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By JOHN SWARTZ, Sports Writer
GREENVILLE — There’s just something scary about a man who wears a long-sleeve black T-shirt to an afternoon football practice in Greenville on a day when the 71-year-old heat record was shattered.
When the East Carolina football team took the practice field for the first time on Friday, ECU strength coach Mike [...]
There's been good reason why there's been such a long time between entries. I've either been too busy, too tired or not opinionated enough to post about something.
Well, I watched four athletes play their last game of their high school careers the other night. The team was in the playoffs, and, as they say, "All [...]
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Well, that’s one way to go. That’s obviously the philosophy of one R.A. Dickey, a pitcher with an 18.9 ERA for the Texas Rangers.
Dickey gave up six home runs while facing just 18 batters in his first start this season while trying his newest pitch — [...]
With his 0-4 performance today against the Cardinals, Jimmy Rollins’ consecutive-game hitting streak ended at 38 games. It’s a bit of a shame, too, as this one one of baseball’s more positive stories. During a season where Barry Bonds seems to be grabbing all the headlines, it was a breath of fresh air to see [...]
As the chase for No. 756 is under way, the Barry Bonds media-based entourage has reached new heights – much like his steroid-produced home run numbers. As I sat at work on baseball's first night of a full schedule, a 15-inch story (about 450 words) moved over the AP sports wire about his season's first [...]
