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Reuters
6 days ago
- General
- Reuters
Report: UNC, Georgetown to begin home-and-home series in '25
May 28 - North Carolina and Georgetown basketball will play a home-and-home series beginning in the 2025-26 season, CBS Sports reported Wednesday. The first game is expected to be played in Chapel Hill, N.C., and scheduled sometime in December, per the report. North Carolina finished 24-14 in the 2024-25 season and was a controversial selection to the NCAA Tournament, where the Tar Heels defeated San Diego State in the First Four and lost to Ole Miss in the first round. Georgetown was 18-16 and played two games in the College Basketball Crown postseason tournament. The Hoyas lost to Nebraska in the second round. The Tar Heels and Hoyas have met seven times, with North Carolina holding a 4-3 edge. The teams played in the 1982 NCAA Tournament championship game, with legendary coaches John Thompson and Dean Smith squaring off. North Carolina, behind Final Four Most Outstanding Player James Worthy, won 63-62 in New Orleans. --Field Level Media
BBC News
21-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Loughgall's 2024-25 season in review
2024-25 league position: 12thPlayer of the year: Nathan GartsideLoughgall defied the odds in their first season in the Irish Premiership as they comfortably avoided relegation and finished season syndrome seemed to hit this year however and just five wins from their 38 games and the worst goal difference in the division of - 49, condemned them to relegation to the second Smith, the manager who had performed wonders to get Loughgall in the top- flight and keep them there, left in March not long after he was hit with a 15-game ban for breaches of the Irish Football Association's disciplinary code following the Villagers' 2-1 defeat to Glentoran in was replaced by former Dungannon Swifts boss Darren Murphy, who managed a win and a draw during the last five league games of the intentions will now turn to assembling a squad capable of coming straight back up again next season and he has already added experienced defender Dougie Wilson.2025-26 signings so far: Dougie Wilson (Portadown)2025-26 departures so far: Benji Magee (Larne, end of loan), Alberto Balde (unattached), Jamie Rea (unattached)
Associated Press
13-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Larry Miller, star on North Carolina's ACC championship teams in 1967-68, dies at age 79.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Larry Miller, a two-time ACC player of the year for North Carolina and 2022 inductee in the College Basketball Hall of Fame, has died. He was 79. The UNC athletic department said Miller died Sunday in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. No cause of death was given. An athletic department spokesman said Miller was in hospice care and dealing with medical issues for some time. Miller, a native of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, was a star forward on coach Dean Smith's first two Atlantic Coast Conference championship and Final Four teams in 1967 and 1968. He earned first-team All-America honors both seasons and was a consensus pick in 1968 along with UCLA's Lew Alcindor, Houston's Elvin Hayes, LSU's Pete Maravich and Louisville's Wes Unseld. Miller scored in double figures in 64 consecutive games, still a UNC record. Miller scored 1,982 points in three seasons and averaged 21.8 points, the fifth-highest by a Tar Heel. In one of his most memorable performances, he scored 32 points on 13-of-14 shooting from the field in an 82-73 victory over Duke in the 1967 ACC championship game. Led by Miller, Carolina went 70-21, including 32-10 in ACC regular-season play, from 1965-68. The Tar Heels were No. 4 in the final Associated Press polls his last two seasons, the first time Carolina was ranked in the top 10 in the final poll in consecutive seasons. Miller played seven years in the ABA and set the league's all-time single-game record with 67 points. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: and
BBC News
13-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Transfer Q&A: Where next for Vardy?
BBC Sport's football news reporter Nick Mashiter has been answering your questions on the transfer Surrey: Any rumours on where Jamie Vardy might go? Will he try to stay in the Premier League or will he go down to the Championship so he can be the 'main man'?Nick: Vardy will still be an asset for whichever club he joins this summer, given his experience and desire to keep scoring has got nine goals this season, perhaps outstripping expectation - especially in a team that has struggled to score - and he needs one more to reach 200 goals for Leicester, with just two games of his Foxes career enjoyed a good relationship with Dean Smith during his brief spell at Leicester, with the former Foxes boss now doing well with Charlotte in the was eager to sign Vardy last summer so don't be surprised if there is interest there, although you can rule out any links to 38-year-old will likely have to take a pay cut for his next move but there is a clear inner belief that he can still play in the Premier League.
National Post
12-05-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Ryan Fox chips in for birdie in playoff to win Myrtle Beach Classic over Mackenzie Hughes
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Ryan Fox of New Zealand chipped in from just outside 50 feet on the first playoff hole to win the Myrtle Beach Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, sending him back to the PGA Championship. Article content Hughes pulled his drive into the trees, had to pitch out and missed a 10-foot par putt for a 67 that put him in a playoff at 15-under 269 with Fox and Harry Higgs, who missed a 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th with a chance to win for the first time. Higgs shot 68. Article content Article content Going back to the 18th for the playoff, Hughes and Higgs found the fairway and each had decent looks at birdie. Fox went from the rough to the collar right of the green. He raised both arms when the chip dropped for birdie. Article content 'I had a really similar line in regulation and missed the putt right,' Fox said. 'My caddie, Dean (Smith), said to me, 'Remember, this doesn't break that much.′ So I just kind of aimed straight at it, and I hit the spot I wanted to hit. … To be honest, it never looked like it was going anywhere else, and the rest of it is a bit of a blur from there.' Article content Higgs and Hughes each missed their birdie putts. The 38-year-old Fox had won three times on the European tour, including the flagship BMW PGA Championship in 2023, and has climbed as high as No. 23 in the world. But he had yet to record a top 10 on the PGA Tour this year. Article content 'Very rewarding,' Fox said. 'I haven't transitioned probably as well as I would have liked over to the PGA Tour. It was a tough year last year. I managed to just keep my card. It's been a scratchy start this year as well. I always deep down felt like I could compete with the guys out here. Just haven't been able to put it together. I was very happy to do it this week and give myself a chance on Sunday was nice again.' Article content The PGA Championship was holding a spot in the field at Quail Hollow for the winner of the Myrtle Beach Classic. This will be Fox's fourth straight year playing the major. Hughes was already in the field.
