By Ted Jurnigan, The Raleigh Telegram CHAPEL HILL – Carolina fans were heartbroken on Wednesday night as the Duke Blue Devils somehow clawed their way back from a deficit in the second half of their game against the UNC Tarheels at the Dean Dome. Despite trailing throughout the entire second…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Carolina Hurricanes, the National Hockey League team recently signed defenseman Tim Gleason to a four-year contract extension that will provide the player with a cool $16 million over the life of the contract.. The team says they will pay Gleason $3.5…
By Parke Brewer, Voice of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram INDIANAPOLIS – The New York Giants are this season’s champions of American football, beating the New England Patriots in the NFL’s Super Bowl XLVI by a score of 21-17, played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. These same two…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – It’s too bad that sports reporters and historians at Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters are not reading the book “ACC Basketball.” This UNC Press book by Sam Walker was published last year and chronicles the game during the conference’s first 20 years. On…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Carolina Hurricanes, announced today that they have made a trade with the New Jersey Devils. The National Hockey League team has acquired defenseman Joe Sova and the New Jersey Devils’ 2012 fourth-round draft pick from the Devils in exchange for forward Alexei Ponikarovsky.…
By The Raleigh Telegram STATE COLLEGE, PA – Joe Paterno, the famed football coach who led the Pennsylvania State program for 46 years, has passed away due to complications from lung cancer, his family said on Sunday morning. Paterno had been diagnosed with cancer last year shortly after being forced…
By The Raleigh Telegram One of the Carolina Hurricanes’ most popular players and highest scores is returning to the hockey team’s lineup after recovering from an injury. In a statement to the press, Jim Rutherford, president and general manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, said that the team has…
By The Raleigh Telegram, From NC Hall of Fame RALEIGH – The 2012 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame will be inducting eight new members later this year including Wilt Browning, Wray Carlton, M.L. Carr, Sam Esposito, Dr. Jerry McGee, Kristi Overton Johnson, Lennie Rosenbluth, and Henry Trevathan. They will…
By Cathy Elliott, Special To The Raleigh Telegram CHARLOTTE – We’ve all grown accustomed to seeing busy UPS and FedEx personnel around NASCAR garage areas, but the bright red mailbox in the corner of a particular motorhome lot at Homestead-Miami Speedway seemed especially overstuffed. A few racing folks, it seems,…
File photo by The Raleigh Telegram. The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has acquired defenseman Jaroslav Spacek (YAHR-roh-slav SPAH-chehk) from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for defenseman Tomas Kaberle. Spacek started with the…
