Rocky Mount junior defensive end Keeshawn Silver, who was recently rated as a 5-star prospect by ESPN, has verbally committed to Mack Brown and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Silver is a member of the 2021 recruiting class. …read more Source:: High School OT
After two weeks of play, the same 2A programs that started No.1 in the preseason still lead the HighSchoolOT East and West softball rankings …read more
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The 16 teams that advanced to NCHSAA state championships don’t know if they’ll ever actually get to play in the game. These teams will not get to compete for the title. The opportunity to be crowned champion is not gone for the underclassmen of the team. …read more
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Bobby Mitchell, the speedy late 1950s and ’60s NFL offensive star for the Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins, has died. He was 84. …read more
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Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey, who played in the NFL despite being born without toes on his kicking foot and made a record 63-yard field goal, died late Saturday while struggling with complications from the new coronavirus, his daughter said. He was 73. …read more
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![The latest chapter of the storied series between North Carolina and Duke, while exciting, deserved a more just outcome. A few days have passed as sports fans have fumed or celebrated or just discussed the big game. Watching the game back – and reviewing the plays over and over – doesn’t change the outcome but it does give a clearer picture of what happened. When someone complains about officials’ calls, they are often bombarded with the theory that the bad calls even out in the end. When Duke traveled to North Carolina last Saturday, the calls didn’t even out and […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/DukeRoyWilliams-490x225.jpg "Officials’ calls didn’t even out in Duke’s win over Carolina")
![Danny Talbott, perhaps the best high school football player in Rocky Mount history, died early Sunday morning according to multiple social media accounts. Talbott, 75, has been suffering from cancer for several years. In 2018, Nash General Hospital dedicated a cancer center in his name. Talbott had been treated for multiple myeloma, a cancer of a type of white blood cell called a plasma cell. He had a stem cell transplant in 2011 at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center that showed great promise. Talbott led the Rocky Mount Blackbirds to state titles in baseball, basketball and football during his […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/dannytalbott-490x225.jpeg "Word circulates on social media that NC football great Danny Talbott has died")
![Clifton Barnes, the owner of CapitalSportsNC.com, has won a national award for writing for a series of articles on the website. CapitalSportsNC.com has now won awards four years in a row. The series of articles revolves around former University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith won an Award of Excellence from the DC area-based Communications Concepts through its 2016 Awards for Publication Excellence competition. John De Lellis of Communications Concepts says competition was intense as there were more than 1,600 entries with seven winners in the Writing Series category. Barnes was the only winner in the category from North […]](http://capitalsportsnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/CliftonBarnes2016capitalsportsnc-490x225.jpg "CapitalSportsNC.com wins national award for writing")
