By Hunter Bailey February 2, 2024 Photo: Nell Redmond / AP Halton Arena is expecting its first sellout crowd since the 2012-13 season this weekend as the Charlotte 49ers are turning over a new leaf under first-year head coach Aaron Fearne. Riding a seven-game winning...
By Jeremy Grandison January 23, 2024 (updated) Photo: Kurt Shackelford / CLTure The Charlotte Hornets have agreed to trade Terry Rozier to the Miami Heat for a future first-round pick and Kyle Lowry. The Hornets will land Lowry and a 2027 protected first-round pick, which could...
By Zach Goins January 23, 2024 Photo: Brian Westerholt / AP The Carolina Panthers made the first steps towards a new era of football naming former linebacker Dan Morgan the franchise’s new president of football operations and general manager. Morgan, Carolina’s first-round draft pick in...
By Chase Whitney January 18, 2024 For the second straight year, Hornets fans are faced with an unfortunate reality feared by all NBA fans. Only halfway through the season, we’re in the throes of another lost season. Still enduring a spell of injuries worse than...
By Grant Golden January 11, 2024 There’s an inextricable connection between professional wrestling and the South. From generation to generation, week in and week out, kids and adults alike have gathered around the television to suspend their disbelief and soak up hours of “sports entertainment.”...
By Jeremy Grandison January 12, 2024 Hornets Sports & Entertainment have announced plans to renovate Spectrum Center with transformational upgrades scheduled to begin this year. The city of Charlotte approved a $215 million budget to renovate the arena back in 2022 with an additional $60...
By CLTure December 30, 2023 The Carolina Tar Heels honored the late Eric Montross, who passed away on December 17 at the age of 52 after a battle with cancer. The UNC basketball legend who won a national championship in 1993 under coach Dean Smith...
By CLTure December 19, 2023 The North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame announced its 2024 induction class honoring Panthers legend Steve Smith Sr.; Wake Forest basketball great Randolph Childress; former Davidson basketball coach Bob McKillop; UNC Asheville women’s basketball star Sheila Ford Duncan; Charlotte-born Emmy...
By Jeremy Grandison December 10, 2023 The Hornets have a 2-3 record since LaMelo Ball went down with an ankle injury. The team’s recent flurry of injuries has forced head coach Clifford to mix and match lineups in hopes of manufacturing production from the end...
By Chase Whitney December 3, 2023 Photo: Kurt Shackelford / CLTure It barely took a month, and the one issue Hornets fans were hoping to avoid in the 2023-24 season has already resurfaced– LaMelo Ball is sidelined with an ankle injury. Though it appears this...