While it doesn’t look like the NFL is doing well in its “parity drive,” a closer study shows it couldn’t be doing a better job.   In each conference, there are eleven teams with realistic shots at the six playoff spots up for grabs after Week 17.
Over the next four weeks, teams will either play themselves [...]

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There isn’t much to say here, but ouch. The Philadelphia Eagles looked like NFC Super Bowl contenders while the Panthers looked like a Pop Warner team Sunday as they pelted Carolina 38-10. Here’s the link to the highlights, but we have to say, you do so at your own risk… it aint pretty. [...]

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After cutting the lead to two on a touchdown and then tying the game with a two-point conversion, the never-will-be’s for the Giants topped the never-will-be’s for the Panthers on a late score. In Jim Clark’s words, the FedEx guys beat the UPS guys as the starters played in the first quarter, and the [...]

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It was the end of May 2007 when a dream came to a fruition. That was two years ago, when the first issue of the Cape Fear Sports Report began with a feature on the CAA Baseball Tournament and an interview with Ashley Baseball Coach Brian Stewart. Some 54 issues and over one [...]

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Oh what a great weekend. The Final Four is Saturday, baseball starts Sunday night, and on Monday, there is both.  

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CHARLOTTE – After 16 games in which so much went right, the Panthers’ season ended on a night where everything went wrong.  ”We picked a bad day to have a bad day,” head coach John Fox said.

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It will be Act II of a suspense thriller that began in October when the Carolina Panthers host the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC Divisional game Saturday night at Bank of America Stadium.  The two teams met in October as the Panthers survived 381 yards passing by Kurt Warner to win a come-from-behind 27-23 victory.

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NEW ORLEANS – With six seconds left, some Panthers couldn’t look.
Their division title and playoff fate rested upon the left foot of John Kasay - a foot that for so long this season had been perfect but in the past seven days had seen two kicks go astray - twice as many as he’d missed in [...]

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The frigid wind that blasted around Giants Stadium was painful, pricking exposed skin like a fusillade of needles.
The footballs that were put into play were hard, possessing the consistency of a cinder block when meeting hands, feet and anything else they struck.

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After completing the best home season in 12 years, the Carolina Panthers will try to carry their momentum to the road when they visit the New York Giants Sunday night at the Meadowlands   The Panthers completed their home schedule with an 8-0 record last week, defeating the Denver Broncos 30-10, and now will face a Giants team that [...]

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CHARLOTTE – The reasons the Panthers needed to defeat the Denver Broncos on Sunday were myriad — to preserve a home-field advantage, to maintain a lead in the NFC South, to remain in position to snatch the top seed in the NFC playoffs.

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The Carolina Panthers continue a most formidalbe December schedule Sunday when they host the high-powered AFC West-leading Denver Broncos at Bank of America Stadium.  The short-week contest for the Panthers comes after Monday’s 38-23 victory over NFC South rival Tampa Bay.

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CHARLOTTE – With first place, playoff positioning and the potential for home-field advantage all lying in uncertain balance on Monday evening, the Carolina Panthers turned to the most basic of plans — and to what they do best.
They ran.

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DeAngelo Williams, left, had a historical day Sunday, but the Carolina Panthers came up short.  With their four game winning streak now history after last week’s loss at Atlanta, the Panthers will try to begin anew in one of the NFL’s toughest venues when they play the Green Bay Packers Sunday at Lambeau Field. 

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After contrasting victories in the last two weeks, the Julius Peppers and the Carolina Panthers play NFC South rival Atlanta Sunday at the Georgia Dome in a pivotal divisional matchup.  The Panthers have been involved in shootouts and  standoffs recently, the last a 31-22 shootout against the Detroit Lions.  

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CHARLOTTE – With a 10-point deficit and the offense stalling on Sunday afternoon, the Panthers turned back to the ground … and turned on the power.
Six runs for 54 yards by running backs DeAngelo Williams, left, and Jonathan Stewart and wide receiver Steve Smith on Carolina’s first possession of the second quarter quickly aroused the Panthers’ [...]

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