We have received key information concerning George Carter, pitcher/first baseman for the Grimsley Whirlies.
He has been heavily recruited by UNC and USC (So. Carolina) over the past couple of months. Both have made generous scholarship offers. After much consideration George accepted UNC’s offer and gave them his verbal committment today(Saturday).
Coaches Fox and Forbes [...]

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Pirates and Golden Hurricane Will Kick Off Saturday At 12 Noon (EST)
GREENVILLE, N.C. – East Carolina finally has an opponent for next Saturday’s Conference USA Football Championship Game.
With its 38-35 victory at Marshall Saturday afternoon, coupled with Houston’s 56-42 loss at Rice, Tulsa has punched its ticket to the fourth annual league title game. [...]

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Northern Guilford was the stop on Saturday for the Piedmont Basketball Challenge, the brain-child of Coach Stan Kowalewski and Coach Kenny Carter. Coach K is the boys head coach at Northern and Coach Cater is man in charge of the girls team at High Point Central.
The Challenge began at High Point Central a few [...]

Read The Complete Article - Piedmont Challenge:Who is going to stop teams like Northern Guilford and Trinity

The big matchup that everyone wanted to see, came and actually lived up to and exceeded the expectations. I’m talking about the game between the two undefeateds-Dudley and Ragsdale, if you need reminding.
 
The crowd was listed at 4,000 in attendance. I think that was WAY off-I’m thinking 6,500-7,000. The Ragsdale side had at least 3,500 [...]

Read The Complete Article - What a game! It had it all and we were there! Dudley 26 Ragsdale 10‏

You have to give it to the Dudley Panthers defensive line. They dictated the outcome of the game Friday night with Ragsdale and the Panthers(14-0) move on to face Northeast Guilford(8-6), for the 3-AA East Championship next Friday night at Tarpley Stadium on the Dudley campus. It will be an all-Triad 3-A conference [...]

Read The Complete Article - HS football Saturday morning rewind:Dudley’s defense dictates the outcome at Tarpley

Tonight at MArion Kirby Stadium Fayetteville 71st forced 4 turnovers and QB Gerad Brayborn threw for one score and ran for another as the Falcons flattened the Pirates 28-3. 71st speed on defense and the skill positions posted a daunting challange for the Pirates but early on QB Will Newman went down with a seperated [...]

Read The Complete Article - 71ST stops Page playoff run 28-3

UPDATED: 9:56 PM
Fayetteville 71st 28 at Page 3 – Final (Newman injured/out most of game)
Ragsdale 10 at Dudley 26 – Final
Northeast Guilford 7 at Northern Vance 6 – Final
Pittsboro at Reidsville (No reports)
Albermarle 13 at Thomasville 24 – Final
NEXT WEEK’S GAME : Northeast Guilford at Dudley

9:44 PM
Fayetteville 71st 28 at Page 3 – Final (Newman [...]

Read The Complete Article - Friday Night Football – Playoffs

Ragsdale(13-0) at Dudley(13-0) tonight on AM950 at 7pm pre-game and 7:30 kickoff at Dudley’s Tarpley Stadium.
We will also have updates on Fayetteville 71st(11-2) at Page(9-4) and Northeast Guilford(7-6) at Northern Vance(8-5).
Don Moore will constant updates for you also at GREENSBOROSports.com and you can catch the radio better at wpetam950.com….It seems like everything is heading toward [...]

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from Big Jim Modlin, Fitness Today on Randleman Road…..
Please give us the Total Points on the Carolina Panthers-Green Bay game and see if you can beat Big Jim and win the FREE Pizza this week. Get ready to make your picks.
Man oh man, I guess I’ll have to be perfect to be numero uno [...]

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I’ll be in a un-disclosed location near a ton of really big Christmas Lights this Friday “Live Blogging” Ragsdale and Dudley, along with the scores that Andy gets called in to him, Big Jim Modlin and Jimmy Fulmer at WPET-AM Command Post, along with listening to other stations that might be carrying other High School [...]

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Tags: High School Playoffs

from the Baltimore Sun courtesy of NotJimMelvin:
Thanksgiving for me during my teens and early 20s was more about dropkicks than drumsticks. Back then, there was always a major wrestling event on Thanksgiving night. Unfortunately, that tradition ended nearly 20 years ago. Thanksgiving episodes of Smackdown (before the show moved to Friday nights three years ago) [...]

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On a day when we are supposed to reflect on things to be thankful for, this little nugget has started making the rounds on the internet.
During his coaches show (whenever the hell that is), UNC-CH head football coach Butch Davis said:
“This is by no means an excuse for the game. But Shaun shared something [...]

Read The Complete Article - UNC-CH, Butch Davis and Vaseline? Something to be thankful for

Tags: NC State Wolfpack, UNC Tar Heels, Vaseline

Last week 12-4 110-62-1 for the season.
Tennessee @ Detroit: The Titans fell hard last week, the Lions have been in free fall for 50 years. Under normal circumstances this would be a resounding rout, and it may well be today as well. But something tells me the Lions will make it interesting. Titans 27 [...]

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Bruce Mitchell from the Pro Wrestling Torch and pwtorch.com takes us back to one of the great Thanksgiving Traditions at the Greensboro Coliseum and he tells us how Ric Flair will try and bring a slice of that nostalgia back to the Gate City on December 5.
Maybe you know that twenty-five years ago this Thanksgiving [...]

Read The Complete Article - A Thanksgiving Tradition Revisited – Ric Flair Returns To Greensboro

Robert Bell of the N&R and www.news-record.com has the skinny on the return of Arena Football to Greensboro and it’s arena ring-leader Clayton Banner. Banner was the first-ever coach of our old and beloved Greensboro Prowlers who played indoors at the Greensboro Coliseum.
Former Greensboro Monarchs and Generals hockey coach Jeff Brubaker is [...]

Read The Complete Article - Arena/indoor football coming to Proehlific Park, former Greensboro Prowlers coach Clayton Banner leading the return

Ric Flair, as previously mentioned, was on the Primetime With The Packman syndicated radio show(Tuesday) to plug his appearance for Highspots.com at the Vance High School in Charlotte, N.C.
Flair is a semi-regular guest on host Mark Packer’s show. He announced that not only would he be in the corner of his sons David and [...]

Read The Complete Article - Bruce Mitchell breaks it:Hogan/Flair to be on same card in Charlotte

Both teams (13-0) and playing like it’s nobody’s business who they beat next…..This might just be the State 3-AA Title game when they meet at Dudley this Friday evening. We have been piling the hype on this game all week and for good reason.
This is the BIG ONE. How often do you see [...]

Read The Complete Article - This might just be the State Championship game when Ragsdale meets Dudley Friday night

2009 WALMART BASS FISHING LEAGUE ENTRY DATES SET
 
BENTON, Ky. (Nov. 25, 2008) – FLW Outdoors has announced entry dates for the 2009 Walmart Bass Fishing League, the nation’s largest and most rewarding weekend bass-fishing circuit featuring more than $9 million in prize money distributed through 28 geographic divisions.
 
Each division features four one-day qualifiers that offer [...]

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BALTIMORE, MD – Corey Maret blasted a shot into the lower right corner of the goal 2:11 into overtime to lead UNC Greensboro to a 2-1 victory over Loyola (MD) in the second round of the NCAA men’s soccer tournament.
It got late for Cinderella on Tuesday night, as the Spartans trailed 1-0 with 20 minutes [...]

Read The Complete Article - The magic continues as Spartans shock No. 9 Loyola in OT

The inside from one our readers and the Northern guard who hit those three-pointers was Dylan Berry…
I heard the NEG/Page game time were switched. I called a parent at the game and was shocked to hear the girls game was a low scoring 31-17 with Page coming out on top. Both teams are definitely rebuilding. [...]

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