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The Duke–North Carolina Semifinal Is a Hoops Dream (And One Team’s Nightmare)

The stakes have never been this high for these bitter rivals … but 31 years ago, they almost were even bigger.

Sports Illustrated

A group of New Yorkers led North Carolina to ‘57 NCAA title over Wilt Chamberlain, Kansas

NEW YORK — Given the breadth of basketball talent to come out of New York City, the most from anywhere since James Naismith repurposed his peach baskets, it is, in many ways, a travesty that universities within the five boroughs have just one NCAA title.

Tribune News Service

Greg Cote: NCAA Final Four: Coach K on a ladder. Why is America rooting against the perfect ending?

MIAMI — There is one and only one perfect ending that can come out of this men’s NCAA Final Four, and it is Coach K up on a ladder just before midnight Monday, snipping pieces of the basketball net in his final game as Duke coach. (A falling tear will…

Miami Herald

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North Carolina U.S. House filings reach decade high

The filing deadline for candidates running for state or federal office in North Carolina was March 4. This year, 103 candidates are running for North Carolina’s 14 U.S. House districts, including 60 Republicans, 40 Democrats, two Libertarians, and one independent. That’s 7.4 candidates per district, up from 5.2 in 2020…

Ballotpedia

Republicans turn on Rep. Cawthorn as top NC GOP officials back his primary challenger

RALEIGH, N.C. — Three of North Carolina’s most powerful Republican elected officials are backing a primary-election challenger to U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Duke, UNC arrive in New Orleans and Final Four party begins ahead of historic meeting

NEW ORLEANS — It was a mostly quiet and gray Wednesday afternoon along Bourbon Street, the calm before the storm. No crowds packing the street between the sidewalks, at least not yet. No lines to get into the music joints or the bars, and plenty of room in the places…

Tribune News Service

Luke DeCock: Duke and UNC took different paths to Final Four, but they were both missing same thing

NEW ORLEANS — There was never anything inevitable about the collision course that Duke and North Carolina find themselves on, not this season at least. Historically, certainly the odds were that two programs of such longstanding and explosive success would cross paths at some point. If not now, someday.

Tribune News Service

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Macy's building NC distribution center, 2,800 jobs to come

Macy’s Inc. has announced plans to build a distribution and online order fulfillment center in central North Carolina that ultimately will employ 2,800 people

The Independent UK

NC Sen. Tillis adds to Republicans supporting Cawthorn rival

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has endorsed a state legislator over U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn in the upcoming Republican primary

The Independent UK

The Best Wins and Most Infamous Games of the Duke-UNC Rivalry

Before these two meet in the Final Four, we’re looking back at their unmatched history.

Sports Illustrated

North Carolina mother turned away from hospital gives birth in parking lot

Lauren Banks gave birth to her son between pumps four and five at a gas station parking lot in North Carolina

The Independent UK

Triumph Secures Contract Extension For 787 Cargo Door Actuation System

Triumph Group Inc (NYSE:TGI) facility in Clemmons, North Carolina, Actuation Products & Services, has extended a contract with a major European aerostructures provider to supply a Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) 787 Cargo Door Actuation System. Financial terms were not disclosed. Designed, integrated, qualified, and manufactured by Triumph, the product line complements a portfolio of cargo door…

Benzinga

‘I won’t bow to the mob’: Madison Cawthorn says he ‘won’t stop fighting’ amid scrutiny of orgies and cocaine comments

26-year-old Republican says ‘radical left, establishment, and media want to take me down’ with ‘relentless’ attacks

The Independent UK

Super Seniors Are All Over the Men’s Final Four—and Making All the Difference

Given the opportunity for the rare five-year career, players like Brady Manek, Collin Gillespie and Remy Martin are playing a unique role this March.

Sports Illustrated

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J. Cole is making a 'Gangsta Grillz' mixtape with DJ Drama

'D-Day' showcases the Dreamville Records roster and arrives a day before the Dreamville Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Daily Mirror

Man who murdered toddler in revenge attack killed in prison by gang of inmates

Semajs Short had been serving a 31-year sentence for the murder of toddler Dy’Unanna Anderson when he was killed by a group of inmates at the Bertie Correction Institution, in Windsor, North Carolina

Benzinga

Country Music Superstar Cancels Concert To Watch Duke Vs. UNC

Musicians cancel tour dates for various reasons including illness, death in the family, issues with venues or a worldwide pandemic. Have you ever heard of a musician canceling a tour date to attend a Final Four basketball game?

Sports Illustrated

Hubert Davis Repeated a Dean Smith Inspiration Tactic From His Playing Days

In his first year at the helm of the North Carolina program, Davis started the journey to the Final Four with the same approach as his former coach.

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The Independent UK

March Madness paying off for players under mishmash of rules

This week, Kansas, Villanova, North Carolina and Duke will play in the first Final Four to take place under the new world of “name, image and likeness” endorsements in college sports

USA Today Sports Media Group

Eric Church fans are rightfully furious after he canceled a San Antonio concert to watch Duke – North Carolina

Yes, this really happened.

Sports Illustrated

JJ Redick Says His ‘Inferiority’ Dig At North Carolina Was a Joke

The Blue Devils great-turned-ESPN analyst turned some heads ahead of Saturday’s Final Four showdown between the hated rivals.

Zenger

Comforting Tidal Marshes And Oak Trees Or ‘Thriller-Horror Film’?

This deserted tidal island was once bustling before severe storms ravaged it, slowly cutting through new inlets.

Tribune News Service

Luke DeCock: Why the Duke-UNC Final Four game is North Carolina’s biggest sporting event ever

RALEIGH, N.C. — This is the Big One, some 70 years in the making, the unthinkable and the unimaginable.

InsideEVs

VinFast To Invest $4B In New EV And Battery Plant In North Carolina

The site in Chatham County will build electric cars, buses and batteries, creating up to 7,500 jobs when the full capacity of 250,000 EVs a year is reached.

Tribune News Service

Bill of the Month: The case of the $489,000 air ambulance ride

Sean Deines and his wife, Rebekah, were road-tripping after he lost his job as a bartender when the pandemic hit. But while visiting his grandfather in a remote part of Wyoming, Sean started to feel very ill.

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