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IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY FOR HOOPS

Basketball season is months away, but ACC Now is previewing the season now. Expect big things from UNC and Duke. Part I | Part II | Part III

Fast rise has Paul on the world stage

Chris Paul knows what the inside of a VIP room looks like.

Updated: Jul. 13, 2008 1:02 AM | Full story

Eight reasons to watch ACC football

The ACC has lost eight straight BCS bowl games and no ACC team is considered a serious national championship contender. But the conference always is entertaining, even when it doesn’t make a splash nationally.

Updated: Jul. 11, 2008 5:19 PM | Full story






Looking at the winners, losers in ACC hoops schedule

Expansion killed the round-robin in basketball and created an unbalanced schedule. Each team plays five opponents twice — two of which are the designated partner (i.e. UNC's partners are Duke and N.C. State) — and then three home games and three road games.

Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 11:47 AM | Full story

Tiger's niece carving niche

Cheyenne Woods, one of the best female high school golfers in the country, will have a new home for the next four years after signing with Wake Forest University.

Updated: Jul. 8, 2008 5:28 AM | Full story

College coaches scout ACC programs

Offer football coaches anonymity and the candor flows. That's what Athlon did for its football preview magazine, which includes a scouting section from unnamed opposing coaches.

Updated: Jul. 2, 2008 12:56 PM | Full story

Easy scheduling key to building program

Unless you're Michigan, the easiest way to find wins — and build a program — in college football is to schedule Division I-AA teams. No one understands this better than the Big 12, specifically Kansas and Kansas State.

Updated: Jul. 1, 2008 1:16 PM | Full story

Deacs suspend forward Skeen

Junior violated an academic policy.

Updated: Jun. 25, 2008 2:23 AM | Full story

Wake's first football foe has ACC ties

Former Miami football player Kirby Freeman, now at Baylor, may be the first opposing quarterback that Wake Forest’s defense confronts in the 2008 season.

Updated: May. 19, 2008 3:15 PM | Full story

ACC Now's pre-preseason pigskin preview

If you thought the ACC was bad last year, or the year before, or the year before ... brace yourself for 2008. The league could be even worse, if that's possible.

Updated: May. 8, 2008 4:34 PM | Full story

ACC looking at nine-game conference schedule

When the ACC spring meetings begin Sunday at Amelia Island, Fla., discussions of expanded conference scheduling will not be limited to men's basketball.

Updated: May. 8, 2008 2:30 PM | Full story

Early projection has Wake football in top 25

Athlon Sports, the folks who publish sports preview publications, tapped Wake Forest as the No. 24 team in the nation for its ongoing college football preseason countdown on Friday.

Updated: May. 2, 2008 2:26 PM | Full story

ACC/Big Ten Challenge schedule released

North Carolina will play Michigan at Detroit’s Ford Field and Duke will play at Purdue in next season’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge. But as expected, N.C. State will be left out of the made-for-TV event for the first time because it finished last in league play.

Updated: Apr. 15, 2008 2:12 PM | Full story

McCauley's slam downs Deacons

Ben McCauley's follow slam of Gavin Grant's missed shot, with barely one-tenth of a second left, gave the Wolfpack a 67-65 victory over the Demon Deacons at the RBC Center.

Updated: Feb. 4, 2008 5:58 AM | Full story

2007 football preview: Wake Forest

The Deacons got to, and won, the league championship last season by finishing 6-2 in the balanced Atlantic. They have enough parts in place to chart the same path again.

Updated: Aug. 9, 2007 7:13 AM | Full story
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