Charlotte and Raleigh have had their differences, but when it really mattered, they've always come together.
In the late 80's when the NBA was looking to expand, the Raleigh leadership was extremely vocal in their support of Charlotte to win the franchise that eventually became the Hornets.
Last week, @andrew_dunn's piece in the @CharlotteObser and the @newsobserver suggested that the Queen City is ready to return the favor with MLB.
Charlotte, Durham, every town and every city in this state, we've put in the work here in Raleigh for the past 8 years, building this bid with a dream of bringing home an MLB team.
We've gone from afterthought to potential front-runner.
Now, we need everyone in North Carolina to join us and do what they said couldn't be done...
Bring #MLB2NC together as one united state!
#RaleighOnDeck #StateOfBaseball
LSU isn't the only national power that'll miss the NCAA baseball tournament. Vanderbilt's national-best streak of 19 straight appearances is also over and the Dores will miss the tourney for the first time since 2005 👀
Florida (18) now holds the longest active streak.
"He went 5 feet passed me, stopped, revved the engine so it shot flames out the back, went around the corner stopped and cursed me out."
Mark Peifer has been documenting #UNC football players speeding and parking in handicap spaces for months full report in link below.
🇺🇸BREAKING: Someone placed a $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 AM.
70 minutes later Axios reported the US and Iran were close to a deal.
Oil dropped 12%.
The trade made $125 million in profit.
Minutes after that Iran launched the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” and oil surged 8%.
$760 million placed before Trump’s last announcement.
$920 million placed before this one.
Every major announcement in this war has been front-run by someone who knew it was coming.
What kind of war is this?
This is more like a trading desk with an army.
Never stop connecting the dots.
@Eagle_gRiD@WolfpackRobNC@LO_Wolfpack Pretty much the same thing happened in the 9-7 loss, a long pass with almost no time to go to set up the FG, which no one thought he’d make. Both losses were crushing and could’ve gone either way. I was in the stadium with my dad for the 9-7 loss. You could’ve heard a pin drop
@PackInsider Happens all the time. Smart move. Even though I’m sure Avent thought we’d be squarely in, we shouldn’t schedule a risky team like this late in the season
A student-athlete turned in a 146-word essay about Rosa Parks — one paragraph, riddled with errors, no sources — and got an A-minus. That single paper helped expose the biggest academic fraud in NCAA history.
For 18 years, from 1993 to 2011, a department secretary named Deborah Crowder ran fake courses at the University of North Carolina. @UNC The classes never met. There was no syllabus and no professor.
Students turned in one paper per semester. Crowder admitted she never read them. She skimmed introductions and handed out A’s.
UNC’s academic counselors steered athletes into these courses each semester, specifying what grades each player needed. Athletes made up 47% of enrollments despite being just 4% of the student body.
Rashad McCants, a star on UNC’s 2005 championship team, told ESPN he made the Dean’s List without attending a single class. Ten of fifteen players on that title team were enrolled in paper courses.
When whistleblower Mary Willingham revealed that 60% of athletes read at a 4th-to-8th grade level, UNC attacked her publicly and fans sent death threats. She was forced to resign.
In October 2014, a 136-page investigation confirmed the scope: 188 fake classes, 3,100 students, 18 years of fraud.
And the punishment? In October 2017, the NCAA ruled there were no significant violations. Zero penalties. No vacated wins. No postseason bans.
@UNC calls themselves a bastion of academia. How incredibly pathetic.