Brendan Haywood big on former hoops teammate Julius Peppers
Brendan Haywood and some of his UNC basketball teammates came up with a nickname the minute Julius Peppers stepped foot on the UNC campus. "We called him 'Features,' " said Haywood. "Just all of his features -- his heads, his hands, his feet -- all of them were so big." Peppers' bank account is rather large, too, after he signed a six-year contract with the Bears that carries a max value of $91.5 million.
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Skip Seagraves signs with Montreal Alouettes
Montreal Alouettes' Vice President and GM Jim Popp announced today that defensive end Gavin Walls and tackle Skip Seagraves have signed for one year and an option after both were recently released by the club. Seagraves has started 18 games at tackle since joining the Alouettes' in 2006, after five seasons with the North Carolina Tar Heels. He has also been involved in the Alouettes' community programs for the last two years.
(Our Sports Central)
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Carolina Baseball Monday Notebook
Nationally ranked North Carolina closes a 13-game home stand this week hosting William & Mary Tuesday and St. John's Wednesday. Both games are slated for a 3 p.m. start and will be at Boshamer Stadium. Carolina is slated to start sophomore right-hander Garrett Davis Tuesday against William & Mary. Sophomore right-hander Jimmy Messer will get the nod for the Tar Heels Wednesday against St. John's.
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No.12 Tar Heels Earn Series Sweep, Wallop Wolverines 9-1
Junior Colin Bates allowed one earned run in 5.2 innings of work to lead No. 12 North Carolina over Michigan 9-1 Sunday in front of 2209 fans at Boshamer Stadium. Bates improves to 3-0 on the season and is perfect in three career starts on the mound. Ben Bunting and Ryan Graepel each posted three hits and two RBI, as North Carolina improves to 10-1 on the year. Michigan falls to 4-7 after the three-game series sweep.
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Jim Young's All-ACC Ballot
Here’s a look at who I voted for on my All-ACC ballot, with a few explanations thrown in for good measure. Player of the Year: Greivis Vasquez. During the Duke game Dick Vitale finally “revealed” his choice for ACC player of the year. He proposed giving it to both Vasquez and Jon Scheyer. It was typical Vitale, an inclusive guy who would let in every team off the bubble if it were left up to him. It was also wrong. Vasquez is the clear choice here
(ACC Sports Journal)
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ACC Tournament seeds set
Duke will defend its ACC title as the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament. The Blue Devils will be the only Big Four team missing on Thursday at Greensboro. UNC is the No. 10 seed and will face No. 7 Georgia Tech at 7 p.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum. N.C. State is the No. 11 seed and will face the No. 6 Clemson at 9 p.m. Wake Forest took the No. 5 seed with Sunday's win over Clemson and will face No. 12 Miami at 2 p.m.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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Sprinter Marion Jones eyes comeback
Track and field superstar Marion Jones' bid to get her athletic career back on track brought her to Tulsa on Saturday for a workout with Tulsa Shock coach Nolan Richardson. Jones was stripped of five medals she won in the 2000 Summer Olympics after she admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs. Now, at age 34 and after giving birth to her third child just eight months ago, Jones is attempting an athletic comeback — this time in basketball.
(Tulsa World)
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Ejected fan back -- at Duke
Brian King – the Presbyterian supporter who now infamously got booted out of the Smith Center last December after screaming those words at North Carolina senior Deon Thompson during the Tar Heels blowout victory – was on the front row with the Cameron Crazies, cheering on the Blue Devils during Duke’s 82-50 blowout win. He was invited, he said, by the students.
(Charlotte Observer)
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No. 4 Duke Routs Struggling Rival UNC, 82-50
Kyle Singler scored 19 of his 25 points in the decisive first half and No. 4 Duke routed North Carolina 82-50 on Saturday night. Jon Scheyer had 20 points in his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the Blue Devils (26-5, 13-3), who earned their most lopsided home win over their fiercest rival. They shot nearly 46 percent - 51 percent in a dominant first half - and made eight 3-pointers in beating North Carolina at home for the first time since 2005.
(ACC Sports Journal)
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Lopsided swan song for UNC seniors
Fifth-year senior Marcus Ginyard sat alone at one edge of the visitors locker room in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Ginyard was barely audible even though he was surrounded by silence as he spoke. The veteran was on hand for North Carolina victories in each of the team's previous four visits to Cameron, but Duke rolled to an 82-50 win over the Tar Heels on Saturday night.
(Salisbury Post)
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Duke domination: Blue Devils rip rival Tar Heels, earn share of regular-season title
With around 90 seconds left in Duke’s showdown with visiting UNC on Saturday night, the chant started thundering through the Cameron Indoor Stadium. “Our house! Our house!” For the Blue Devils, the 82-50 thrashing of their arch rivals on their home floor had been a long time coming, and well worth the wait. No. 4 Duke ended a four-game winning streak by the Tar Heels in Durham in convincing fashion.
(Burlington Times News)
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Wiederer: Blue Devils definitely make a statement
As if North Carolina hadn't already gotten the point, Duke's Cameron Crazies wanted to make it perfectly clear. Less than two minutes remained Saturday night and the bleacher stomping adjacent to Coach K court grew louder than it had all night. And, believe me, that's saying quite a bit. "Our house!" came the chants, each one at a higher decibel level. "Our house! Our house! Our house!"
(Fayetteville Observer)
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Tar Heels shocked from start to finish in blowout at Duke
Will Graves must have been one of the most surprised people in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday night. The North Carolina player said he didn’t realize the magnitude of the whipping his team absorbed until his last look at the scoreboard. “The final score,” Graves said when asked when the severity of the 82-50 beat-down from fourth-ranked Duke set in.
(Burlington Times News)
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Blue Devils take out four years of frustration on UNC
Ever wondered what it looks like when four years of frustration against a hated rival get paid back all in one night? It looks a lot like what happened Saturday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke’s 82-50 humiliation of North Carolina wasn’t the worst beating the Blue Devils have ever put on the Tar Heels, though it came close.
(Wilmington Star News)
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Observations: Another injury for Tar Heels
With the way North Carolina's season is going, it was no surprise when the Tar Heels had a new injury for the regular-season finale. Freshman Leslie McDonald was in street clothes Saturday night because of a hamstring injury. He became the ninth Tar Heels player to miss at least one game with an injury. McDonald is averaging 3.6 points and 1.5 rebounds, and scored a season-high 16 points Feb.27 at Wake Forest.
(Charlotte Observer)
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Crushed at Cameron
No. 4 Duke ended rival North Carolina’s four-year reign at Cameron Indoor Stadium with a crushing 82-50 performance on Saturday night. The 32-point defeat marks the worst loss in Roy Williams’ tenure as UNC’s head coach. Duke’s “Big Three” – Jon Scheyer, Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler – each drained a 3-pointer in the opening 110 seconds of play to build an early 9-3 lead that foretold the night ahead for North Carolina (16-15, 5-11 ACC).
(Inside Carolina)
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UNC-Duke: Postgame Quotes + Audio
"There’s not a lot to say, except to congratulate Duke; they played very, very well. I’m not their coach, so Mike [Krzyzewski] can evaluate them better than I can. Early in the game, we didn’t want to give them open threes, then they make three of them in the first three minutes of the game. We had 15 turnovers that led to 27 points; that’s been a problem for us all year and it was again tonight."
(Inside Carolina)
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Lucas: Reliving History
Much like Custer eventually arrived at Little Bighorn, we'll eventually get to Saturday night's 82-50 shellacking by Duke. But to truly get a perspective on what the game meant, we have to go back further. Back before the recent two-game win streak. Back before the wins over NC State. Before Georgia Tech or Clemson or even Charleston. Here are some relevant quotes from the 2009-10 Tar Heels over the last four months--one from each month.
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Devils stomp Heels
Coach Mike Krzyzewski wasn't sure if any of his teams had ever done it before, but he seemed happy that they did. After humiliating rival North Carolina with an 82-50 stomping Saturday night, Duke's players cut down the nets at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Fourth-ranked Duke (26-5, 13-3 ACC) had captured a share of the ACC regular-season championship and the No. 1 seed for this week's ACC Tournament.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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For Ginyard, Heels, it was the worst
Marcus Ginyard said beating Duke on Saturday would have been one of his top memories - right up there with winning a national championship last season. But losing to the fourth-ranked Blue Devils 82-50 - the most lopsided defeat by the Tar Heels at Duke - has got to be the worst. "This is the first time that we've had to come in this locker room after a loss," said Ginyard, whose team will be the 10th seed in the ACC Tournament.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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Duke Stomps UNC
Duke captured a piece of the ACC regular-season title last night, and left nothing to question. Razor sharp and laser focused, Duke rolled to an 82-50 win over North Carolina in boisterous Cameron Indoor Stadium for its first win against North Carolina at home in five seasons. Duke trailed only once, led 53-26 at halftime, and was up 71-35 with 11 minutes left, building its lead after halftime behind the play of Brian Zoubek.
(Winston-Salem Journal)
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One 'nasty' rout leaves Heels at a loss for words
Fifteen seconds in Saturday's game between No. 4 Duke and North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Marcus Ginyard hit a free throw to give the Tar Heels the first point of the game. Turns out it would be the Tar Heels' only lead of the game and the closest the score would ever be. The Blue Devils then hit their next three shots -- all 3-pointers -- to go up 9-3 two minutes into the game, and the Tar Heels could never recover as Duke routed UNC 82-50.
(Durham Herald-Sun)
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Cameron Crush
Before the first media timeout Saturday night, it became fairly apparent which team would win the latest chapter in the storied series between Duke and North Carolina. So after a while, Duke students who never had experienced the thrill of a victory over the Tar Heels at Cameron Indoor Stadium settled in -- though they never settled down -- to watch the show and wait to see what the final count would be.
(Durham Herald-Sun)
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Zoubek, Ginyard on opposite sides of Senior Night
Duke's Saturday-night thrashing of North Carolina was a tale of two seniors. On one hand, there was Duke's Brian Zoubek. The 7-footer from Haddonfield, N.J., hauled in 13 rebounds as Duke clobbered the Tar Heels on his Senior Night. He went a perfect 4-for-4 from the field, and in the process, Zoubek helped exercise Duke of four years of losing to it's cross-town rivals.
(Daily Tar Heel)
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No. 12 North Carolina Baseball Earns Wild Victory Over Michigan 7-6
Freshman Chaz Frank went 3-for-4 with one RBI and two runs scored to lead No. 12 North Carolina over Michigan 7-6 Saturday in front of 1662 fans at Boshamer Stadium. The two teams combined for 24 hits and 26 runners left on base in the eventful game. Patrick Johnson (2-1) earned the victory allowing one run on six hits in six innings. Carolina improves to 8-1 and guarantees a series victory with the win.
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