The Capital Sports Report

The Atlantic Coast Conference will host the ACC Night of Legends on Friday, Dec. 6 at the Charlotte Convention Center. The signature event will recognize a Legend from each ACC institution as well as the 2013 ACC Football season’s award winners. The 2013 ACC Football Legends will also be honored during a ceremony at the 2013 Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship Game at Bank of America Stadium on Dec. 7….

Mike McCormack, who played an instrumental role in the expansion process for the Carolina Panthers and later became the team’s first president, died early Friday morning at the age of 83. McCormack was an advisor for Jerry Richardson’s efforts to bring the National Football League to the Carolinas during the six-year process to obtain a franchise, which culminated with the awarding of the team on Oct. 26, 1993. McCormack served…

Quoting a UNC professor who was a student at UNC in the 1980s, ESPN.com indicates that the Carolina Way in basketball has disappeared. Dr. Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld said under Coach Dean Smith, Tar Heel basketball was all about sportsmanship and selflessness. Colloredo-Mansfeld, who serves as the chair of North Carolina’s anthropology department, said he didn’t recognize what the Carolina Way embodied once he returned to Chapel Hill as a professor in…

Tickets for the Carolina Hurricanes’ American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate Charlotte Checkers’ two games in Raleigh will go on sale Thursday, Oct. 17, at the PNC Arena Box Office and via Ticketmaster. The games will be held on Friday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 16, at 1:30 p.m., and both games will see the Checkers playing the Abbotsford Heat, the AHL affiliate of the Calgary Flames. Prior…

Redskins Historian Mike Richman has written an excellent piece titled “Redskins Legacy: Team Of The South” on the Redskins history in the South, even mentioning the Triangle area. He quoted Hall of Fame receiver Charley Taylor, who said, “We spent a lot of time in North Carolina, and there were a lot of Redskins fans down that way. In cities in North Carolina like Raleigh and Durham, they loved the…

A recent Forbes Magazine article categorizes the Duke-UNC rivalry as merely friendly competition, apparently based on the academic cooperation between the two schools. The writer, an intern, states that the rivalry started on the basketball court. The Duke-UNC rivalry actually started with football, years before basketball. It was a bitter and sometimes destructive rivalry. The schools may be FRENEMIES, as the articles calls them, when it comes to academics but…