Here are the numbers that they will use in the football playoff seeding for the 4-AA thru the 2-A’s with our Guilford County schools listed.
4-A’s(with the first five schools listed being the 5 largest schools by enrollment/attendance in the state:
MYERS PARK HIGH 2,977
HOPEWELL HIGH 2,757
INDEPENDENCE HIGH 2,744
NORTHWEST GUILFORD HIGH 2,659
WAKEFIELD HIGH 2,602
PAGE HIGH 1,958
GRIMSLEY HIGH [...]

Read The Complete Article - New football playoff numbers from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association

We have some changes this week with Wake Forest, Elon, and NC State playing hot ball, Guilford and Greensboro College hitting the skids and Appalachian barely escaping a very rough town, Greenville, S.C., with victory over Furman.
Here’s what the faithful have been waiting for:
#1)Wake Forest(6-2) LW1-destroyed North Carolina 37-10 and the Demon Deacons team-speed is [...]

Read The Complete Article - State-wide College football Top Ten

And a good shot it is with Soccer returning to the Gate City in a big way right after the 2008 elections. It looks like another Bush might be up for President again.(Marc Bush) Here’s today’s good news from Demp Bradford and the Greensboro Sports Commission.
Greensboro to Host 2008 NCAA Division III Men’s [...]

Read The Complete Article - Tournament Town gets another shot in the arm, leg and foot

You may have heard about it or seen it on TV, Ben got the YouTube clip of this weekend’s crazy lateral play.

Read The Complete Article - How Many Laterals in ONE Play

Despite being outplayed for most of the evening Grimsley got past East Forsyth 35-21 to clinch 2nd place in the Metro 4-A. Zach Maynard threw for 2 TD passes and ran for another to pace the Whirlies offense and the Grimsley defense forced three fourth quarter interceptions to stymie the Eagles efforts to pull the [...]

Read The Complete Article - Whirlies survive East Forsyth’s upset bid 35-21

We went 8-2 on our picks and almost saw one major upset on Monday night when Western Alamance, the #1 ranked 3-A team in the state, had to battle back in the 4th quarter to tie Dudley at 7-7 and then the Warriors went on to win in Overtime 14-7 with one of the state’s [...]

Read The Complete Article - High School football Tuesday morning Rewind

this story in today’s News and Record and on-line at www.news-record.com from sports reporter Rob Daniels and not good news at all for a kid we covered for many years while he was at Dudley and all the way back to when Kevin Swinton was a freshman at Southeast Guilford High School. When I [...]

Read The Complete Article - Just another Manic Monday for Dudley’s Kevin Swinton

Here’s a look at how some of our local boys are doing in the race for the State Cross-country championship. As a team Ragsdale has been placing near the top all season long and Christian Crifasi of Eastern Randolph is battling for individual honors.
NCHSAA Midwest 3A Regional
Boy’s Championship Results
October 27, 2007
McAlpine Greenway
Charlotte, NC

Boy’s Championship [...]

Read The Complete Article - Local 3-A Cross-country results from Charlotte

There’s quite a dust up in Indy has WKLU had a guy trying to “break” the record for staying on the air the longest.
“BREAK” is used liberally as it was determined “though they decided not to go for the Guinness recognition. GM Bart Johnson tells Radio-Info that once they began the certification process, they realized [...]

Read The Complete Article - John Walker’s Record Intact – Indy Station not trying for Guinness

NC Gaters Announce Coaches of the Year
Greensboro – The Gaters Board of Trustees names Coaches of the Year. The Gaters had another great year with 6 State AAU Championships and 4 National Medal AAU teams and a National Championship. The 19U Gaters won a National Championship in Orlando this summer. Head Coach of the 19U [...]

Read The Complete Article - North Carolina Gaters tops in NC Boys AAU Hoops

8U / 2nd Grade Sat, Nov 3 1:00PM – 2:00 PM NC Gaters Practice Facility
Sun, Nov 4 1:00PM – 2:00 PM NC Gaters Practice Facility
Tue, Nov 6 6:00PM – 7:00 PM NC Gaters Practice Facility
9U / [...]

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April was the Cici’s Pizza NFL Picks contest winner this week and it was another close race with the points deciding the winner.
April and Marshall both finished tied at 10-2 but April got the win when she was closer in the points chase with the total being 59 and April went with 45 and Marshall [...]

Read The Complete Article - April is the Winner of the Pizza dinner

As Andy reported back in August, WUAG-FM’s John Walker broadcast for 175 Hours. Unfortunately, the way the records people work, it takes some time for the new records to get posted.
So some poor smuck in Indianapolis, Indiana this past week broke the OLD record. Unlike John, he could only do a few more [...]

Read The Complete Article - Indianapolis DJ misinformed on WORLD RECORD – Falls Short by 39 Hours

After the much needed rain of the last few days, the clouds broke on Saturday afternoon as North Carolina A&T played its annual homecoming game at Aggie Stadium against Bethune-Cookman. As a large crowd of 20,013 spectators looked on, the winless-Aggies fell 24-20 in a battle of MEAC teams searching for their first conference win. [...]

Read The Complete Article - A&T Falls in Homecoming Game 24-20

I placed a header graphic on the site today to remind people to vote on Tuesday, November 6th. You can also vote early at several places.
It appalls me that only 7% of Greensboro’s citizens control what happens when it comes to the quality of life in Greensboro. That’s a FAILING GRADE in any [...]

Read The Complete Article - VOTE NOVEMBER 6TH

A&T State Univeristy Homecoming Dinners will be sold at:
Purnell’s Sandwich Shop
2412-A South Elm-Eugene Street
Chitterlings
Hogmauls
Chicken
Hotdogs
Hamburgers
And lots more!! 373-0304

Read The Complete Article - A & T State University Homecoming

No complete Saturday morning rewind in the HS football neighborhood this day because last night all the games in Guilford County were rained out with the exception of one:Eastern Randolph at Southeast Guilford. They played the game and it was just like we said yesterday. In the words of the great theologian Opie [...]

Read The Complete Article - I got a brand new Umbrella and SEG loses to ER 15-8 in OT

Three Local Teams are having their Home Coming Events today! A&T, Guilford and Elon!
NC A&T vs Bethume-Cookman (Homecoming) – 1:30 PM
WSSU vs Hampton – 6 PM
Guilford vs Randolf-Macon (Homecoming) – 1 PM
Greensboro @ Ferrum – 1 PM
Elon vs Chattango (Homecoming) 1:30 PM
Appalachian @ Furman – 3PM
Doug has already covered the ACC teams.
Twin City Cyclones Hockey [...]

Read The Complete Article - Local Saturday College Football & More!

The ACC Football weekend got off to a big start on Thursday night as Boston College traveled to a rainy Blacksburg to take on Virginia Tech in a battle of Top Ten teams. Boston College kept their BCS title hopes alive with a 14-10 come-from- behind victory over the Hokies. Below is the rest of [...]

Read The Complete Article - ACC Football Saturday – 10/27/07

Just when I thought it was safe to post some point-spread picks, WHAMMY 3-11.
32-53-3 for the season: let’s see what the slate holds for this week.
Wisconsin –9 vs. Indiana: Bruce talks about value plays, well this looks like a bargain as the Badgers are traditionally tough at home.
FSU -17 over Duke just on the [...]

Read The Complete Article - If I were a betting man…….