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CORRECTION APPENDED CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Fake smile. Selfish. The next JaMarcus Russell. The slighting of Cam Newton going into the N.F.L. draft last April was anything but slight. Even though [...]

Tandems and tantrums, secret fines and public posturing have given Nascar's Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff its share of drama, culminating on Sunday with two drivers competing for the [...]

DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke was set to tip off last Dec. 29 against North Carolina-Greensboro, a team that had virtually no chance of knocking off the Blue Devils, who were [...]

DURHAM, N.C. - In June, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski sat down together to tape a show for ESPN about ethics, integrity and [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- North Carolina basketball traditionalists apparently have an issue with their Tar Heels. Not the team. The uniforms. Nike has introduced a slightly new look for the team [...]

Jimmie Johnson hinted at vulnerability two races into the Chase for the Sprint Cup, as less-than-dominating finishes left him well behind the points leaders. Just as the doubts were raised, [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- If the N.B.A. lockout continues, it will have a significant impact on preparations for the 2012 Olympics, Mike Krzyzewski said Wednesday. Krzyzewski, the United States national team [...]

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- Cam Newton made his first pass as quarterback of the Carolina Panthers recently when he gave up trying to buy jersey No. 2 from Jimmy Clausen and [...]

With Sunday's prestigious Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway beginning the stretch run before September's Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff, the fortunes of two Nascar drivers connected by one [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Eugene Fuller came to Wake Chapel Church on Saturday to say goodbye to a bus driver named Lorenzo Charles, the one with the quick smile who made [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The moment George Springer had waited and worked and prepared a lifetime for came and went last Monday without celebration. There were no embraces or back slaps [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Connecticut sent Matt Barnes, its ace and newly selected first-round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox, to face the defending national champion South Carolina on Saturday [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Only a driver as beloved as Dale Earnhardt Jr. could deliver such an exquisitely agonizing finish to a race. Earnhardt took the white flag leading the Coca-Cola [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carl Edwards wanted a celebration to remember when he won the annual Nascar All-Star race May 21 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. So he turned his car onto [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- From mastery to mystery, no Nascar driver has taken more dramatic turns this season than Trevor Bayne. Bayne is the 20-year-old part-time Sprint Cup driver who stunned [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- With Kimi Raikkonen's debut Friday night in a Camping World Truck Series race, the trickle of drivers from Formula One to Nascar has now become a trend. [...]

Cullen Jones barely held off Josh Schneider in a 50-meter freestyle sprint in Charlotte, N.C., to earn the final spot on the United States team for the world championships in [...]

MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- Paul Menard may be the only Nascar driver with a Facebook page devoted to his facial hair. The Paul Menard's Sideburns and the Paul Menard Empire aren't [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The last time Duke and Michigan played in the N.C.A.A. tournament was the 1992 championship game, won by Duke for its second consecutive title. The Blue Devils [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A smile came across Kyrie Irving's face Friday afternoon as the final minutes ticked off in No. 1-seeded Duke's 87-45 blowout of No. 16 Hampton in its [...]

CHARLOTTE -- Duke opened the N.C.A.A. tournament Friday with a rout that would have been uneventful if it had not produced a significant milestone. The West Region game against No. [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The daily Bruce Pearl watch provided more compelling drama than anything else in Tennessee's sixth consecutive N.C.A.A. tournament appearance. And it created an air of finality Friday [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- As Duke begins its defense of the N.C.A.A. tournament title, Coach Mike Krzyzewski has chosen not to defend the Blue Devils' recruiting practices amid accusations that his [...]

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Kyrie Irving stood on the Greensboro Coliseum court in his Duke basketball shorts and sleeveless practice shirt, alongside his teammates but not among them. The Blue Devils [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- With a record number of lead changes, leaders and cautions from wrecks that took out some of the biggest names in Nascar, it was only appropriate [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Danica Patrick led a lap at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, a sign of progress that Patrick, Nascar's next great marketing hope, is getting up to [...]

Chad Knaus was sitting in his small, meticulous office one day last month, preparing for the Nascar Sprint Cup season and pondering the absurd. ''We have the ability to win [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The tears flowed freely a year ago for Jamie McMurray, a driver with a redemption story that played out on Nascar's grandest stage. He cried in [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Kurt Busch declared himself the favorite for Sunday's Daytona 500, and it was hard to argue after he won the first of two 150-mile qualifying races [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The Danica PatrickNascar experiment enters its second season on Saturday at Daytona International Speedway, with expectations tempered but hopes raised. Patrick, 28, the only woman to [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The 10th anniversary of the fatal crash of Dale Earnhardt at Daytona International Speedway will pass Friday without an official tribute as a lower-level Camping World [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A year after potholes led to embarrassing delays in the Daytona 500, a $20 million repaving job at Daytona International Speedway is helping to create another [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. crashed during practice at Daytona International Speedway on Wednesday, costing him the pole position for the Daytona 500 on Sunday. Earnhardt captured the [...]

The Nascar circuit makes its pilgrimage to Daytona International Speedway twice every year, visits that inevitably rank among the highlights of any season. But not for the racecar owner Richard [...]

If it is sometimes a burden to own the name Dale Earnhardt Jr., with all the pressure of expectations that comes with it, then it surely must be a challenge [...]

DURHAM, N.C. -- Four national championship banners hang from the rafters behind the north basket at Cameron Indoor Stadium, a lasting tribute to the success of the Duke men's basketball [...]

As the defending N.C.A.A. men's basketball champion and pre-eminent team in the Atlantic Coast Conference this season, Duke has been fixed in the national spotlight. But the prominence of the [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- For a team that has not finished above .500 since 2001, the Knicks reached a milestone of sorts Wednesday night. They have reached the starting point of [...]

HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- It took five years for the competition in Nascar to finally offer a real challenge to Jimmie Johnson's reign as the Sprint Cup champion. Who knows how [...]

Trash talk, some petulant whining and a points race unlike anything Nascar has seen in years has given the sport exactly what it desperately needs heading into the final race [...]

DURHAM, N.C. -- As the most valuable player in the N.C.A.A.'s Final Four, co-captain of the defending national champion and a leading candidate for player of the year in 2010-11, [...]

CONCORD, N.C. -- The head-splitting sound of 43 mufflerless stock cars circling Charlotte Motor Speedway at 190 miles per hour was partly eased by the protective headphones that Gil Martin [...]

CONCORD, N.C. -- Concession speeches have yet to be delivered in the 2010 Chase for the Sprint Cup, but an air of inevitability is beginning to hover over the Nascar [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carolina Panthers quarterback Matt Moore does not have the experience, the Super Bowl ring or the football pedigree of his Giants counterpart, Eli Manning. But when the [...]

CHARLOTTE. N.C. -- The second game of the rest of LaDainian Tomlinson's career began with a 20-yard burst. The Jets were pinned deep, with a third-and-13 at their 5, when [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Coach Rex Ryan decided to play the Jets' first-team offense only about one quarter against the Carolina Panthers on Saturday night. It was one quarter too much. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED When the green flag waved to start the Daytona 500 in February, marking the beginning of the Nascar Sprint Cup season, not a single rookie driver was in [...]

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. -- In the sometimes bland Nascar garage, at least one driver has dared to criticize the powerful, call out the untouchable, slap down the unbearable and catch the [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Pieces of Nascar's past have been scattered for decades in garages, ubiquitous racing halls of fame and team museums serving as unofficial historians for a sport that [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Tiger Woods wanted a return to normalcy when he arrived for the Quail Hollow Championship after a five-month odyssey of revelation and regret in his personal life. [...]