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COLUMN: Hancock setting a winning tone at EB
Jon Hancock has his East Burke boys basketball team in the very heart of the Catawba Valley 2A Conference championship race as the regular season draws to a close.
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COLUMN: The best time of the year
Every sports fan has his or her favorite time of year.
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COLUMN: NCHSAA setting the wrong example
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) long ago divided our high schools into classifications from smallest to largest to determine state champions.
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COLUMN: Make all-star games more meaningful
The Sunday before the Super Bowl is always one of the toughest sports days of the year for the American sports fan.
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COLUMN: What if East Burke never split?
Looking back to 2003 when I was a freshman JV football player at East Burke High School, I never would have expected a world outside the 4A classification or one with four different high schools in Burke County.
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COLUMN: Birth of ACC hoops, Part III
I recently read the book ACC Basketball by J. Samuel Walker and was flooded with many great memories. These memories ran the gamut from certain games to great athletes to new coliseums to colorful characters, and on and on.
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COLUMN: Birth of ACC hoops, Part II
The ACC was formed in 1953 when the “big four” schools of North Carolina, N.C. State, Wake Forest and Duke joined up with South Carolina, Clemson, Virginia and Maryland to leave the old Southern Conference.
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COLUMN: Birth of ACC hoops, Part I
I mentioned two weeks ago that the organizers of the ACC were really looking to upgrade their football programs in the early 1950s but instead put together the finest basketball conference in the country over much of the nest 50 years.
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COLUMN: Newton shines, but Yates still playing
The Carolina Panthers can thank their lucky stars for Cam Newton.
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COLUMN: Top 5 local sports stories of 2011
As we say goodbye to another year and ring in the new one, I’ve got to tell you, I’m starting to feel old.
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COLUMN: A great time to be a Panthers fan
The Carolina Panthers are 6-9, they’ve been rocked by numerous season-ending injuries (especially on the defensive side of the ball), and no matter what happens in Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints, they will miss the playoffs for the third season in a row.
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COLUMN: The ACC … a football league?
Many say there is neither rhyme nor reason for all the conference shuffling going on in college sports. A good example is TCU’s recent consideration of joining the Big East.
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COLUMN: USC's Barkley made the right call
With the announcement Thursday that quarterback Matt Barkley would be returning to Southern Cal for his senior season, Barkley not only primed himself to become one of, if not the greatest, Trojan football players but he also receives in my opinion the higher honor of earning the “Zach Daw seal of approval.”
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COLUMN: Panthers' Smith should watch what he says
I usually love the passion and enthusiasm that Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith displays. After catching balls, he’ll get up and pound his chest or scream or get in the face of opposing players.
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COLUMN: Black Mountain's Stewart slowly nearing release
Sammy Stewart grew up only 40 miles west of us in the little town of Black Mountain. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, he was a member of one of the greatest pitching staffs in baseball with the Baltimore Orioles.
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COLUMN: Rookie QBs continue to impress
Cam Newton has certainly received considerable attention this season, and it’s easy to see why.
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COLUMN: A two-sport hall of famer?
Winning a national championship assures many coaches of a lifelong elevated status of greatness.
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COLUMN: Tebowmania? I like it
Over the last few years there have been many reasons why I have soured on watching ESPN for sports news coverage, but the reason I point to most often is how they tend to overhype the top stories of the day.
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COLUMN: How good will Panthers be in 2012?
The Carolina Panthers are 4-8, which is hardly noteworthy.
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COLUMN: Rodgers, Packers atop the NFL
Quarterbacks are in a category of their own on sports teams. No other position in all of team sports carries the importance as that of QB in football.
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COLUMN: Just win, baby
This past Sunday, the Carolina Panthers did something they hadn’t done in over a month, something they had done just twice all season long.
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COLUMN: A time to be thankful
Over the years, I’ve been a fan of Ron Green Sr., who headed up the Charlotte Observer’s sports pages for many years.
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COLUMN: Draughn football and some sports records
I want to personally congratulate coach Scott Lambert for the great season he’s just finished with the Draughn High football team.
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COLUMN: Who's giving thanks
I believe a few weeks ago this weekly sports column passed the one year anniversary of my first Guilford blog being published in The News Herald.
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COLUMN: Showdown at the 'Stead
One race and a title is up for grabs.
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