Brain test makes an impact on reporter

Stevens: Last week, I joined about 3,000 Wake County high school athletes in taking the ImPACT test. There is no passing or failing score, but afterward I felt as if I had been through a strenuous mental workout.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:19:10 AM

N.C.'s magnificent seven

Stevens: Scout.com has seven North Carolina high school seniors rated as four-star or higher football prospects.
Modified: 09/22/09 07:44:57 AM

Tonight's football games should be more telling

Stevens: The second week of the high school football season typically provides more insight than the openers.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:38:13 AM

Jordan still one to beat

Stevens: Green Hope boys soccer coach Andrew Chadwick was impressed with the Durham Jordan team that beat his club 4-1 on Monday night.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:14:09 AM

Prep players coming back for more

Stevens: A lot of things can happen between summer workouts after your sophomore year and the start of your senior year. The large number of football players who don't return to teams is clear when comparing last year's rosters with this year's.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:16:26 AM

Fowler suspends early retirement

Stevens: Gary Fowler came out of retirement, of sorts, to coach the Clayton High football team this year.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:44:34 AM

Adams set the standard

Stevens: My life changed when I tore cartilage and ligaments in my left knee during a football game at Northern Durham in 1966.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:26:09 AM

Ex-Southeast star speeds to record

Stevens: Southeast Raleigh High graduate Wayne Davis II added another world record on Friday while competing in the Pan American Junior Championships in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:30:23 AM

Wachovia honors go to 4 Triangle schools

Apex, Broughton, Clayton and East Chapel Hill won Wachovia Conference Cup championships this year.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:29:50 AM

All-stars chosen in soccer

Leesville Road senior Michelle Jewell and junior Nicole Jewell are among the area players chosen to the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association all-state team.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:54:35 AM

Ravenscroft's Kelly making the rounds

Stevens: Ravenscroft basketball forward Ryan Kelly moved a little closer to making his college basketball decision when he made his official visit to Vanderbilt.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:58:17 AM

Elite juniors to play locally

Bob Gibbons expects about 35 of the top 50 high school junior basketball prospects in the country to play in his Blue Cross/Blue Shield of North Carolina Tournament of Champions event May 28-30. The tournament has been expanded to 128 teams, including 64 in the featured 17-and-under bracket and 32 teams each in the 16-and-under and 15-under brackets.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:56:54 AM

Seattle player wants Miami letter tossed

Dan Jurdy, the athletics director at Ranier Beach High in Seattle, this week issued a plea to Paul Dee, the athletics director of the University of Miami. "Please tell Mr. Dee, 'Please stop hurting children. Please don't hurt this boy any more. You've hurt him enough. Please don't hurt him any more,' " Jurdy said during a telephone interview.
Modified: 09/22/09 08:03:57 AM

Pack picks up transfer

Brandon Jefferies plans to transfer from Tennessee to N.C. State.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:09:10 AM

Hardesty grabbing attention

Monterio Hardesty considers himself to be a football player who runs fast, not a fast runner who plays football. Either way you look at it, the New Bern junior appears to be one of the top football recruiting prospects in the country next year.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:52:53 AM

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Melvin picks Blue Devils

Marquis Melvin, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound defensive back/wide receiver at Whiteville, has committed to Duke. Melvin played on a Whiteville team that finished 9-4 and reached the third round of the state football playoffs.
Modified: 09/22/09 08:02:18 AM

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Recruits shine at classic

Duke men's basketball recruit Shaun Livingston and University of North Carolina recruit JR Smith were among the MVP award winners in the Roundball Classic all-star game in Chicago on Wednesday night. Livingston, a 6-foot-6 point guard from Peoria (Ill.) Central, had 12 points, seven assists and two rebounds in the West's 124-110 victory.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:37:48 AM

Trinity player's miracle

Trinity (28-1), which will play Greensboro Dudley (25-7) on Saturday for the NCHSAA 3-A boys title, is led by shooter Josh Smith. The 5-foot-10 senior holds the state record for 3-point baskets in a career and in a game and has scored more than 2,000 points in his career.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:25:49 AM

Another Bulldog gets scholarship

Trey Hales, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound cornerback at Southeast Raleigh, has accepted a football scholarship to Wingate. Hales is the seventh member of the Bulldogs' defensive unit to receive a scholarship this year.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:21:59 AM

Caps ranked No. 2

Broughton, which fielded the top-ranked girls soccer team in the country in 2003, isn't ranked No. 1 in the first N.C. Soccer Coaches Association poll. Coach Izzy Hernandez' Caps, who return eight starters, are ranked No. 2 behind Greensboro Grimsley. Broughton defeated Grimsley 2-0 in last year's NCHSAA 4-A final.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:27:30 AM

League adds new school

The Big Eight South 3-A Conference will add Overhills High School, which will open this fall in Harnett County, for the 2004-2005 school year. The Big Eight South will have seven members, with Overhills joining fellow Harnett County schools Triton and Harnett Central and Johnston County 3-A schools Smithfield-Selma, South Johnston, Clayton and West Johnston.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:50:50 AM

NBA eyes high school stars

Basketball recruiting analyst Dave Telep believes the NBA might draft more high school players than ever during its draft in June. "When you start looking, there aren't many guys coming out of college that you would take before a lot of the high school kids," he said.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:15:55 AM

McGinnis adds to his collection

Matt McGinnis of Ravenscroft has set two more N.C. Independent School Athletic Association swimming records. McGinnis lowered his 50-yard freestyle record to 20.54 seconds and his 100 freestyle mark to 44.50 in a meet on Thursday.
Modified: 09/22/09 12:57:19 AM

Different leagues for Wilson possible

Wilson County's Hunt, Fike and Beddingfield high schools would be in three different athletic conferences under the proposed realignment plan for the N.C. High School Athletic Association. Fike would be in a 3-A league with Southern Nash, Rocky Mount, Northern Nash, Nash Central and SouthWest Edgecombe, and Hunt would be in another 3-A league with West Johnston, Pikeville Aycock, Eastern Wayne, Southern Wayne and Kinston.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:41:31 AM

Classes ranked, but only fall will tell

A glance at various national football recruiting lists after Wednesday's national signing day shows how subjective the rankings are. Miller Safrit, TheInsiders.com's Atlantic Coast Conference expert, ranked the league's recruiting classes (in order): Miami, Florida State, N.C. State, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Wake Forest and Duke.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:32:08 AM

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Harnett Central moves to No. 1

Stevens: Wake Forest-Rolesville or Harnett Central? Which team should be No. 1 in the N&O rankings?
Modified: 10/27/09 03:56:30 AM

East Wake is better than its record

Stevens: East Wake coach Jimmy Williams said the most impressive team his Warriors have played this season is Leesville Road.
Modified: 10/23/09 06:03:54 AM

Northwood's Shannon Peppers shares the acclaim

Stevens: The Pittsboro Northwood offensive line played well Friday night in a 62-34 victory over Carrboro. If you don't read any further, you have seen the message that running back Shannon Peppers wanted to convey after rushing for 414 yards and scoring seven touchdowns.
Modified: 10/20/09 05:16:47 AM

Kinston will hit the road

Stevens: Indirectly, Kinston basketball forward Reggie Bullock is giving his teammates one heck of a present.
Modified: 10/19/09 06:19:27 AM

Cap Seven title hangs in balance

Stevens: Wake Forest-Rolesville is ranked among the top teams in the area and is undefeated, but sometimes it doesn't feel that way.
Modified: 10/15/09 11:03:19 PM

Broken shinbone brings soccer teams together

Stevens: Cary Academy soccer coach Jeff Costa said he and his team were touched Tuesday by the concern shown by Durham Academy coach JulianCochran following an injury for the Chargers.
Modified: 10/14/09 11:43:29 PM

Coaches appreciate intangibles

Stevens: Mike Devine, who was an outstanding high school football coach at Wake Forest-Rolesville and Cary, once said that the bad thing, the only bad thing, about coaching high school football was that you had to leave it if you wanted to provide for your family.
Modified: 10/13/09 12:15:31 AM

Gibbons embraces football

Stevens: A few years ago, the idea of Cardinal Gibbons playing in a key conference football game would have seemed unlikely.
Modified: 10/08/09 11:32:18 PM

Sandidge getting in his kicks

Stevens: Sanford Lee Christian senior Robert Sandidge has scored 55 goals and assisted on 31 others this season to pile up 141 points and build a big lead in the area boys soccer scoring race.
Modified: 10/07/09 12:29:36 AM

Evanoff gives Jags a kick

Stevens: Athens Drive freshman Tommy Evanoff had attempted only one varsity extra-point kick before coach Jeff Smouse told him to go kick with the game on the line Friday night.
Modified: 10/08/09 02:19:41 PM

Holiday event sets field

Stevens: The GlaxoSmithKline Holiday Invitational has set its field for the Dec. 26-30 basketball event at Broughton High.
Modified: 10/03/09 08:09:43 PM

Panther Creek looks for real

Stevens: Panther Creek coach Wayne Bragg said he learned long ago to disbelieve rumors about who was transferring where.
Modified: 10/01/09 11:24:23 PM

Top runners here this week

Stevens: Many of the top high school cross country runners in the country will compete Saturday in the Great American Cross Country Festival at the WakeMed Soccer Complex in Cary.
Modified: 09/29/09 11:38:16 PM

Clayton learns some hard lessons

Stevens: What do you tell a bunch of guys who play their hearts out and still lose?
Modified: 09/29/09 12:50:04 AM

Coaches don't take chances

Stevens: The closest I ever came to dying, I think, was in a hilly tobacco field in rural Johnston County, directly across Highway 50 from Mount Zion United Methodist Church.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:11:26 AM

Panther Creek gets some attention

Stevens: Panther Creek has played football games that were important to the school before, but tonight the Catamounts play their first game of league importance when they travel to Fuquay-Varina for a Tri-Nine Conference game.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:13:38 AM

Ravenscroft runner speeds to victory

Stevens: Ravenscroft freshman Wesley Frazier ran what is believed to be the fastest cross country time ever recorded by a North Carolina high school girl while winning the Seahawk Invitational at UNC-Wilmington on Saturday.
Modified: 09/22/09 01:38:09 AM

FAIR system developed for seeding football playoffs

Stevens: Drew Pasteur, an assistant professor of mathematics at the College of Wooster in Ohio, may be in the process of changing the way the N.C. High School Athletic Association chooses teams and seeds them for its state playoffs
Modified: 09/22/09 01:18:37 AM

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