The Wolfpack Club in Raleigh will hold its annual meeting May 28 under a large tent on the Dail Practice Field adjacent to Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh.

Wake Forest's opening football game at Baylor has been rescheduled for Thursday, Aug. 28, in order to accommodate a national television audience.

Miami's slugger Yonder Alonso throttled a full-count pitch by North Carolina ace Alex White in the third inning and planted it far beyond the left-field wall for a grand slam against the nation's No. 2 team in a 12-2 victory.

Joffrey Lupul scored the first of Philadelphia's three first-period goals Thursday night, and the Flyers extended the Eastern Conference finals for at least one more game with a 4-2 victory over the Penguins.

The Dallas goalie Marty Turco is 0-9-2 in the NHL at Joe Louis Arena, where he will have a chance to stop nagging questions and extend the Western Conference finals against the Detroit Red Wings.

Matt Payne led a 14-hit attack with three hits and three RBIs, and Eric Surkamp and two relievers combined on a three-hitter to lead the 18th-ranked N.C. State baseball team past third-ranked Florida State 12-2 on Thursday at Tallahassee, Fla.

N.C. State got off to a good start in the NCAA East Regional Championship at Chattanooga, Tenn., shooting a 5-under-par 279 for sixth place after the first round.

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Daniel Gibson will miss tonight's Game 6 of the team's series against the Boston Celtics after separating his left shoulder during the second half Wednesday night.

The San Antonio Spurs' Big Three came through. Now they have to win one on the road to keep their title defense alive.

Mike Metcalf, a former fullback for the Mountaineers, was the catch-can man for driver Brian Vickers' athletic team that won Thursday's Sprint Pit Crew Challenge by edging Denny Hamlin's team in an all-Toyota final round.

After rain the previous day washed out all but about an hour of the opening day of the second week of practice for the May 25 Indianapolis 500, 35 drivers took advantage of the cool, dry afternoon to get on track.

The Carolina RailHawks women play their first home game of the soccer season at 7:30 tonight against the Atlanta Silverbacks at WakeMed Soccer Park.

Music blared in the Tampa Bay Rays' clubhouse, and four large, flat-screen televisions mounted around a column in the middle of the room were tuned to the same in-house channel displaying the American League East standings.

The Milwaukee Brewers sign National League Rookie of the Year Ryan Braun to an eight-year, $45 million contract.

Big Brown had an acclimating gallop over the Pimlico Race Course racing strip Thursday morning and seemed right at home.

MINOR LEAGUES:CLOSE: Jon Weber homered in the first inning for the Bulls on Thursday, but he took a called third strike in the bottom of the ninth with the tying and winning runs on base to seal Toledo's victory at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

Major League Baseball hit the pause button instead of taking action to get more games on television in outlying areas like the Triangle.

Eight Belles had no diseases or pre-existing bone abnormalities that caused the filly to break down after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby.

EXTRA EFFORT: John Raynor's sacrifice fly scored Andrew Jenkins, who had doubled earlier, in the 12th inning to give the visiting Carolina Mudcats a win over the Huntsville Stars on Thursday night.

Two days after announcing this would be her final season on the LPGA Tour, Annika Sorenstam shot a 5-under 67 on Thursday for a share of the first-round lead in the Sybase Classic at Clifton, N.J.

Green Hope senior Nicole Danford has been voted the Gatorade North Carolina girls soccer player of the year.

Results from high school play-off games on Thursday.

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