2006 will always be remembered as the year of the Deacon because the run Wake Forest has put together to obtain their Orange Bowl birth opposite Louisville is perhaps the most unlikely in college football history. And yet Jim Grobe’s bunch still wears the Rodney Dangerfield tag of No Respect, as the Deacs will go [...]

Read The Complete Article - Wake Up To Reality – An Essay by Paul Lambeth

The Bengal boys made it 2 in a row and Debbie Jones of Page got her first(PHLFI) title as a head coach when Thursday’s championship games were over at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex.(PHLFI =’s Pizza Hut Little Four Invitational)
Greensboro Day was down 10 at the end of the third quarter but the Bengals came back and bested [...]

Read The Complete Article - GDS and Page RULE Day Three of the Pizza Hut Little Four/Jim Modlin’s NFL “N” Sider Picks

Day Two of the Pizza Hut Little Four Little Basketball Tournament and some shocking news.  The Page Pirates upset the WhirlieGirls of Grimsley Wednesday night and that gives GHS their first loss of the season and it couldn’t come at a more telling time as Page the number 3 seed moves past Grimsley the number 2 seed to face #1 Dudley [...]

Read The Complete Article - Page Shocks WhirlieGirls:Day Two of the Pizza Hut Little Four Tournament/Bill Kimm Leaving 790 the Ball

Tuesday was a success for the Pizza Hut Little Four Tournament.  There was only one upset on Day One and the Southwest Guilford Cowboys pulled it off when they defeated Smith 49-47.  SWG was a #6 seed and Smith was seeded #3.
Elesewhere among the boys we saw Dudley 68-Grimsley 53, Northeast 40-Page 38, Greensboro Day 58-Northwest [...]

Read The Complete Article - Day One from the Pizza Hut Little Four Tournament

Andy and his buddies have this thing where they go out and play every year no matter the weather.  So today as we watch some sports that play in the confines of enclosed domes and coliseums, we have to remember the fun that we can have just playing in all sorts of weather.

Read The Complete Article - Muddy Thanksgiving Football – Our Christmas Present To You

Last week on the picks it went Andy 12-2, Bobby Lashely 11-3, Big Jim Modlin 9-5, and Marshall Brown 8-6….I jumped into the fire last week and did pretty good.  This week we need to get JA Joey the LifeTouch photographer in the mix.
Here’s how it shakes down from Big Jim, with his Gems from [...]

Read The Complete Article - Jim Modlin and others’ NFL “N” Sider Picks/Greensboro College gets the Big One

Last night we saw the Page girls lose for the first time this season falling to Northeast Guilford  51-43 and the Page boys returned the favor knockng off  previously unbeaten NEG 56-52.  The new NEG gym looks great and I like to call it the John Primm Gym.  Mercedes King led the NEG girls to victory with [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford Great Eight Hoops Polls

One of the better features in the Minor League Hockey Fan base is Hans Hornstein’s Hockey Death Pool Updates.  He started this as a lark a few years ago; but, then started getting real info from the teams, leagues and owners in addition to fan info which is often unreliable.  His Death Pool articles have [...]

Read The Complete Article - Hockey News From The Real World

I was at the big game on Tuesday and the Smith Golden Eagles under the direction of Reggie Peace put together a pleasing pre-Christmas cantata, driving home a 70-69 overtime win against the North Forsyth Vikings.  The Eagle girls were also winners and if the N&R records have been correct as of late, this was [...]

Read The Complete Article - Flying with the Eagles

Every single season the NFL continues to become more hyper competitive, the old adage goes that on any given Sunday one team can beat another. However in no other season in memory is the distance between the best and worst teams in this league ever been more finite, especially in the AFC. Except that would [...]

Read The Complete Article - The No Figuring League by Paul Lambeth

We have a few sidebars of what happened over the weekend and we need to send Congrats to David Jackson and Randy Jackson with Appalachian State on winnng their NCAA Division I-AA title for the second straight year.  Coach Jerry Moore and his all-star backfield with RB Kevin Richardson and QB Armanti Edwards deserve a lot [...]

Read The Complete Article - Monday Moaning

On Thursday, Andy Durham sat down with Chapel Hill’s Ben Strong, a Junior Center on Guilford College’s basketball team.
You can here the 28 Minute Interview here. (6.5 mb)
From the Guilford College Website:
Guilford moved to 6-0 for the first time since 1967 with a 77-67 home win over Roanoke Saturday afternoon. Ben Strong scored 14 [...]

Read The Complete Article - Ben Strong – Guilford College Basketball Interview

Hang in there guys the season’s almost over and you are still trying to finish above .500……. This is not Golf, the low scores are not winners.  Ask your wives or girlfriends to pick some games and maybe your overall averages will improve.  Everybody knows women don’t know anything about football.  What ever happened to [...]

Read The Complete Article - Andy Durham encourages NFL “N” Siders

(Greensboro, NC) The Florida Marlins announced Thursday that the 2007 Grasshoppers field staff will feature four new faces, anchored by manager Edwin Rodriguez. The announcement was made by Marlins Vice President of Player Development and Scouting and Assistant General Manager Jim Fleming.
Joining Rodriguez will be hitting coach Anthony Iapoce, pitching coach John Duffy [...]

Read The Complete Article - NEW FACES ABOUND IN THE HOPPERS CLUBHOUSE

Friday night our WPET AM950 broadcast game will be Northeast versus Eastern Guilford at UNCG and we will have updates on Grimsley at Northwest.
                          Boys Hoops Poll
#1) Greensboro Day School(The 8-0 Johnny Thomas-led Bengals have been off this week for exams and they are back in action Friday at North Raleigh Christian)
#2) Dudley(The Panther boys [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford Great Eight HS Basketball Polls

The Grimsley girls saw their hoops record rise to 8-0 as they ran past High Point Central 70-51 on Tuesday night at the Bob Sawyer Gym on the Whirlie campus.
The Black Bison girls never really had a chance, the WhirlieGirls are just too tough as Phil Weaver’s young ladies had 11 players score led by [...]

Read The Complete Article - WhirlieGirls-Bison Boys:Tuesday Night HS Hoops Report

Today, the News & Record again posted another story about the return of Ice Hockey to the Greensboro Coliseum.  If they had only done this much reporting when Greensboro had a team; may be it would not have gone.
But then there were other factors:

The Coliseum’s redirection of nearly half a million dollars in advertising from [...]

Read The Complete Article - News & Record Coverage of Hockey

City Councilman Sandy Carmany reports: Matt Brown is optimistic there will be an official announcement about ice hockey in the coliseum sometime in early January.
The complete report can be found on her blog.

Read The Complete Article - January: The ECHL Decision To Come To Greensboro?

Local high school hoops, the MMA/UFC on CBS’ 60 Minutes, and Appalachian State headed to the title game for a second straight year.
The greensborosports.com crew was at Page on Friday night and we saw the Pirate girls remain unbeaten with a 58-46 win over the Southeast Guilford Falcons.  SEG was in front 27-20 at the [...]

Read The Complete Article - This, That, and the Other

Right now, if the cards play out right, the Winston-Salem Warthogs will start the 2008 Season from the new stadium at the corner of Broad and First, near Peters Creek Parkway and I-40.
Details from the Business Journal.

Read The Complete Article - Winston-Salem finally gets moving on their New Baseball Stadium