What a weekend. Both good and bad.
We have our World Series now and how many Cleveland Indians fans are saying, “Wow, C.C. Sabathia going against Cliff Lee. Two years ago, that was an intra-squad game in Spring Training.” The Indians were in the news this week hiring Manny Acta as their [...]
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The World of Sports… According to Jim Clark
October 27th, 2009 · No Comments
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NL Stinks, Football or Football, Paulus Should Have Thrown an Airball
September 6th, 2009 · No Comments
By Jesse Jones
Some Sunday morning randomness… some questions I have, and an answer I got.
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I’m Ready for Some Football
August 20th, 2009 · No Comments
- By Jim Clark
The NFL pre-season is done with Week One and I can’t think of any previous one that had so much drama off the field. Brett Favre finally signed with the Minnesota Vikings, Michael Vick is now a Philadelphia Eagle and the Carolina Panthers came up with one of the most interesting [...]
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Casey Barth Ready For Full Time Duty
August 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Casey Barth was perfect on PATs last year in his freshman campaign at UNC, but shared FG duties with Jay Wooten, who has since graduated. This year, the job is all Barth’s.
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Gators Capture Second National Championship In Three Years
January 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Winning their second national championship in three years, the No. 2 Gators defeated the No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners, 24-14, in front of a record football crowd of 78,468 at the FedEx BCS National Championship Thursday at Dolphin Stadium.
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World Of Sports According To Jim Clark: When The Final Four Isn’t Really The Final Four
January 9th, 2009 · No Comments
In this age of overstating the obvious in hopes of drawing in a few more viewers, I am surprised the networks are pumping up this weekend as “The Conference Final Four” weekend. There are four teams left in each conference… next weekend would be the NFL “Final Four”.
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Last Fan Sitting Gets Season Tickets For 15 Years
January 8th, 2009 · No Comments
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest University today awarded the first four seats in the second year of the Football Seat Rights program to Bob Yakos, the winner of the Last Fan Sitting Contest which concluded Thursday morning at BB&T Field.
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Heels Come Up One Point Short Against WVU
December 28th, 2008 · No Comments
The North Carolina Tar Heels and West Virginia Mountaineers met at a sold out Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on Saturday and treated fans to a thrilling ball game. While the Heels may have had the majority of the fans in their corner, it was the Pat White show as West Virginia topped UNC [...]
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Wake Forest Too Much For Navy
December 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Junior QB Riley Skinner was named the MVP of the inaugural EagleBank Bowl and Alphonso Smith, pictured, broke the ACC interceptions record as Wake beat Navy 29-19 in the EagleBank Bowl. Skinner completed 11-of-11 passes for 166 yards and a touchdown and rushed seven times for 29 yards.
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Wake Forest’s Aaron Curry Wins Butkus Award As Nation’s Top Linebacker
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest senior linebacker Aaron Curry was presented today with the Butkus Award, honoring the nation’s top collegiate linebacker. Hall of Famer Dick Butkus and his son Matt presented the award during Coach Jim Grobe’s media luncheon on Tuesday.
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Atlantic Coast Conference Announces All-ACC Football Stars
December 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Parity was the theme throughout the season in the ACC, and the All-ACC selections reflect that. No team dominated, and most teams were well represented with a few players making first or second team… except Miami. The Canes, who used to put the most talented team on the field year after year, had ZERO players [...]
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Wake Forest LB Aaron Curry Named Lott Finalist
December 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest senior linebacker Aaron Curry, left, has been named one of four finalists for the fifth annual Lott Trophy. The other finalists are James Laurinaitis of Ohio State, Brian Orakpo of Texas and Myron Rolle of Florida State.
Curry, a 6-3, 247-pound strong side linebacker, leads Wake Forest with
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College Football: Texas On The Outside Looking In; Florida And Alabama Make It Official
November 30th, 2008 · No Comments
The newest BCS standings were released Sunday afternoon and despite pounding rival Texas A&M this weekend, Texas was passed by Oklahoma after the Sooners’ win at Oklahoma State.
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NC State Hammers Heels, Does Anyone Want To Win The ACC?
November 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
At this point, just about everyone in the ACC has “controlled their own destiny” at some point during the last few weeks. Just two weeks ago, UNC was in the driver’s seat, but after back-to-back losses, they could finish as low as fifth place in the Coastal Division.
Carolina isn’t the only team to lose [...]
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Wake’s Aaron Curry Semi-Finalist For Lott Tophy
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Wake Forest senior linebacker Aaron Curry has been named a semi-finalist for the fifth annual Lott Trophy.
The Lott Trophy is named after Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott and is given to college football’s defensive IMPACT Player of the Year. The recipient best exhibits the same characteristics that Lott embodied during his career including [...]
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Two ACC Schools In BCS Top 25
October 27th, 2008 · No Comments
Two ACC schools are in the BCS Top 25 this week. With their 45-24 win over Boston College, previously unranked UNC entered the poll at #21. Hakeem Nicks had three second-quarter touchdown catches and ran for a score in the fourth quarter.
Florida State was the big gainer of the week, as the Noles vaulted from [...]
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