Roethlisberger suspension reduced | NEW YORK -- Ben Roethlisberger is getting time off for good behavior. | He'll be back on the field for the Pittsburgh Steelers two games earlier than expected after convincing NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell he is turning his life around. | The star quarterback, accomp...
Browns' Hardesty is lost for season | Browns rookie running back Montario Hardesty is out for the season after tearing a left knee ligament during his NFL debut. | Team spokesman Neal Gulkis said Hardesty is being placed on injured reserve. Gulkis confirmed Friday that the former New Bern High School and ...
Devils finally get Kovalchuk | The NHL has signed off on Ilya Kovalchuk's latest contract with the New Jersey Devils. | Five weeks after rejecting the Russian's landmark 17-year, $102 million contract with the Devils, the league approved a revised 15-year, $100 million deal on Friday after reaching...
Canes goalies add interesting twists to their workouts | RALEIGH -- Proving they're adaptable to change, and immune to any playful razzing from teammates, Carolina Hurricanes goaltenders Cam Ward and Justin Peters have added interesting twists to their off-ice exercise routines. | Ward has turned to Pilates. | Peters is int...
Johnson, Day lead way, but Woods struggles | Zach Johnson and Jason Day beat up on the course and beat the weather at the Deutsche Bank Championship. | For Tiger Woods, it was the other way around. | Johnson strengthened his Ryder Cup case Friday by rolling in putts from everywhere in easy scoring conditions ahe...
Fuquay-Varina rips West Johnston | BENSON -- Fuquay-Varina's proven ground attack continued to pump out the yards and points Friday night in a 42-7 victory over West Johnston. But it's the Bengals' defense that has coach Ryan Habich just as excited. | Fuquay-Varina's defense gave the Bengals' offense e...
Cary's Imps are piling up points | RALEIGH -- Through two games this season Cary had outscored its opponents by a combined 87-32. Friday night was more of the same. | The Imps scored a defensive touchdown and got two more on special teams to pummel Sanderson 31-0. | "[Cary's] a great football team," Sp...
Wakefield wins easily despite inconsistency | KNIGHTDALE -- Wakefield protected the ball, threw the ball well and worked the clock when needed to win Friday's game at Knightdale 31-0 and give the home team its second straight shutout loss. | On the other end of the ball, the Knights (0-3) suffered the effects of ...
UNC keeps 13 players home for opener | The investigations into possible misconduct by University of North Carolina football players transformed Friday into a full-fledged crisis for the school. | Thirteen players - including seven starters on UNC's star-studded defense - remained in Chapel Hill on Friday n...
Wake Forest-Rolesville keeps it simple in win The News & Observer| DURHAM -- The plays were not fancy, just simple ones based from an old football philosophy: If a team can't stop the same plays, why not keep running them? | That's how Wake Forest-Rolesville operated its offense in its 24-17 victory over Southern ...
Ole Miss' Masoli can play The News & Observer| OXFORD, Miss. -- In another surprising twist to a month-long saga, Mississippi quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has been cleared to play football just one day before the start of the season. | Three days ago, the NCAA ruled that the former Oregon quarte...
Temple tops Villanova with FG in final seconds The News & Observer| Brandon McManus kicked a 43-yard field goal with 8 seconds left to lift Temple to a 31-24 win over defending FCS national champion Villanova on Friday night in Philadelphia. | Justin Gildea scored on a 26-yard fumble return on the last play of the ...
Pack eager to start The News & Observer| RALEIGH -- In three seasons under coach Tom O'Brien, N.C. State has yet to win a season opener. | The Wolfpack fell at home to Central Florida in O'Brien's 2007 debut and dropped Thursday night games to South Carolina to open the 2008 and 2009 seas...
Byrd to be honored at Wolfpack opener The News & Observer| RALEIGH -- While celebrating the start of a new football season, N.C. State will take time tonight to celebrate the life of one of its biggest football stars. | And that's what Dennis Byrd's family wants it to be: a celebration, not a mournful mome...
Packers fall to Red Wing Post-BulletinTweet | 9/4/2010 1:27:23 AM By Ben Pherson | The Post-Bulletin, Austin MN | RED WING — Though the Austin High football team suffered an ugly 19-0 loss to Red Wing on Friday night, new coach Matt Schmit isn't ready to throw away the offensive playbook...
Expectations for football team are high at Colgate SyracuseJohn Berry / The Post-Standard, 2009 0 0 Share | When last school year ended at Colgate, quarterback Greg Sullivan’s real work began. | Sullivan hammered his computer keyboard and fired off emphatic e-mails along the chain of command to his tea...
Syracuse's Delone Carter will feel right at home facing Akron SyracuseFrank Ordonez / The Post-Standard 0 0 Share | Plenty of seats at the University of Akron’s InfoCision Stadium will be filled with Delone Carter fans tonight. After all, it’s a homecoming for the redshirt senior. | Carter was born 23 years...
