I was all geared up for a couple of Game 7s in the NBA this weekend. I was positive the Denver Nuggets would hold court at home and force a final game in Los Angeles on Sunday. I was hoping for a Cleveland upset in Orlando tonight to force a Game 7 [...]

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Leesville Road punched their ticked to the NCHSAA 4A Girls’ Soccer State Championship as they beat New Hanover Wednesday night 2-0.
Leesville came in ranked #1 in the state according to the latest EuroSportScoreboard.com poll, and they stayed unbeaten, improving to 23-0-3 on the season.

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Mr. T was the Chicago Cubs’ guest on Monday as he threw out the first pitch and led the singing of ‘Take Me Out To The Ball game’ during the seventh inning stretch at Wrigley.  After bouncing the pitch to home plate, he stepped to the mic…

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The Wilmington Sharks have signed four players from UNC Wilmington to the 2009 roster. Wilmington native, Allen King joins the Sharks, along with Daniel Cropper, Alex Hill, and Mike Rooney. The Sharks open their Coastal Plain League slate on Thursday at Buck Hardee Field in the Legion Stadium Complex.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. – Georgia State rallied from an 8-3 deficit behind the strong relief pitching of sophomore Theo Asher and four hits by senior Marc Mimeault to knock off UNC Wilmington, 12-10, to win the Colonial Athletic Association championship and the league’s automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament at Brooks Field on Saturday.

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None of the other teams in the Sectionals could match the soccer skill of the two Wilmington powerhouses.  Tied 2-2 at halftime Friday night, New Hanover, the #7 team in the state, tallied two goals during the second half and beat #6 Hoggard 4-2 as the two top ten teams met for a trip to [...]

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WILMINGTON, N.C. – UNC Wilmington advanced to the Colonial Athletic Association championship with a 5-3 win over top-seeded and nationally-ranked George Mason on Friday at Brooks Field behind the starting pitching of Daniel Cropper and home runs by Bobby Leeper and Alex Hill.
The Seahawks staved off elimination for the second time of the day and [...]

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Canes come home… Hammerheads return home too… NBA Playoffs heat up… UFC update… and Michael Vick is free, who said I cared?

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This maybe the biggest girls’ soccer game in Wilmington since…
Friday night, New Hanover, the #7 team in the state will travel across town to play #6 Hoggard in a game to advance to the state semi-finals.

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An unbelievable season has come to an end for the Laney Buc baseball team which was eliminated from the state playoffs by the number one team in the state on Thursday.

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Interleague play between the American League and the National League begins Friday, and while Peter Gammons seems a little bitter, I think I’m like most baseball fans… pretty pumped.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. –Will Palmer gave Georgia State a strong start and the Panthers fended off several UNC Wilmington challenges late in the game to move into the winner’s bracket game with an 8-5 victory in the Colonial Athletic Association baseball tournament on Thursday at Brooks Field.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. – Cody Stanley drove in five runs on three hits and lifted UNC Wilmington to a 7-5 win over Old Dominion with a grand slam in the seventh inning on Tuesday in game three of the Colonial Athletic Association baseball championship at Brooks Field.

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Elevated expectations, “what’ve you done lately” attitudes, and the press. These are just a few of the pressures an NBA player faces on a day to day basis of an eighty-two game season.

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TEAHUPOO, Tahiti (Tuesday, May 19, 2009) – Bobby Martinez (USA), 26, has taken out the Billabong Pro Tahiti presented by Air Tahiti Nui, defeating fellow Finalist Taj Burrow (AUS), 30, in clean three-to-five foot (1.5 metre) waves at Teahupoo.

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