Die-hard football fans loved this man. He came across as a gentle-giant and on the surface that is how he will be remembered. He was one of the top defensive linemen in the NFL, when he played for the Los Angels Rams and he helped form the Fearsome Foursome, that pro football fans [...]

Read The Complete Article - Death of Merlin Olsen will hit football fans hard

FINAL
Miami 83
Wake Forest 62
*****Will this be the final game of the season for the Demon Deacons? Wake is one win shy of 20, will that still be enough to get them into the Tournament or will they play round one of the NIT at the LJVM??*****
from www.espn.com:
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Redshirt freshman Reggie Johnson scored a [...]

Read The Complete Article - ACC Basketball Tournament from the Greensboro Coliseum: No peakin’ for Deacons as they Cane’t get it done!

Virginia 68
Boston College 62
Greensboro, N.C. (ACC Tournament)
from www.espn.com:
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Sammy Zeglinski scored 16 of his season-high 21 points in the first half to help Virginia beat Boston College 68-62 on Thursday in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
Mike Scott had 11 points and 13 rebounds for the ninth-seeded Cavaliers (15-15), who [...]

Read The Complete Article - ACC men from the Greensboro Coliseum: Cavs can BC, first tournament win since ‘06

The opening part of this is re-printed from March of 2009:
Who is your favorite radio announcer????? Back in the day you had Woody Durham and Mick Mixon doing all the games of the ACC men’s basketball tournament, going wire-to-wire, Thursday through Sunday.
The same could be said for Bob Harris and Danny Highsmith/Mike Waters, Gene Overby [...]

Read The Complete Article - Radio coverage for the 2010 ACC Tournament in Greensboro

from www.theacc.com:
Wednesday, Mar 10
North Carolina 8, St. John’s 2
Chapel Hill, N.C.
UNC Wilmington 10, Wake Forest 3
Wilmington, N.C.
Florida State 6, UNF 2
Tallahassee, Fla.
Virginia 12, William & Mary 6
Williamsburg, Va.
Bryant 5, Virginia Tech 3
Blacksburg, Va.
FIU 18, Boston College 14
Miami, Fla.
Georgia Tech @ Mercer (Postponed)
Macon, Ga.
Duke @ Wofford (Postponed)
Spartanburg, S.C.
Thursday, Mar 11
Gardner-Webb @ Clemson
Clemson, SC
4:00 PM

Read The Complete Article - ACC Baseball Update: UNCW, FIU and Bryant with sneak attacks

Guilford College at Southern Virginia (DH) 12 Noon
Greensboro College at Washington & Lee 3pm
from Wednesday:
Richmond 2
HPU 1
Elon 10
ODU 9
from the Elon site:
For the second straight game, the Elon Phoenix baseball team picked up the win with a rally in the bottom of the ninth inning. On Wednesday, Grant McCoury’s pinch-hit double to center drove in [...]

Read The Complete Article - Local College Baseball Today

The first person to correctly pick the winners of all four games today at the Greensboro Coliseum is going to CiCi’s Pizza….Free Buffet round up if you are quick and if you have the right pick/picks….
The four winners of today’s games at the Big Barn on West Lee as Rich Brenner used to say….
Have at [...]

Read The Complete Article - Pick Four

They were reading this over the air today on the Prime Time with The Pack Man radio show. Ed Hardin has himself a hit with his article on the North Carolina basketball team from Monday’s News and Record.
Pack Man was talking about it, John Kilgo said it was one of the most revealing pieces [...]

Read The Complete Article - Ed Hardin N&R article has the masses talking

Special to Greensborosports.com from Northwest Guilford-grad/Cross Country star, and now Assistant SID at ECU, Charles Welch:
No. 1 Seed Tulane Ousts ECU, 73-64
ECU Awaits Possible WNIT Berth Monday
TULSA, Okla. – The fifth-seeded East Carolina women’s basketball team fell victim to
a hot shooting top-seeded Tulane squad Wednesday, falling 73-64 in the first
semifinal of the 2010 GMC Sierra [...]

Read The Complete Article - East Carolina women’s basketball news courtesy of NWG-grad Charles Welch

The GTCC baseball team jumped out to an early 6-1 lead on Wake Tech and cruised to
an 8-4 victory on Wednesday. Mike Russo belted a 3-run homer in the 4th inning and
Preston Asbill and Conor Burke each added 2 hits for the Titans. Branon Handsel
picked up the win throwing 2 solid innings of [...]

Read The Complete Article - Titans ease by Wake Tech

Lynchburg, Va. — The Greensboro College baseball team lost at Lynchburg College, 14-12, on Wednesday. Ryan Summerford (Southern Pines, NC/Pinecrest High School) and Tyler O’Neill (Columbia, Md/Oakland Mills) had big days at the plate for The Pride in the defeat.
Summerford went 2-5 with a double, one run and 3 RBI. O’Neill was 2-3 [...]

Read The Complete Article - Greensboro College Baseball drops wild one at Lynchburg

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro Coliseum is not the only venue to host high-quality college basketball this weekend as Guilford College welcomes three of the nation’s top-17 NCAA Division III men’s basketball teams to its Ragan-Brown Field House.
While the Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament takes place a few miles away, Guilford hosts one of [...]

Read The Complete Article - Guilford Ready to Host NCAA Division III Sectional Tournament

Tags: Mens Basketball

As Andy works on the prizes, I’m finishing up the code and testing to allow us to have our own NCAA Mens Basketball Bracket Contest. We will post the link immediately after the play-in Game – our software does not allow for the #65 Team.
Each entry will require a unique email address, so [...]

Read The Complete Article - Sharpen Your Pencils – The Brackets Are Coming

Tags: Mens Basketball

CHAPEL HILL – Less than a year after earning his second national championship and publishing his autobiography “Hard Work,” North Carolina coach Roy Williams is stunned, angry and saddened that he’s still trying to figure out how to make this season’s team work hard.
from the Charlotte Observer.com Click Here and you will see what Coach [...]

Read The Complete Article - Roy Williams, “I can’t find the answers”: Season is ‘biggest disappointment’

For today 3/10/2010:
Greensboro College at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia at 2pm
GTCC vs. Wake Tech Community College in Cary
Eastern Kentucky vs. N.C. A&T at War Memorial Stadium at 3pm
Old Dominion at Elon 4pm
Richmond at High Point University 4pm
from Tuesday:
GREENSBORO, N.C. – UNC Greensboro pulled out to an early 5-2 lead, but Eastern Kentucky scored five [...]

Read The Complete Article - Stepping up to the plate with local college baseball: N.C. A&T’s Lester Rivenbark with a two-run homer on Tuesday

*****If you leave right now you can get there in time for almost all of these games. Take Midway Airlines/Wright Brothers Aviation to Gaffney, South Carolina and then you’ll fly non-stop to FSU….*****
St. John’s @ North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C.
3:00 PM
Wake Forest @ UNC Wilmington
Wilmington, N.C.
4:00 PM
North Florida @ Florida State
Tallahassee, Fla.
4:00 PM [...]

Read The Complete Article - ACC Baseball Today

Here’s the new quick link to get the entire article:
News and Record
To get the full details check out the Wednesday edition of the News and Record sports or go to the home page at www.news-record.com now…..
CHAPEL HILL — A member of UNC’s 2005 Men’s National Championship basketball team was arrested over the weekend after getting [...]

Read The Complete Article - Former North Carolina Tar Heel star Scott lands in hot water

GTCC Titan infielder Abe Fernandez belted a two-run single with two outs to cap off a
5-run bottom of the 9th inning rally as GTCC defeated Wilkes Community College 8-7.
GTCC shook off a sluggish start and sloppy play for most of the day to pick up their
9th win of the season.
Matt Dillon had 3 [...]

Read The Complete Article - Titans rally by Cougars

from www.theacc.com:
ACC PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Player Votes
Greivis Vasquez, Md 39
Jon Scheyer, Duke 12
Malcolm Delaney, VT 2
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Maryland guard Greivis Vasquez, whose all-around game has lifted Maryland into the national rankings and a share of the ACC’s regular-season title in 2010, has been named the league’s Player of the Year in voting by the [...]

Read The Complete Article - Vasquez named ACC Player of the Year/Williams Coach of the Year

Free Admission – Free Parking – Free Water!
Ten teams will hit the floor beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday and all fans are invited to come check out their favorite ACC team in action. Doors to the Coliseum will open at 9:30 a.m.
Here’s the full schedule….
Virginia – 10:00 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.
Boston College – 11:00 [...]

Read The Complete Article - ACC Practices Wednesday – FREE FREE FREE!