Most first year basketball programs are mere filler games on established school baskeball schedules, but don’t look for Veritas Sports Academy to back down from even the toughest competition. Warrior head coach Keith Gatlin has put together an impressive array of basketball talent that will be able to compete initially at the highest level.
“We [...]

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INAUGURAL BREAKTHROUGH SERIES, SPONSORED BY MLB AND USA BASEBALL,
WILL PROVIDE EXPOSURE FOR TALENTED YOUNG PLAYERS
Major League Baseball has collaborated with USA Baseball to sponsor the inaugural
Breakthrough Series at the MLB Urban Youth Academy in Compton, California, during the week of July 21, 2008.
The event is designed to showcase rising high school junior and [...]

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Veritas Sports Academy-Triad has named Keith Gatlin, former University of Maryland point guard from 1984-1988 as head basketball coach for the 2008 season. Gatlin helped lead the Terps to the 1984 ACC Championship over the Duke Blue Devils and then went on to play 13 years professionally in the CBA, WBL, USBL and overseas.
In [...]

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Here’s the All-Area team from Sunday’s N&R and we had this list two weeks before it made it to the paper. We held off on releasing this to the public because we have to be careful about getting too far ahead of the competition. It’s time to make this a level playing field [...]

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Mense Hits Seventh Home Run of 2008 Campaign
GREENSBORO – Greensboro trailed 7-3 when the skies opened after seven and a half inning of play and weather did not allow the game to resume as the Hoppers dropped the homestand finale to Kannapolis.
All four of Greensboro’s hits came from its top three batters, including Hunter Mense’s [...]

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Raw takes place tonight in Oklahoma City, Okla. The show is sponsored by Jim Ross’s “J.R.’s Bar-BQ” restaurants and he has already indicated that he plans to attend the show even though he’s moved over to the Smackdown side. There is speculation that Ross will call tonight’s show along with Jerry Lawler as a final [...]

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WINSTON-SALEM, NC- The North Carolina Amateur Athletic Union (NCAAU) named their first Hall of Fame inductees at a meeting in Concord, North Carolina on June 1.
To be considered, athletes must have a minimum of three years AAU competition and either exemplary sports achievement and/or civic contributions. A maximum of two athletes are to be inducted [...]

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The Carolina Dynamo Women’s Team earned a split during their weekend road trip through Florida.
On Saturday night, Carolina fell at Tampa 4-0. Last night, the team rebounded with a 5-2 victory over Bradenton.
The Dynamo Women are now 4-6-2 on the season. The team returns home on Friday, July 11 to take on Tampa [...]

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It’s the Grasshoppers – LIVE around 4:30 PM at our USTREAM Page.
Note: Afternoon Shadows may make the video quality poor during a portion of the game. Sorry about that.
Previous games can also be watched on our page. When watching a pre-recorded video, you may fast-forward, rewind as you desire.

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Bobby Stutts often sits with us in the K-Zone. His dad, Robert, is the one who sits beside me and practices his baseball stats by keeping score of the game as if he was the official scorer. He wanted to take pictures of the game, so I let him borrow my camera and [...]

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This weekend an individual thought it would be cute if they personally attacked a family and their student-athletes in the comments of a story Andy Durham had written. This person made the assumption that the family was a regular on the site and therefore took aim with personal insults.
While we would LOVE TO BELIEVE [...]

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The Greensboro Grasshoppers take on the Kannapolis Intimidators – LIVE fron NewBridge Bank Park. The telcast begins at 6:30 PM. You can also watch previous games at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/greensboro-sports
UPDATE: In what was probably a first in Minor League Baseball – Grasshoppers Catcher Tyler Belcher went from catcher to pitcher in the 8th Inning. [...]

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State Games of North Carolina is wrapping up in a big way this weekend with swimming at Lindley Park Pool, Baseball at Carolyn Allen (Horsepen Creek Rd.) but the real hit is High School Basketball at the Special Events Center at the (Greensboro) Coliseum.
We have 5 courts over there. We brought in 2 from [...]

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Andy dropped by the State Games being held at the Greensboro Coliseum for these pictures:

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Greensboro is the host city for two important and prestigious youth soccer events in June and July that have national reputations resulting in significant economic impact locally and regionally. The United States Soccer Federation Development Academy Summer Showcase brings 128 boys teams to Greensboro’s Bryan Park Soccer Complex today through Monday and will return [...]

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Here’s the LINK to UStream, where you can watch the Grasshoppers in action tonight against the Kannapolis Intimidators. The stream will be up around 6:30 PM. There is a chance of thunderstorms, so game time may be affected.
You can also watch previous games recorded earlier at the same link

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Rey Mysterio was not happy about being moved from the Smackdown brand over to the Raw side. He took pride in the fact that the Smackdown side was more concerned with attracting the Latino demographic. Like most wrestlers, he was also upset that he would be leaving some friends behind and felt snubbed because the [...]

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A year ago, there was speculation that former shoe company czar Sonny Vaccaro was set to go barnstorming over in Europe with a group that would include O.J. Mayo, Bill Walker and a few other elite players coming out of high school.
At the time, it seemed pretty far-fetched that an American-born player would bypass [...]

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“It was the stupidest, most freakish thing,” Detroit Tigers catcher Brandon Inge said Wednesday, explaining why he had just been placed on the 15-day DL with the pulled side muscle (oblique) he suffered 3 1/2 weeks ago.
“I have a 3-year-old son who sleeps in the bed with my wife and me,” Inge said. “I was [...]

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The North Carolina State Games are still going on in Greensboro and the basketball games with teams from all over the state are happening this weekend at the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center.
Northern Guilford played this morning at 8am and Dudley will be in action at 2pm this afternoon. I spoke with coach David [...]

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