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Arab News
40 minutes ago
- General
- Arab News
Defending champion Panthers head back to Stanley Cup Final with 5-3 Game 5 win over Hurricanes
RALEIGH, N.C.: Carter Verhaeghe broke a tie off a feed from Aleksander Barkov with 7:39 left and the defending champion Florida Panthers advanced to their third straight Stanley Cup Final, beating the Carolina Hurricanes 5-3 on Wednesday night in Game 5. The Panthers beat the Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference final for the second time in three seasons. The Panthers will face the winner of the Western final between Dallas and Edmonton, with the Oilers up 3-1 in that best-of-seven series to put them within a win of a rematch with Florida for the Cup. Sam Bennett added an empty-net goal with 54 seconds left by skating down a loose puck straight out of the penalty box after Florida had held up against a critical late power play for the Hurricanes. That capped a wild night that saw the Hurricanes jump to a 2-0 lead, then Florida answer with three second-period goals, only to see Carolina's Seth Jarvis beat Sergei Bobrovsky midway through the third to tie it at 3.
Associated Press
4 hours ago
- General
- Associated Press
ACC's new men's basketball scheduling model produces one NC State-UNC meeting, no Duke-Miami matchup
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Instate foes North Carolina and N.C. State will meet just once next year while Duke won't play the Miami team now coached by former Blue Devils assistant Jai Lucas in the Atlantic Coast Conference's reconfigured scheduling model. The ACC announced its second set of home-and-away partners Wednesday after announcing earlier this month that it would cut a 20-game men's basketball schedule to 18 as part of its efforts to boost the sport amid recent years of dwindling NCAA Tournament bids. The league had previously announced primary partners guaranteeing annual home-and-away matchups to create some protection for long-running series, such as famed rivals Duke and UNC or instate opponents Virginia and Virginia Tech. The second set of partners will change every year, while teams will play one game against 14 of the remaining 15 teams and miss playing one league school each year. The league's secondary partners for 2025-26: Boston College-Miami, California-Georgia Tech, Clemson-Pittsburgh, Duke-Louisville, Florida State-SMU, UNC-Syracuse, N.C. State-Virginia, Notre Dame-Stanford and Virginia Tech-Wake Forest. As for the Tar Heels and Wolfpack, they're separated by about a half-hour drive within the same area code, but the lone matchup this year will come on the Wolfpack's home court in Raleigh. That will mark the first time UNC won't have a home game against N.C. State since 1919 after a long history of playing twice per year. ___ AP college basketball: and
Washington Post
5 hours ago
- Business
- Washington Post
Prime Video's first NASCAR race averages 2.72 million viewers, younger audience
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sunday night's Coca-Cola 600 averaged 2.72 million viewers in Prime Video's first NASCAR race. The race, which was won by Ross Chastain , was the third-highest-watched NASCAR race this season not carried by Fox. FS1 averaged 2.89 million viewers for the March 16 race at Las Vegas and 2.84 million for Phoenix on March 9.
The Independent
5 hours ago
- Business
- The Independent
Prime Video's first NASCAR race averages 2.72 million viewers, younger audience
Sunday night's Coca-Cola 600 averaged 2.72 million viewers in Prime Video's first NASCAR race. The race, which was won by Ross Chastain, was the third-highest-watched NASCAR race this season not carried by Fox. FS1 averaged 2.89 million viewers for the March 16 race at Las Vegas and 2.84 million for Phoenix on March 9. Fox Sports had the first 12 races of the season, with eight being carried on FS1. Last year's Coca-Cola 600 on Fox averaged 3.2 million viewers. According to Nielsen, the audience for Sunday night's race peaked at 2.92 million viewers near the midway point. Prime Video's audience had an average age of 55.8 years, which is more than six years younger than the average median age of viewers watching NASCAR Cup Series races on linear TV (61.9). The 67-minute postrace show averaged 1.04 million viewers and peaked at 1.26 million. This was the first of five races that Prime Video will carry this season. ___
Travel Weekly
5 hours ago
- Business
- Travel Weekly
The Asheville Tourists
Arnie Weissmann Every two years, I get together with a dozen college friends and we rent a big house somewhere for a week, hang out, cook and explore the area. Last week, we gathered in Asheville, N.C. The decision to go to Asheville was made well before its devastating floods last September. We knew there would be evidence of the deluge but also that it was recovering. How important is tourism to Asheville? Its minor league baseball team is the Asheville Tourists, so named in 1915. At various times, it had other monikers -- the Moonshiners, the Redbirds, the Mountaineers, the Skylanders, the Orioles -- but fans kept referring to them as the Tourists. When its stadium was renovated in 1959, the owners wanted a rebrand and asked fans to pick the name. The vote went overwhelmingly to "Tourists." For a town with a metropolitan population of about 380,000, it punches well above its weight as a destination. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, recreation has long been an attraction, and I can attest that the hiking is superb. The arts have long played a role in its appeal, in part because nearby Black Mountain College, founded in 1933, was a magnet for faculty and students who would become influential in their fields: John Cage, Josef Albers, Merce Cunningham, Cy Twombly, Willem de Kooning, Walter Gropius and Buckminster Fuller, among others, spent time there. The college closed in 1957, but a passion for art never subsided in Asheville. The River Arts District, several blocks of galleries, isn't far from the banks of the French Broad River, which rose almost 25 feet after Helene dumped 14 inches of water on the city during a three-day period last fall. The lowest portions of the district haven't reopened yet, but the majority is up and running. Open galleries accommodate many artists whose space (and art) was lost. One sells playing cards imprinted with work that was destroyed in the flood. (Proceeds go to contributing artists.) The Asheville Art Museum is extraordinary. Its executive director, Pam Myers, was recruited from New York's Guggenheim and has built a collection that, while including Black Mountain artists and regional pieces from 1865 to the present, also features creatively curated contemporary exhibits and thematic galleries showing works from other areas. In the late 19th century, a Vanderbilt heir constructed the Biltmore Estate, then the largest privately owned home in the U.S., adjacent to Asheville. Frederick Law Olmstead was commissioned to design the grounds. It now houses a museum, two hotels (the Inn on Biltmore Estate and Village Hotel on Biltmore Estate), three restaurants, four gift shops and a winery. In downtown Asheville, there's a building that can be described in two words that may never have been previously linked: "stunning cafeteria." The S&W Cafeteria is an art deco marvel. A few blocks away is the Basilica of St. Lawrence, designed by architect Rafael Guastavino. Known for his innovative use of domes, the structure is constructed entirely of tiles and features the largest elliptical dome in America. Today, Asheville is renown as one of America's craft beer capitals and features 62 breweries. The largest, Hi-Wire Brewing, celebrated the reopening of its main taproom while we were in town. I chatted with co-founder and CEO Adam Charnack as, around us, craftspeople sold wares, a band played and clowns on stilts juggled. It seemed that half of Asheville turned out for the party. Charnack said parts of the property had been under 15 feet of water. "You gotta just move forward, right?" he said. "We believe that the things that bring us together are stronger than the things that tear us apart, and our mission is to make the things that bring people together. Not just for us but for the hundreds of displaced artists and the rest of the community. "The town lives and dies on tourism," he continued. "The infrastructure is here. Hotels are a steal and are laying out the red carpet, providing top-notch service. There are thousands of small, independent, family-run businesses that rely on tourism, and by coming to Asheville now you'll have a great experience that's equal to, if not better than, pre-storm. And support the community." Over the years, by accident or design, I have visited destinations that were in the recovery stage following a natural disaster: New Orleans after Katrina; Phuket, Thailand, after the 2004 tsunami; Puerto Rico after Maria; Acapulco after Manuel. My previous reunion with college friends was in Quebec City after smoke from wildfires had thinned visitation. I've found that what Charnack said is true: Places are often ready before visitors realize they are. The period between recovery and recognition has always provided an exceptional experience, both in terms of crowd reduction and the satisfaction that comes from helping a community get back on its feet. If clients who typically would travel abroad are now reluctant because of the changing geopolitical landscape, suggest a domestic alternative: suggest they be an Asheville tourist.
