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The Capital Area Super Senior 6.5 Men's Combo tennis team experienced the "Groundhog Day" effect when they faced off against a single competitor for the USTA State Championship, battling a feisty W...
While many athletes would not consider any approach to an Ironman triathlon as laid back, Melissa Davidian and Ian Twohig would not have run Ironman Switzerland any other way.
Sandwiched between the moment Kelly Whalen dipped a bicycle wheel into the Atlantic Ocean in Georgia and when she dipped her whole body into the Pacific Ocean in California was a six-week smorgasbo...
Cara and Chesley Greening would like everybody to know that the terrain in Iowa is not flat.
Becky LeDonne admits she moved from Chicago to Raleigh four years ago to play Ultimate Frisbee, and if a move like that doesn't mean she loves her sport, then there's not much more she can do to pr...
The old cliché says you can't teach old dogs new tricks, but two youth coaches, who really are not so old, did learn new lessons about sports, themselves and the will to play from unlikely sou...
Garrison Rountree is a believer. He believes in the power of mental toughness.
Family and friends don't call Kelley Burrows the "Energizer bunny" for nothing.
On June 19, Eric Johnson did something few people ever accomplish. He completed his quest to run marathons in all 50 states in the Union, plus Washington, D.C.
Grace Countie can't hear much when she's churning down the lane of a swimming pool battling for a win, but she sure can hear her coach shouting instructions and encouragement.
Four Bouncing Bulldogs might be in their early 20s and nearing the end of their college days at N.C. State University, but they are senior citizens in the world of competitive rope skipping.
Kathy Cooper vividly remembers the segregated swimming pools of the 1970s, when she was growing up in rural Eastern North Carolina. She swam in the "black" pool.
They came. They swam. They tried to set a world record.
The Triangle Flight U11 boys' basketball team might be novices at hoops, but the average spectator wouldn't know it. These little guys play with big hearts, and in two short years, they have gone f...
It is an understatement to say that Niklas Sade is a place-kicker and punter on his Wakefield High School football team. Coaches rank him among the top five high school kickers in the country.
In one short overtime punch, the Ravenscroft Middle School lacrosse players discovered that true awesomeness isn't measured in how they win, but in how they lose.
On a recent night at Dreamsports in Apex, Michelle Vedder prepared to play goaltender with a men's inline hockey team, suiting up like a Transformer, changing her slim, athletic body into a behemoth.
Only champion weightlifters and superheroes can pull a 35,000-pound jet with nothing but a rope and a pair of leather gloves to protect their hands.
When the Wake County Special Olympics Spring Games kicked off at 10:30 a.m. April 22, Brandon Williams was the picture of pride as he marched around the Ravenscroft School's track in North Raleigh ...