Class of 2021 defensive lineman Keeshawn Silver posted on social media that he “will be playing both sports” at North Carolina, a reference to lining up for UNC football and also suiting up for Tar Heel basketball. Click here for more.
The number of N.C. High School Athletic Association member schools and student-athletes participating in sports continues to rise as school districts allow athletic activity to resume during the COVID-19 pandemic. …read more
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Week 6 of the NFL 2020 NFL season featured impressive performances by former North Carolina high school football players, some special teams highlights, and an injury to a key member of the Panthers defense. …read more
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ARLINGTON, Texas — The shortest and strangest season in Major League Baseball history will finish with a clash of coasts and contrasts. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays — big spenders and bargain hunters — will crown one region with an unofficial title no one saw coming: inter-sports champion of the pandemic era. …read more
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Patrick Mahomes didn’t mind taking a back seat to rookie Clyde Edwards-Helaire and the Kansas City Chiefs’ running attack. …read more
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Maybe Kyler Murray will lose a game on the home field of the Dallas Cowboys one of these days. …read more
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Kyle Larson can return to NASCAR competition next season following a long suspension for using a racial slur while playing a video game. …read more
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A World Series like no other opens Tuesday night with Clayton Kershaw’s Los Angeles Dodgers pursuing redemption, Kevin Kiermaier’s Tampa Bay Rays seeking acclaim and Major League Baseball relieved just to reach the championship of the pandemic-delayed season. …read more
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![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")
