Latest by Aaron Beard

Published on March 22, 2024 - Page 11
Hubert Davis remembers the inside-out emphasis of playing for North Carolina Hall of Famer Dean Smith before a 12-year NBA career. "When I was here...
Published on March 20, 2024 - Page 11
For the second straight year, Purdue's Zach Edey is the unanimous headliner for The Associated Press men's college basketball All-America team. The 7...
Published on February 27, 2024 - Page 9
Duke coach Jon Scheyer wants the Atlantic Coast Conference to implement measures to prevent court-storming after star big man Kyle Filipowski was...
Published on August 24, 2023 - Page 11
Clemson has been in control of the Atlantic Coast Conference for nearly a decade. Florida State aims to challenge that this fall. The ninth-ranked...
Published on July 27, 2023 - Page 11
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Florida State pass rusher Jared Verse, a Central Columbia graduate, remembers watching the game film closely, studying moves and...
Published on June 1, 2023 - Page 13
Purdue's Zach Edey decided it was the right call to go back to school instead of staying in the NBA draft. His predecessor as national player of the...
Published on March 22, 2023 - Page 9
Kelvin Sampson has been around college basketball long enough to remember when preseason practices started in October following a true offseason,...
Published on July 23, 2022 - Page 11
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The plan wasn’t for Georgia Tech to lose top running back Jahmyr Gibbs as a transfer to Alabama in the Southeastern Conference. Yet...
Published on July 21, 2022 - Page 11
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner Jim Phillips leads a league bringing in record revenues, with more and more money going to...
Published on June 24, 2022 - Page 7
The number of women competing at the highest level of college athletics continues to rise along with an increasing funding gap between men’s and...