) had been … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article283484463.html#storylink=rss
Defense-minded UNC, playing in its home away from home, overwhelms Oklahoma in Charlotte
A Christmastime dose of the Queen City was all it took to make North Carolina feel like kings again. The Tar Heels, who had lost two straight games, came to … Click to Continue »
The real story of how a Davidson football player went viral with his fake NFL Draft post
Before J.J. Watt and Drew Brees discovered him, before he thanked Oprah Winfrey and Winston Churchill, before his social media post declaring himself eligible for the 2024 NFL Draft was … Click...
Wait, Dean Smith is coaching in North Carolina again? At Charlotte FC, you bet he is
There were two elephants in the room Monday along with new Charlotte FC head coach Dean Smith, who was introduced as the local Major League Soccer team’s head man. He … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/charlotte-fc/article283128158.html#storylink=rss
A rare Panthers win: In the rain, Bryce Young and Carolina made all the big plays late
In an ugly game played in unpleasant conditions Sunday, the Carolina Panthers pulled off a victory that still felt beautiful to the players who won it and the hardy souls … Click to Continue »...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article282888143.html#storylink=rss
Rae Carruth case: After murderous hitman dies in prison, how does victim’s mother feel?
If the man who murdered your daughter later dies in prison, how would you feel about it? Saundra Adams, whose pregnant daughter Cherica Adams was killed in 1999 in one … Click to Continue »
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article282914993.html#storylink=rss
Hitman who killed the pregnant girlfriend of former Panther Rae Carruth dies in prison
Van Brett Watkins, the hitman who always maintained he was hired by former Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth to commit one of Charlotte’s most notorious crimes, has died in a … Click to ...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article282906678.html#storylink=rss
App State icon Armanti Edwards to appear Saturday at book signing for ‘Sports Legends’
Armanti Edwards, who starred for Appalachian State as one of the best college quarterbacks to ever play in the Carolinas, is scheduled to appear at a book signing at Audi … Click to Continue »...
Carolina Panthers’ new coaching staff, best player both hurt the team in Tampa Bay loss
The Panthers’ newly revamped coaching staff and the team’s best player both let the team down on Sunday, as Carolina lost, 21-18, to Tampa Bay. Carolina edge rusher Brian Burns … Click to C...
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article282342363.html#storylink=rss
ACC’s Jim Phillips on FSU-Louisville football, Charlotte’s shot at basketball tourney
Jim Phillips has a sweeping view from his office on the 12th floor of the Legacy Union’s Bank of America tower, a view that includes Bank of America Stadium itself. … Click to Continue »