- Jesse Jones
I love the transition times, take the normal excitement and double it.
Transition times always have overlap. The winter sports season is headed down the homestretch while the spring sports season is cranking it up, getting ready to go. The excitement comes from the biggest playoff games which will happen on the [...]

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Wilmington’s biggest rivalry has everything on the line Friday night. Two teams, one goal.
Let’s face it, we aren’t exactly a sports city. Minor league baseball struck out, although a nice new ball park down by the River wouldn’t hurt the effort. The Hammerheads had their best season in years, but the future [...]

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The high school soccer season is one to watch this year. There doesn’t appear to be a clear cut dominant force, rather four powerful squads in Wilmington, all with an eye on the Mideastern title.
In scanning the state’s top 15 poll, you won’t find New Hanover, Laney, Ashley or Hoggard… they aren’t even in [...]

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- Jesse Jones
Lumberton beat Laney on Monday night and the trend continued. It has been a tough opening phase of the schedule for the local boys on the football field this fall, but as the weather cools and we head into conference play, the rivalries only heat up.

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- Jim Clark (-Jesse Jones) And the winner is
While Week 1 of the NFL season went pretty much as I expected, (duh it went as you expected, this is the Cape Fear Sports Report, best sports website in Wilmington, you better know what you’re talking about) (too bad Week 2 didn’t go as expected, [...]

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- Jim Clark (-Jesse Jones)
While Week 1 of the NFL season went pretty much as I expected, (duh it went as you expected, this is the Cape Fear Sports Report, best sports website in Wilmington, you better know what you’re talking about) I was disappointed in a few teams. The Baltimore Ravens had too [...]

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By Jesse Jones
Some Sunday morning randomness… some questions I have, and an answer I got.

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Highlights and scores from Friday, September 4.

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- Jesse Jones
Things that make you go hmmm… courtesy ESPN.
Wednesday night it was New York vs. Texas playing some good old hardball on ESPN and New York vs. Texas playing some good old hardball on ESPN2. Interestingly though, while it was NY vs. TX in both games, the Yankees and the Rangers were on [...]

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Tonight is the season opener for most of the area teams. Three of the four Wilmington schools are on the road, with Laney the sole home game. The Bucs will host Jacksonville.

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The visiting teams took it to the home teams Friday night as they swept the five scrimmages during the BB&T Jamboree at Legion Stadium.

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UNCW’s Bobby Leeper, Daniel Cropper and Thomas Pope were named to the Coastal Plain All-Star rosters this week and will play in the midseason classic on July 20 in Wilmington, N.C., at Legion Field, the home of the Wilmington Sharks and Daniel Cropper.
Cropper stayed in Wilmington after UNCW’s season concluded to play for the Wilmington [...]

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Nike has built an empire with successful advertising. There are other brands that put out sneakers and apparel that are comfortable and good looking, yet it is Nike that has been on top of the industry’s ladder for decades.  But this time, it was more like Nike Airror.

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4 Local Stories - Hammers, Sharks, a fishing tournament, and surfing… quite a coastal feel.
1 Jeer - Tiger-Golf.  Federer-Tennis.  Lance-Cycling.  Phelps-Swimming.  The media gets this week’s jeer for totally ignoring the most dominant person in their sport and not even mentioning him in the discussion.
1 Cheer - NASCAR for starting something long overdue.

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By Jesse Jones
It’s our birthday, everyone in the good ol’ U.S. of A. As a tribute to America’s pastime, I put together the best baseball team I could field, selecting ballplayers based on a few simple rules…
1. Can’t have been ’suspected’ as a juicer… there is no Barry Bonds on this team.
2. [...]

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