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SportsCHARLOTTE, N.C. — The smallest player in NBA history is getting one of the biggest honors the Charlotte Hornets can give. The team said Tuesday that the No. 1 worn by Muggsy Bogues will go up in the rafters during a halftime ceremony on Feb.…
From HERE ClemsonCLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson men's basketball starts the games that count on Monday, Nov. 2, when Stetson visits Littlejohn Coliseum for a 7 p.m. tip. Brad Brownell's Tigers head into the opener unbeaten in the preseason. They edged Georgia 82-80 on Oct. 23 and then…
From HERE ClemsonCLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson junior defensive tackle Hevin Brown-Shuler has wrapped up his cancer treatment and is setting his sights on a return to the field. Doctors found a mass in his chest during offseason workouts in May, and it turned out to be Hodgkin…
From HERE ClemsonCLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson men's basketball wrapped up its exhibition schedule unbeaten Wednesday night, pulling away from Presbyterian for an 84-70 victory at Littlejohn Coliseum in Clemson. Guard Ace Buckner paced the Tigers with 21 points and five assists. Dylan Faulkner was close behind at…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Dream host Golden State in Game 6 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday, with a 12:30 p.m. ET start at State Farm Arena, a workday tipoff the team’s owners have publicly blamed on the league. In a letter to fans…
From the HERE City National DeskRALEIGH, N.C. — NC State will put up the money, facilities and NIL backing its next football coach needs, according to a letter to fans released Wednesday under the names of Boo Corrigan, the athletics director, and Chancellor Kevin Howell, days after the school fired…
From the HERE City National DeskGREEN BAY, Wis. — Two teams coming off losses meet Thursday night at Lambeau Field, where the Carolina Panthers try to stay above .500 against a Green Bay Packers club that has its own list of injuries to manage. Carolina arrives on a short week…
From the HERE City National DeskIRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference on Wednesday hit UCF with a $100,000 fine after a group of Knights fans aimed chants at BYU and its sponsoring Latter-day Saints church before last Saturday’s football game in Orlando, which UCF won in overtime. The league…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley has given up his ownership stake in Polymarket, saying NFL rules no longer let players hold a piece of prediction-market companies. Barkley said the league briefs players ahead of every season on which endorsements and investments…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK, N.Y. — With the World Series decided, Major League Baseball moved into its offseason Thursday, and the calendar between now and December is packed because a labor shutdown could stop the hot stove cold. Players with at least six years of service became…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — Ernie Johnson, the host who has anchored Inside the NBA since 1990, said Wednesday that the 2026-27 season will be his last at the desk. Johnson, 70, shared the decision in a video on social media and stressed that it was his…
From the HERE City National DeskPHOENIX, Ariz. — Phoenix’s first turn hosting the NCAA Women’s Final Four pumped $71.5 million into the Arizona economy, researchers at Arizona State’s Seidman Research Institute concluded. The results were released Wednesday. Researchers surveyed out-of-state fans in person at the April 3 and April 5…
From the HERE City National Desk
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Alphabet shares were down about 11% before the opening bell Thursday after the Google parent fell short of Wall Street forecasts on both sales and profit for the first time in nearly four years and reported that its massive artificial intelligence buildout pushed free cash flow…
From the HERE City National Desk
WASHINGTON — Filling a trick-or-treat bowl costs noticeably more this year. Federal price data show candy and gum up 7.7% from a year ago and more than 18% over two years, a faster climb than food prices overall. Chocolate is the main driver. Poor weather in cocoa-growing regions of West…
From the HERE City National Desk
WASHINGTON — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is cooperating with law enforcement agencies in several countries, among them the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, after thieves drained about $6.3 billion in digital assets from its wallets, the largest crypto theft on record, according to a person familiar with the matter. Two…
Politics
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The state has started keeping a running tab on Charlotte's $650 million share of the Bank of America Stadium overhaul, and the first look shows only a small slice of that public money has gone out the door. North Carolina's Office of the State Auditor on Wednesday…
From the HERE City State Desk
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina voters who want to skip Election Day lines have until 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, to cast a ballot at an early voting site, and they may use whichever early site is most convenient within their home county. Early voting carries one perk Election Day…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One of the three constitutional questions on every North Carolina ballot this fall asks voters whether local property tax increases should be limited, but a yes vote would not by itself set a limit or shrink anyone's tax bill. On the ballot, the measure is described as…
From the HERE City State Desk
RALEIGH, N.C. — About 64,000 seriously ill North Carolinians, many of them cancer patients, will not have to clear an extra federal hurdle to stay exempt from new Medicaid work rules, after a federal judge on Thursday sided with the state and a coalition of others in a fight over…
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