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‘We’re all people’: Chicago No Kings demonstration sees giant crowd march peacefully around Loop
CHICAGO - The sounds of one of Chicago's largest protests in recent memory reverberated throughout downtown streets Saturday afternoon, as tens of thousands gathered in a united admonishment of President Donald Trump and then marched through the center of the city, pausing in front of the tower bearing his name to direct their ire.
White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with new Rate Field artwork
CHICAGO - In the days and months before he died in July 2020, Ed Schmit received comfort in phone calls from an old friend. "Father Bob," as Schmit knew Robert Prevost, was then a Catholic bishop in Peru, but Schmit and Prevost shared a bond forged through their Southside roots, their work at St. Rita High School in Chicago - and their mutual love of the Chicago White Sox.
Why FSU coach, Gastonia native Leonard Hamilton’s retirement is such a big loss for ACC
For one last time as a college basketball head coach, Leonard Hamilton is coming home and back to where it all began. Close enough, anyway. The distance between Gastonia and the Spectrum Center in Charlotte is about 25 miles, a short drive east through the rolling hills of southwestern North Carolina. For Hamilton, the distance can be measured in a lifetime. He grew up near the corner of North Morris Street and West Allison Avenue in Gastonia, and inside the church at the intersection there.
With Florida State, Clemson dropping lawsuits there is peace in the ACC – sort of. Here’s what to know
In 1938, with much of Europe besieged by the threat of widespread war, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain offered one of the most incorrect and short-sighted assessments in modern world history. In celebrating an agreement designed to appease Germany and reduce ever-increasing hostility, Chamberlain said the deal would bring “peace for our time.” Instead, it only delayed the inevitable. Germany, it turned out, could not be appeased.
How UNC basketball’s Cade Tyson has maintained faith amid criticism, noise of tough season
The first of Cade Tyson’s six points on Monday night at Florida State came after he rebounded a teammate’s missed shot and quickly scored to break a tie. About five minutes remained in the first half and the Seminoles then were testing North Carolina in a game the Tar Heels had to have. Upon his put-back, Tyson offered a slight flex; a small manifestation of burgeoning confidence.
Four in a row: Takeaways from North Carolina basketball’s ACC win at Florida State
North Carolina approached mid-February as a team in turmoil, with its NCAA Tournament hopes fading by the game; with a talented but flawed roster often finding ways to lose, and never finding the correct combination for sustained success. The losses were piling up. The angst surrounding one of college basketball’s proudest programs was rising.
ACC basketball was once king — so how has the once-proud conference reached such a low?
Upon the discomforting speculation that the ACC might only send three teams to the NCAA Tournament, one of the league’s coaches had this to say: “People may think I’m crazy, but there’s just so many games left. It’s not out of the question that a team could catch fire or two teams catch fire. I just think it’s incomprehensible that anybody could suggest with any kind of merit that there would only be three teams.” This is not a quote from this week or last week or even this year.
UNC withers late — again: 3 takeaways from the Tar Heels’ ACC road loss to Pittsburgh
North Carolina arrived in cold, snow-covered Pittsburgh on Monday perhaps not in the midst of a season on the brink, but without question in the middle of one with an ever-shrinking margin of error. The rising pressure surrounding the Tar Heels had to be freeing, in some ways, given the stakes are so clear: if they’re to find a higher level, the ascent has to start now. Their game here at Pitt on Tuesday night was never going to be a season-maker.
Tar Heels to hire NFL Super Bowl champion as next head coach
What first sounded like a far-fetched impossibility when the thought first surfaced late last week became an improbable and astonishing reality Wednesday: North Carolina plans to hire Bill Belichick, one of the most accomplished NFL head coaches ever, as the school's new head football coach. According to multiple media reports, the school intends to hire Belichick, 72, who led the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl victories during the 2000s and 2010s.
Mack Brown will not return as UNC’s head coach for 2025 college football season
READ MORE North Carolina fired head football coach Mack Brown on Tuesday, Nov. 26, just four days before the team’s final regular-season game, against rival N.C. State. Expand All Mack Brown, who in the 1990s led North Carolina to national football prominence during his first stint as the school’s head coach, and whose return in late 2018 inspired hope of a similar rise that never came to fruition, will not be back next season, the school announced Tuesday.
As college football season draws to an end, what can NC schools be in changing landscape?
North Carolina linebacker Power Echols (23) stops Wake Forest running back Demond Claiborne (1) after a two-yard gain in the first quarter on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com On the field, the difference between North Carolina and Wake Forest on Saturday night at Kenan Stadium wound up being only a touchdown.
NC State's disappointing season epitomizes quandary of NIL-driven college football world
N.C. State head coach Dave Doeren watches the coin toss before N.C. State's game against Duke at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, N.C., Sat. Nov. 9, 2024. ehyman@newsobserver.com It could be argued that college football's most recent offseason was the most exciting time to be an N.C. State football fan in a long, long time. The folks in charge of the Wolfpack's NIL efforts asked for money. Fans obliged.
UNC, Kansas basketball share storied history
Kansas coach Roy Williams (left) talks with his mentor UNC coach Dean Smith before their two teams met in the 1993 National Championship semfinal game in New Orleans. UNC came out on top and went on to defeat Michigan to win the National Championship. ssharpe@newsobserver.com Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories exploring the storied and unique relationship between two of college basketball's historically elite programs, North Carolina and Kansas.
ACC basketball aims to fix image, change narrative
Toward the end of each of the past three men's college basketball seasons, the ACC has experienced something of a collective catharsis. It has become routine over the past few years, a budding tradition in a sport that has found itself fighting for sustained relevancy in a college athletics world more and more driven by football. By now, everyone knows the deal: ACC men's basketball teams might spend parts of November and December finding themselves, at best, or languishing at worst.
Grading Triangle football at midpoint
Fans react after Wake Forest made a first down late in the second half of Wake Forest's 34-30 victory over N.C. State at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. ehyman@newsobserver.com Well, that was a wild college football Saturday, wasn't it? Vanderbilt taking down Alabama, and then delirious Commodores fans parading one of the goal posts through downtown Nashville and depositing it into the Cumberland River.
How NC State's embarrassing loss underscores North Carolina's college football futility
N.C. State head coach Dave Doeren walks away after congratulating Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel after Tennessee's 51-10 victory over N.C. State in the Duke's Mayo Classic at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024.
Is this really NC State football's year? This, and other questions facing Triangle teams
N.C. State linebacker Caden Fordham (10) and the defense run drills during the Wolfpack's first practice in Raleigh, N.C., Wednesday, July 31, 2024. ehyman@newsobserver.com Duke, North Carolina and N.C. State have combined for 340 college football seasons among them, and all have competed in the sport for at least the past 102 years (for Duke, and since 1902 for both UNC and N.C. State).
UNC baseball hangs on, sweeps West Virginia in NCAA Tournament Chapel Hill Super Regional
North Carolina left fielder Casey Cook (16) greets North Carolina's Vance Honeycutt (7) at home plate after he connected for a home run in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead against West Virginia during the NCAA Super Regional on Saturday, June 8, 2024 at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com North Carolina's run through this NCAA baseball tournament has come to be defined by what its players and coaches and even many of its fans, hungry for a long-elusive national...
Florida State-ACC was a perfect marriage
Florida State Seminoles head coach Mike Norvell is handed the ACC Championship trophy by ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips after defeating Louisville at Bank of America Stadium in December 2023. USA TODAY Sports Long before the looming divorce between Florida State and the ACC, decades before the bitter legal filings and the dueling lawsuits playing out in courtrooms in North Carolina and Florida, there was something almost like romance. Not love, exactly.
A storm surrounded UNC's Hubert Davis a year ago. He made it out to the other side
North Carolina coach Hubert Davis laughs with R.J. Davis (4) during the Tar Heels' practice on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA. North Carolina will face Alabama in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen on Thursday. rwillett@newsobserver.com The most surprising thing was not necessarily what some disgruntled North Carolina supporters started to say about a year ago, but how quickly the discourse began.
As potential Elite Eight game vs. UNC looms, Arizona's Caleb Love 'grateful' for journey
It was a year ago Wednesday when Caleb Love announced his decision to transfer from North Carolina, in a social media post that generated nearly six million views. The news rippled across the corners of the Internet where people most closely follow college basketball, with Love writing how he'd "cherish the bonds" he'd made at UNC; that "I will love you all forever." His decision to transfer was an emotional one.
UNC out of tune-ups after sloppy yet decisive win over Wagner; Michigan State up next
North Carolina's R.J. Davis (4) sets up for a three point attempt in front of the the Tar Heels' bench in the second half against Wagner on Thursday, March 21, 2024 during the NCAA Tournament at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com It hardly felt like an escape - not after a final margin almost 30 points wide; not after North Carolina pulled away enough to afford its walk-ons a bit of playing time in its first NCAA Tournament game in almost two years - but the Tar...
UNC basketball takes care of business. Tar Heels top Wagner to open NCAA Tournament
North Carolina's R.J. Davis (4) drives to the basket against Wagner's Tyje Kelton (4) in the first half on Thursday, March 21, 2024 during the NCAA Tournament at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com One of the small joys of early-round NCAA Tournament games are the quiet moments that play out behind the scenes, in the shadows before tip-off, during a time of unrivaled anticipation and hope.
Who will UNC play
North Carolina's Harrison Ingram (55) reacts after a three point basket in the first half against N.C. State during the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Championship at Capitol One Arena on Saturday, March 16, 2024 in Washington, D.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com Caleb Love made one of the most memorable shots of any player at North Carolina - the one in the final moments of a 2022 NCAA Tournament semifinal that pushed the Tar Heels toward a victory against Duke.
Underdog NC State, top seed UNC clash for championship
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North Carolina and N.C. State players warm up before N.C. State's game against UNC in the championship game of the 2024 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., Saturday, March 16, 2024. ehyman@newsobserver.com The final that no one expected, but everyone now appreciates, is set for Saturday night at the ACC Tournament.
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UNC's Cormac Ryan takes his place in lore of the Duke-North Carolina rivalry
In the delirium of North Carolina's 84-79 victory at Duke on Saturday night, which came with all the intensity and noise and drama befitting this rivalry, Hubert Davis was getting emotional about the guys who came back; about Armando Bacot and RJ Davis, in particular. For it was this kind of game on this kind of stage, with these kinds of stakes, that compelled them to return. "They came back for this," Davis said, tears starting to well. "They came back to experience this. ...
Hubert Davis didn't need redemption
North Carolina coach Hubert Davis directs his team during the first half against Tennessee on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at the Smith Center in. Chapel Hill, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com Around this time two years ago, Hubert Davis led North Carolina to what was then the most memorable victory of his head coaching tenure, the one that spoiled Mike Krzyzewski's final home game at Duke.
How many games? How many farms? How many big match-ups?
North Carolina's Theo Pinson (1) celebrates the Tar Heels 82-78 victory over Duke on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at the Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. Saturday's matchup between Duke and North Carolina is the latest in what has long been the greatest rivalry in college basketball and one of the greatest in American sport. It's a rivalry that has helped define Tobacco Road. It's the 49th time with both Duke and UNC ranked among the top 10 when playing each other.
The ACC's search for long term viability and other stories to remember from 2023
North Carolina field hockey coach Erin Matson celebrates with her team after clinching the 2023 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship on Sunday, November 19, 20223 at Karen Shelton Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com As far as years go, 2023 was ... OK for Triangle-area sports. Just OK. And hey: "OK" isn't too bad, all things considered. We could be Charlotte. They yearn for OK down there. In Charlotte, OK would be cause for celebration. It'd be an upgrade.
One Raleigh woman's race against time
Whitford Wooten, an assistant field hockey coach at Ravenscroft High School, gets a hug from Kiara Irvine and Claire Anysz after Wooten was honored during a ceremony before their game with St. Mary's School Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Wooten has ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease), a progressive neurodegenerative disease.
If that really was Drake Maye's last game in Chapel Hill, it provided a fitting full-circle ending
North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye (10) scores on a one-yard run to give the Tar Heels a 7-0 lead against Duke in the first quarter on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com Here was Drake Maye in the middle of it all late Saturday night, in the middle of the kind of moment that he had to have imagined countless times as a kid, coming to Kenan Stadium with his brothers and his mom and dad, Mark, who set all of this in motion 40 years ago.
Salty Dave Doeren and somber Mack Brown trade places on Triangle's eternal college football carousel
A little more than two weeks ago in Durham, after one of N.C. State's more deflating losses in recent seasons, Dave Doeren spoke in somber tones about his team's performance in defeat at Duke. The Wolfpack managed to muster three points that night, on a field goal on a short field on its first possession, and then spent 59 minutes delivering the worst kind of offensive football. There were penalties. Dropped passes galore. Sloppy moment after sloppy moment.
Duke, UNC fast football starts prove 'basketball school' label an outdated misnomer
The Tar Heels enter Kenan Stadium for their game against Minnesota on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com This is going to be controversial, to some. It's going to be misunderstood, like when we began the discussion around this time a year ago about Appalachian State having the best college football program in North Carolina. And yet it needs to be said. Because it's true, for one.
As college football abandons what made it special, games like UNC-App State should be savored
Appalachian State running back Nate Noel (5) celebrates with teammates after scoring a touchdown on a 7-yard carry to take a 33-27 lead over North Carolina in overtime on Saturday September 9, 2023 at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com By now it has become evident that the powers that be in college athletics will sell out every single thing that's good about the endeavor in pursuit of a dollar. Especially if that dollar is tied to a television network.
UNC, App State delivered another thriller
North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye (10) reacts after scoring the game winning touchdown on a 13-yard run in over time to give the Tar Heels' a 40-34 lead over Appalachian State on Saturday September 9, 2023 at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com In the span of eight days, North Carolina packed just about an entire season's worth of emotion into two games, and their aftermath.
North Carolina's essential role in feeding the American pastime
Peanut farmer Donny Lassiter in one of his peanuts fields at the Mofield farm on Monday, July 10, 2023 near Jackson, N.C. Lassiter plants approximately 1,500 acres in Virginia peanuts annually, which can produce up to 5,000 pounds per acre. rwillett@newsobserver.com The man climbed into the tractor - a big green John Deere 8235R, to be exact - and took his seat behind the oversized windshield, nothing but straight lines in the dirt in front of him, about as far as the eye could see.
Making sense of the ACC spring meetings, and the ACC's so-called demise
In a special edition of the ACC Now podcast, The News & Observer's Andrew Carter, still recovering from a hard week of work on Amelia Island, Florida, tries to make sense of the ACC's annual spring meetings. Is the league really on the verge of collapse, as so many postulate on social media? And what to make of all this talk of a "Magnificent Seven" looking to break away? That and more, with appearances by Duke athletic director Nina King, and ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips.
ACC spring meetings all about the money
Football helmets with the ACC logo, signed by league coaches, during the ACC Football Kickoff on Thursday, July 21, 2016 at the Westin Hotel in Charlotte, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com The ACC's annual spring meetings commence here on Monday, at an oceanfront resort hotel where the most basic of rooms goes for more than $1,100 per night (an ocean view will cost more than $1,250, and almost double for a suite with a fireplace).
Duke's season comes to an abrupt end, and with it a painful lesson on toughness on the perils of youth
Duke's Kyle Filipowski (30), with a cut under his eye from the game against Tennessee, listens to questions from the media following their 65-52 loss to Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, March 18, 2023 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla.
Duke basketball's Jeremy Roach traveled a long road before leading team to ACC title
Duke's Jeremy Roach (3) celebrates late in the second half of Duke's 59-49 victory over Virginia to win the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Saturday, March 11, 2023.
ACC tournament the biggest story in Greensboro. There's barely a hometown paper left to cover it
The Greensboro Coliseum is illuminated by flash pots prior to the player introductions for the Clemson vs Virginia game in the semi-finals of the ACC Tournament on Friday, March 10, 2023 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. The media workroom at the Greensboro Coliseum is all beige-painted cinder block walls and harsh fluorescent lighting, a drab space in every way except for one: all the history lining the walls.
ACC football might be down but, for once, North Carolina schools doing their part
N.C. State wide receiver Terrell Timmons Jr. (82) shushes the crowd after scoring on a 28-yard touchdown reception during the first half of N.C. State's game against UNC at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C., Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. ehyman@newsobserver.com Not everything is always black and white. One or the other.
November isn't just for basketball. NC college football teams enter final month with hope
North Carolina coach Mack Brown acknowledges the student section as he leaves the field following the Tar Heels' 42-24 victory over Pitt on Saturday, October 29, 2022 at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. rwillett@newsobserver.com The state of college football in North Carolina entering November brings to mind a humorous meme. Perhaps you've seen it on Twitter, or elsewhere. It's the one with an elderly-looking man getting held up near his car.
Duke volleyball players ‘racially heckled’ by BYU fans in ugly incident during match
Brigham Young University banned a spectator from attending events at any of its athletic venues after an incident in which racial slurs were directed toward Black Duke players during a volleyball match on its campus Friday night. In a statement issued Saturday, university officials said the banned spectator is not a BYU student but was sitting in the student section during the No. 10-ranked Cougars’ 3-1 win over Duke in Provo, Utah.
Duke volleyball players ‘racially heckled’ by BYU fans in ugly incident during match
Brigham Young University banned a spectator from attending events at any of its athletic venues after an incident in which racial slurs were directed toward Black Duke players during a volleyball match on its campus Friday night. In a statement issued Saturday, university officials said the banned spectator is not a BYU student but was sitting in the student section during the No. 10-ranked Cougars’ 3-1 win over Duke in Provo, Utah.
ACC is ‘closer to the end’ in conversations to do away with league’s football divisions
Whether it becomes official here this week during the ACC’s annual spring meetings or sometime in the not-so-distant future, the conference appears likely, sooner rather than later, to adopt a new football scheduling model that would abandon the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions. With the exception of the pandemic-altered 2020 season, the ACC has used a divisional model in football since 2005, when the conference grew to include 12 schools.
Football coaches and athletic directors from ACC schools had been meeting for about two and a half hours here on Monday when the NCAA, at last, released long-awaited guidance concerning name, image and likeness. The news spread quickly behind closed doors during the ACC’s annual spring meetings at the Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island. Coaches and ADs pulled the NCAA’s news release up on their screens.
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