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Braves Snap Six-Game Skid with 5-1 Win over Wingate

Braves Snap Six-Game Skid with 5-1 Win over Wingate

The UNCP baseball team ended their six-game losing streak and got their record back to .500 when they defeated the Bulldogs of Wingate University on Sammy Cox Field on Feb.27. The team tasted victory for the first time in nearly two weeks thanks to a collective effort from their pitching staff coupled with two multi-run innings. “We knew we were going to the bullpen the whole day out…It was good to see them go out there and throw strikes and get ahead of guys and play somewha

Will Lincoln Riley Finally Be Lured to the NFL in 2020?

Over the past two years the last two winners of the Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award given to the best player in all of college football, has been a quarterback from the University of Oklahoma. The 2017 recipient was Baker Mayfield, who threw for 4,627 yards and 46 touchdowns to just six interceptions and went No.1 overall to the Cleveland Browns in the 2018 draft. This past year’s recipient was the quarterback that succeeded Mayfield was the electrifying Kyler Murr

Is Witten’s Return from Retirement Really About a Ring More than Anything?

After a year away from the sport and a season spent as an analyst for Monday Night Football, Dallas Cowboys future Hall of Fame tight end Jason Witten officially announced his return to the gridiron on Feb.28 for his 16th season. Witten initially retired from the league last offseason on May 3rd, 2018. He held an emotional press conference with his head coach, front office officials and longtime friends and teammates in attendance. Less than a year into his hiatus from the pl

NFL Draft Talk Volume VIII

As the NFL draft draws closer and closer here are some questions that are circulating that pertain to prospects and their draft stock as well as their potential and projected impacts at the next level. What prospects can boost their stock the most with a good outing at the Combine? All eyes in the football world will be converged on the 300 plus prospects that will be putting their physical skills on the field in the confines of Lucas Oil Stadium this weekend for the NFL Scou

NFL Draft Talk Volume VII

As the NFL draft draws closer and closer here are some questions that are circulating that pertain to prospects and their draft stock as well as their potential and projected impacts at the next level. How helpful or harmful is a prospect’s showing at the combine on his draft stock? The NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium will be the epicenter of the NFL world over the weekend as hundreds of NFL scouts and executives will gather to watch up to 335 NFL ho

Ole Miss Student Athletes Take a Stand By Taking a Knee

Eight members of the Ole Miss men’s basketball team took a stand against racial bigotry and intolerance during the national anthem prior to their home game against the Georgia Bulldogs on Feb.23. They did so in protest to a Confederate hate group rally by the Confederate 901 and the Highwaymen that was underway on their campus during their game. These players expressed their frustrations and disgust that these ignorant individuals stir within them and around their campus duri

History Shows Mobile Quarterbacks Aren’t More Susceptible to Injuries

Prior to the 2012 NFL season, the injury risks that quarterbacks incur when they take off and run wasn’t as lamented upon or dissected as it is nowadays. Earlier that year Heisman winning quarterback Robert Griffin III was taken with the second overall pick in the draft out of Baylor University. Griffin was taking the league by storm his with his tremendous dual-threat ability that the league had not seen since the Michael Vick experience that graced the gridiron in the 2000s

The Carolina Panthers’ Youth Movement On Defense Continues

The Carolina Panthers were one of the hottest teams in the league over the first half of the season and were sitting pretty at 6-2 before a brutal 52-21 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in week 10 in a Thursday night game sent their season in a downward spiral. They would go on to lose six of their last seven games that, with the Steelers’ game included, saw them drop seven straight contests until the final week of the season when they beat the Saints handily 33-14 but New Orl

NFL Draft Talk Volume VI

As the NFL draft draws closer and closer here are some questions that are circulating that pertain to prospects and their draft stock as well as their potential and projected impacts at the next level. Is the next Aaron Donald in this year’s draft? The strength of this year’s draft class is predominantly on the defensive side of the ball and along front seven especially. The defensive line, in particular, is a position of great strength and depth from the top of the draft thr

NFL Draft Talk Volume V

As the NFL draft draws closer and closer here are some questions that are circulating that pertain to prospects and their draft stock as well as their potential and projected impacts at the next level. What will the Raiders do with their three picks in round one? The Oakland Raiders have three picks in the first round of this year’s draft, most but any team, as they hold the fourth, 24th and 27th overall selections in the opening round. They have a plethora of needs on both s

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