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
Major league teams have released hundreds of young players with the minor league season in doubt due to the coronavirus pandemic. …read more
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The NBA Board of Governors met again without a consensus opinion emerging on how many teams should be back on the floor for the planned late-July resumption of the pandemic-interrupted season, three people familiar with details of the call said Friday. …read more
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Raleigh native and PGA Tour pro Chesson Hadley joined The Adam Gold Show and talked about the testing procedures that the PGA Tour has put into place, gave his thoughts on families traveling, where his own game is and how fun it would be to wear a mic during the broadcast. …read more
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The Power Five conference commissioners are asking Congress to move forward with federal legislation regarding compensation for college athletes. …read more
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UNC released today a “roadmap” for a return to campus for its student-athletes, beginning on June 1 with certain facility workers returning and some football players returning as soon as June 12. …read more
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Every week, Lauren Brownlow answers your questions from Twitter in a weekly Mailbag to occupy everyone’s time during stay at home. This week, she gets into another broadcast event that could have athletes from a sport try another one a la The Match, one chip for the rest of time and why did she dye her hair purple? …read more
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Bob Holliday has noticed an increase in traffic of walkers and runners as everyone is looking to get out of the house during the stay at home orders. He shares his personal journey as a runner that dates back to 1974. …read more
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Chase Elliott’s streak of bitter defeats in NASCAR’s frantic first push of rescheduled races finally ended with his first Cup victory of the season. …read more
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At least 10 major league franchises have informed minor leaguers they will continue to provide allowances after the May 31 expiration of Major League Baseball’s policy guarantying those players $400 per week. …read more
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Zack Adams, Kyle Morton, and Joel Bryant did a deep dive into the four conferences in the northeastern part of North Carolina. Discussion includes Northeastern, Tarboro, Holmes, Northampton County, North Edgecombe, Hertford County, Pamlico County, Currituck County, and more. …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")
