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The Icon Sting’s decorated career came to a fitting end in North Carolina at AEW Revolution
By Grant Golden March 11, 2024 Photo: Lee South / AEW This month marked the end of an era for professional wrestling, as the iconic Sting retired after nearly 40 years in the ring with his final match in Greensboro at AEW Revolution. Few figures...
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Panthers Offseason Preview: Morgan and Canales head into first offseason with some glaring needs
By Zach Goins March 6, 2024 Photo: Alex Cason / CLTure With the NFL season coming to a close last month and the Carolina Panthers new coaching staff and front office cemented, it’s time to turn the attention to the offseason. It’s no secret Dave...
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Hornets hire youngest lead front office executive in the NBA, Jeff Peterson, to head the franchise
By Chase Whitney February 29, 2024 (updated) The Charlotte Hornets are set to hire Jeff Peterson as the organization’s new Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. ESPN Sources: The Charlotte Hornets are planning to hire Brooklyn Nets executive Jeff Peterson...
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Charlotte 49ers expected to sellout Halton Arena for the first time in over a decade, looking to win eighth straight game
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...
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Now that Dan Morgan has been named the Panthers General Manager, who will be the next head coach?
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...
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In the midst of another hopeless season, the Hornets should get busy before the trade deadline
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...
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North Carolina natives Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler of FTR are among wrestling’s tag team greats
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.”...
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Eric Montross honored with emotional tribute at first home game at Dean Dome since his passing
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...
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Steve Smith Sr., Randolph Childress, and Bob McKillop among 2024 North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame inductees
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...
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With another LaMelo Ball ankle injury, Rozier, Miller and Washington will need to shoulder the load
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...
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