Fowler: There was an NBA team playing in Charlotte Saturday night that was long considered a joke.
Modified: 02/11/12 11:02:06 PMFowler: You don't often see a man from North Carolina excel in table tennis, move to Florida, go to Romania to train for one last hurrah and then return to his home state to try and win a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.
Modified: 02/09/12 06:35:15 AMFowler: It's better than Yankees-Red Sox or Ohio State-Michigan or Clemson-South Carolina or any other one you care to name.
Modified: 02/08/12 11:28:33 AMFowler: I know a lot of people like watching the Super Bowl pregame show. Not me. I like the game itself. I'm OK with the high-dollar commercials - for once, I won't DVR my way through all of them tonight.
Modified: 02/04/12 07:50:42 PMFowler: Let's get this out of the way: There is no award called "Best NFL Rookie Season Ever." There is no vote. It's purely a mythical title.
Modified: 01/16/12 05:34:44 AMFowler: It was weird, like stepping into a time machine and wandering out into January 2004.
Modified: 01/10/12 10:15:04 AMFowler: What the Carolina Panthers lacked in wins during the first year of the Cam Newton era, they made up for in hope.
Modified: 01/02/12 05:19:46 AMFowler: N.C. State finished with a flourish Tuesday night, ending its football season with a dramatic 31-24 win against Louisville in the Belk Bowl.
Modified: 12/28/11 12:50:19 AMFowler: As the Carolina Panthers began to fritter away another double-digit lead in the second half Sunday, folks on their couches around the Carolinas were cringing.
Modified: 12/19/11 05:55:08 AMFowler: North Carolina always fields a good men's soccer team. The Tar Heels had made it to the College Cup - soccer's version of the final four - three times in a row heading into this season.
Modified: 12/12/11 05:55:54 AMFowler: Wham. Bam. Thank you, Cam.
Modified: 12/04/11 10:23:08 PMFowler: For many years, the three of them were as closely linked to the Carolina Panthers football team as those snarling black panther statues that ring Bank of America Stadium.
Modified: 12/02/11 06:05:44 AMFowler: The players call him "coach Dean." DeAngelo Dean has cerebral palsy - a neurological disorder that appears in infancy or early childhood and permanently affects body movement and muscle coordination.
Modified: 11/24/11 04:12:27 AMFowler: The Carolina Panthers wanted the second half of the season to feel nothing like the first, and that's the only place where you could judge Sunday's effort a success.
Modified: 11/14/11 05:57:21 AMFowler: If the Carolina Panthers are going to get better in the second half of the season starting today in a 1 p.m. home game vs. Tennessee, their defense must step up.
Modified: 11/12/11 07:04:31 PMFowler: Imagine it was your child. Imagine it was your son, or your grandson, or some other 10-year-old you cared about.
Modified: 11/09/11 03:55:29 PMFowler: As he sat in the glass house that is the North Carolina football program Wednesday, interim head coach Everett Withers started throwing stones at N.C. State.
Modified: 11/04/11 03:59:31 PMFowler: As Olindo Mare's 31-yard, tying field-goal attempt went sailing wide left on a sunny Sunday afternoon that suddenly turned dark, the Carolina Panthers were left to think about a half-season that has also sailed just off the mark.
Modified: 10/31/11 12:28:08 AMAs Olindo Mares 31-yard, game-tying field goal attempt went sailing wide left on a sunny Sunday afternoon that suddenly turned dark, the Carolina Panthers were left to think about a half-season that has also sailed just off the mark.
Modified: 10/31/11 09:48:12 AMFowler: On Sunday in Charlotte, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton gave the football with which he had just scored the game's first touchdown to a grinning child in a front-row end zone seat at Bank of America Stadium.
Modified: 10/25/11 12:15:51 AM







