The Grimsley Whirlies baseball team got their season off to a smashing start on Tuesday afternoon with an 11-2 victory over Southwestern Randolph.
Alan Ashkinazy’s squad jumped on SWR early and the Cougars found themselves down 6-0 after only three complete innings.
Clint Moore got the start on the mound for GHS and he pitched well going [...]

Read The Complete Article - Whirlies work over Cougars

We gave you our boys greensborosports.com top five HS basketball players last week and now we have our girls top five for 2006/2007.  This will be the first girls all-star team announced in the area.
Topping the list are Trumae Lucas and Nicole Hargraves of Grimsley, Helen Terry of Dudley, Mercedes King of Northeast Guilford, and Jasmine Gill [...]

Read The Complete Article - Ladies First:The List

The high school basketball playoffs are complete and after a very busy weekend the warriors are moving on while many teams are hanging up their tights and turning in their towels.
The high schools and the colleges were going at it on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and let’s take a look at what transpired in the games involving our local [...]

Read The Complete Article - The Weekend Warriors

The girls HS hoops made it through the second round on Thursday evening and the big shocker was the Dudley girls taking apart Burlington Williams.  You never know which Dudley team will show up and the real deal was in Burlington last night.  At times the Dudley girls look like they are washed up and [...]

Read The Complete Article - HS Hoops:The Girls are turning some heads

Get up early and you could go home with a 1926 Ford Model-T this Saturday.
Individual tickets for the 2007 Grasshopper Season gone on sale Saturday, February 24, 2007.
In addition to tickets, the Grasshoppers are cleaning out the store, attic, garage and everything else.  Gates open at 7AM.
Also, auditions for the National Anthem will be held.
Panera [...]

Read The Complete Article - For Sale: 1926 Model-T – Grasshoppers Yard Sale

Edwin Rodriguez
Andy Durham interviewed Edwin Rodriguez, the Grasshoppers new field manager for the 2007 season today (2/22/07) during a pre-season visit to First Horizon Park.
Entering his fourth season in the Marlins organization, Edwin spent the past two seasons as the manager for the rookie-level Gulf Coast Marlins, guiding them to an overall 53-54 record. [...]

Read The Complete Article - Grasshoppers Edwin Rodriguez Interview by Andy Durham

Mr. Durham called it for you here on Wednesday morning, the Tar Heels would beat the Wolfpack and there would be no looking back.  Andy Durham called it for you not Woody Durham and either way all you have to do is come to greensborosports.com and you can find out who is going to win [...]

Read The Complete Article - N.C. State Lowe on fuel-Heels have plenty of get up and go

We don’t have many boys teams left and the girls go at it in the playoffs again tonight.  Great win for Northeast Guilford over Burlington Williams on Wednesday and what about High Point Central going out in round two and how do you do says High Point Andrews to Ragsdale. 
Again there are only three things [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford Great Eight Basketball Polls

The Tar Heels host the Wolfpack in Chapel Hill this evening and what do you think the outcome will be?  N.C. State beat the Heels in the first meeting over in Raleigh and now it’s time for the pay-back to the Wolfpack.
The Heels surely have the better overall talent but can the Pack play on heart [...]

Read The Complete Article - North Carolina will kill N.C. State tonight, right? What do you think?

The Basketball Beat was sounding loudly on Tuesday evening and almost all the local girls teams came out on top and were winners for at leat one more night.  The Grimsley girls are the area’s highest ranked team and they hit the 26-1 mark for the season after they stomped East Rowan at the Bob [...]

Read The Complete Article - The Basketball Beat Goes On

The baskeball season has entered the stretch run and for the high schools it’s do or die and nice try, see you next year.  For the colleges, they are winding down the regular season and jockeying for conference tournament position and the NCAA bids.
Monday night I rode the basketball beat to the street and hit Lincoln and [...]

Read The Complete Article - Hoops Heaven is Here

Saturday February 17th. I went along as guest of Coach Tom Palumbo to attend the Guilford College – Emory and Henry basketball game.
The game was designated “A white out” to honor the 6 seniors on the team-fans were encouraged to wear “all white” and they did-face paint and all!! The normal crew that does the [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford College – Emory and Henry Roadtrip with Jim Modlin

The Basketball Beat becomes the Sports Machine as the hoops got into full swing over the past weekend.  George Michael shut down his Sports Machine, so we will keep it running at greensborosports.com.  The HS hoops grabbed the spotlight as the Dudley Panthers continued their dominance of the the local 3-A boys basketball with their 10 point [...]

Read The Complete Article - The Sports Machine:HS Hoops Roundup,a Big Four sweep and Jan Pritchett steals Forest Valley Title

By: Bruce Bullington, GreensboroSports.com staff writer
We got a lot of good responses to our first poker column. There are a lot more people in the area playing poker than either Bill Frist or the local ALE office would like.
One of the emails we received covered a scenario all of us have been in one time [...]

Read The Complete Article - Bullington: Shuffle Up and Deal – Vol. II

Pick your Top 5 finishers for Sunday’s race at Daytona and WIN a meal from Libby Hill Seafood and Jeff Summey on Summit Avenue. 
The person with most drivers in the Top 5 at the Daytona 500 is the WINNER.  First come 1st served, don’t duplicate other people’s picks unless you want to end up splitting [...]

Read The Complete Article - Greensborosports.com and NASCAR’s Top 5 Fight for the Finish

Several important high school basketball championships will be determined tonight and greensborosports.com will be out in full force covering these tournaments.
The biggest event will take place at the John Primm Gym on Hicone Road.  This is the home of the Northeast Guilford Rams and they will be hosting the Dudley Panthers in both the girls [...]

Read The Complete Article - Championship Friday

Andy Durham sits down with Bruce Mitchell – educator, writer and all around good guy.  The conversation runs the course of things happening around the ACC, the Wrestlin’ scene and just about everything else.  This week’s audio show runs 70 minutes.  Enjoy.

Read The Complete Article - Bruce Mitchell – ACC, WWE & the Beef Burger

Paul Lambeth got us the scoop on the Guilford College Quakers and their win on Wednesday night and I was tracking the ACC teams on radio in between my interview with Duke Blue Devil super-fan Bruce Mitchell.
Wake Forest claimed the most exciting victory with Mike Durm’s put back of a Kyle Visser miss to win [...]

Read The Complete Article - The ACC Today

Boys High School Poll:#1)Greensboro Day School(28-1, the Bengals beat Calvary Baptist on Monday 71-47 with Johnny Thomas leading the way with 21 and now GDS travels to High Point Wesleyan on Friday night)
#2)High Point Central(22-2, the Bison defeated North Forsyth last Friday night 67-65 with balanced scoring and now HPC will host the Page Pirates in the [...]

Read The Complete Article - The Guilford Great Eight Basketball Polls

On senior night in Reagan-Brown Field House on the historic Guilford College campus, Jordan Snipes led all scorers with 32 points to go with 10 rebounds and Ben Strong added 18 as the Quakers hit the twenty win plateau for the first time since 1979 as Guilford wore down visiting Washington & Lee 95-77. Guilford [...]

Read The Complete Article - Resugent Quakers Roll Past W&L 95-77