By Mike London mlondon@salisburypost.com MISENHEIMER — Back-to-backs is a tough way to open a basketball season, but Catawba's drained squad hobbled ...

By Bret Strelow bstrelow@salisburypost.com DURHAM — Playing in a real game for the first time in 20 months, Shamari Spears enjoyed the second succes ...

By David Shaw dshaw@salisburypost.com Salisbury's boys soccer team ran out of stardust Monday night. After racing through the season and three roun ...

By Mike London mlondon@salisburypost.com MISENHEIMER — Twenty-four hours after an ugly loss to Cheyney State, host Pfeiffer salvaged the third-place ...

From staff reports Livingstone's women's basketball team won the championship of the Lincoln Invitational with a 78-71 win against Concordia on Monda ...

Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Mark Martin often says he's "blessed," and for good reason. The driver from Batesville, Ark., has competed in NAS ...

Associated Press CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina went from looking battered, beaten and confused midway through the season to clinching bowl eligibility ...

By Joedy McCreary Associated Press DURHAM — Duke didn't have one of its key players and Coastal Carolina was missing one too. The big difference: T ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — For 30 minutes, the Baltimore Ravens were inefficient, unproductive and disorganized. In 17 seconds, they changed all that. Ray Rice ...

Randy Weddington and Ronnie Smith, both of China Grove, won a recent two-day Fish-off at High Rock Lake and Tuckertown Lake. Qualifying teams from t ...

The upcoming holiday period is one of the best times of the year to fish Lake Norman. By Thanksgiving weekend, most pleasure boats have been winterize ...

By Jeremy Judd - jjudd@salisburypost.comIt isn't every year a hunter takes a 16-point buck. In fact, in 28 years of hunting Rowan County, Shepherd had ...

By Ronnie Gallagher rgallagher@salisburypost.com MISENHEIMER — Was Catawba lucky to win its season opener over Livingstone on Sunday night? Indians ...

By Mike London mlondon@salisburypost.com MISENHEIMER — Pfeiffer's Davon Gilliard was smacked to the floor on a hard drive midway through the second ...

By Mike London mlondon@salisburypost.com Area college athletes ...UNC Pembroke redshirt freshman Derek Davis (South Rowan) made the long trip to Ark ...

By Mike Cranston Associated Press CHARLOTTE — The Carolina Panthers might have finally found a way to solve Jake Delhomme's woes: controlled chaos. ...

Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — When a fluke accident cost Jimmie Johnson a huge chunk of his points lead, he knew there was no more room for erro ...

Associated Press CHAPEL HILL — Roy Williams had promised there would be times when his North Carolina team looked ready to make a serious run at defen ...

By Ronnie Gallagher rgallagher@salisburypost.com If senior leadership means anything, mark down the Catawba men's basketball team for another South ...

By Ronnie Gallagher rgallagher@salisburypost.com In his five seasons as Livingstone men's basketball coach, James Stinson has brought stability back t ...

By Ronnie Gallagherrgallagher@salisburypost.com They call it the Highway 52 Shootout and that's exactly what it should be as Catawba, Livingstone and ...

By David Shaw sports@salisburypost.com Postseason soccer has a way of presenting ordinary players with extraordinary opportunities. Just ask Salisb ...

Associated Press ELON — Armanti Edwards threw for 281 yards, rushed for three touchdowns and Appalachian State clinched its fifth straight Southern Co ...

From staff reports East Rowan's football team won't know its second-round opponent until Monday night. Third-seeded Havelock had to postpone its 3A E ...

Associated Press PITTSBURGH — In need of a big win, Charlie Weis and Notre Dame couldn't turn around a troublesome trend. Pitt keeps winning and winni ...

Associated Press The top 25 roundup ... COLUMBUS, Ohio — The oldest of the Buckeyes sent Ohio State back to the Granddaddy of all bowls. Devin Barclay ...

Associated press COLUMBIA, S.C. — As he watched South Carolina inch closer to a go-ahead score early in the fourth quarter, Florida coach Urban Meyer ...

Associated Press The college roundup ... BOILING SPRINGS — Tommy Beecher threw three touchdown passes and Mike Brown rushed for two scores to help Lib ...

Associated Press The ACC roundup ... DURHAM — Jonathan Dwyer rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns, Josh Nesbitt accounted for three scores and No. ...

Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM — The 80-year-old embattled coach was sitting in a golf cart and upbeat moments after his redshirt freshman quarterback ...