Randy Young - Recreation:Trail runners know that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. But that route may not be the most scenic, the most rewarding, or the most enlightening. There's a lot to be gained from a roundabout route.
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Eddy Landreth - Viewpoint North Carolina officials have long wanted to move the traditional season-ending football game between Duke and UNC to an earlier point on the schedule.
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
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Tori Helpingstine and Hannah Kimbrough of Chapel Hill High School won the NCHSAA tennis doubles championship last weekend, helping one cap her high school career and the other to take something special with her when she leaves later this year.
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
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Results from local sports
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
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ACC Football
3:30 p.m., Saturday, at Kenan Stadium
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network
TV: ESPNU
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
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YMCA Basketball: Parents can still register their children for the local YMCA's winter basketball season, with age-group divisions that include Pre-Kindergarten, grades K-1, 2-3, 4-5 and 6-8.
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
NOVEMBER 4
Published: Nov. 4, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Issac Marsh seems to pride himself on his poker face. But he couldn't mask his deep feelings about bidding farewell to the Class of 2010 after the Tigers downed Southern Vance.
Published: Nov. 1, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
North Carolina has a lot of football left to play, but the Tar Heels may well have drawn the blue print for how one saves a football season.
Published: Nov. 1, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
East Chapel Hill's Wildcats scored in first minute in Monday's match at Chapel Hill -- the season-finale for both teams -- and then made it hold up as they became the first NCHSAA school to down CHHS in field hockey this season.
Published: Nov. 1, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Chapel Hill downed conference rival Southern Vance last Thursday to advance into this weekend's sectionals of the NCHSAA 3-A volleyball tournament.
Published: Nov. 1, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
A look at the week's sports calendar.
Published: Nov. 1, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
The Bouncing Bulldogs will host their Rope Skipping Workshop and International Jump Rope Spectacular on Nov. 27 at East Chapel Hill High School. Plus other notes from area recreation groups.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Randy Young - Recreation: Obviously, speed has a lot to do with running a successful race. Grit, determination and stamina are all good, but first and foremost -- speed.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
NCHSAA Volleyball: The NCHSAA 3-A East volleyball quarterfinals Thursday will be an entirely Carolina-Six affair: Carolina No. 2 seed Chapel Hill (23-5) will host No. 3 seed Southern Vance (18-11), and Carolina Conference champion Cardinal Gibbons (21-1) will host No. 4 seed Orange (19-9).
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 12:42 PM | Full story
The inaugural Bill Thorpe Golf Classic debuted Monday at the Chapel Hill Country Club, with plans to help raise funds to improve student nutrition.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 10:45 AM | Full story
Field Hockey: East Chapel Hill became the first NCHSAA school to down arch-rival Chapel Hill in field hockey this season.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 4:01 PM | Full story
Viewpoint - Eddy Landreth: Not many teams win a national championship and then come back the next season expected to do just about as well. Then again, not too many come back with the biggest front line this side of the NBA.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Chapel Hill volleyball advanced to Tuesday's second round of the NCHSAA 3-A playoffs with a 3-0 sweep last weekend of Union Pines. The Tigers won 25-6, 25-15, 25-15 at home.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Chapel Hill (4-5 overall, 2-1 Carolina 3-A) qualified for a state playoff spot with its fourth win overall and moved into second place in the Carolina-Nine 3-A Conference with its 27-20 win at Oxford Webb.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
A calendar of area sporting events.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
At Blacksburg, Va., Lane Stadium (66, 233)
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Before this season, East Chapel Hill hadn't defeated its cross-town rival in soccer in five years.
Published: Oct. 25, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Viewpoint- Eddy Landreth: Facing an uphill fight at Va. Tech, Carolina won't back down just because it fell short against Fla. State
Published: Oct. 25, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
East Chapel Hill's Carolyn Baskir repeated last week as girls' champion of PAC-6 conference cross-country, while CHHS swept the Carolina-6 meets and Carrboro won the Carolina-9.
Published: Oct. 25, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Prep Football 2009: The Carrboro Jaguars got yet another moral victory on Friday night, but this wasn't the time for one.
Published: Oct. 25, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
A look at the week's upcoming sports events.
Published: Oct. 25, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
FLORIDA ST. 30, NORTH CAROLINA 27
Published: Oct. 25, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Randy Young - Recreation: "Shock and awe" was the strategy of overwhelming force employed against Iraq. Some of the new "boot camp" style workouts that are coming to fitness centers may shock some bodies into action.
Published: Oct. 21, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
Game Day: The Tar Heels will host always formidable Florida State at 8 p.m. Thursday night in an ACC game telecast nationally by ESPN.
Published: Oct. 21, 2009 2:00 AM | Full story
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East Main wins title
No. 2 seed 300 East Main Street avenged an earlier loss to top-seeded Cozart-Seagroves and won the fall championship of Carrboro Co-Rec Softball with back-to-back victories Tuesday night at Anderson Community Park.
See this weekend's Chapel Hill News for more.
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