Football coaches would give thanks for a win tonight

Stevens: The mark of a great high school football season in North Carolina is when the coach has to figure out how to handle practice on Thanksgiving Day. The winners of tonight's N.C. High School Athletic Association second-round games will have to work around the Thanksgiving break next Thursday and Friday.
Modified: 11/20/09 11:03:58 AM

Area boys hit road in soccer

Stevens: Green Hope, Chapel Hill and Pittsboro Northwood go on the road tonight for the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys soccer semifinal games.
Modified: 11/17/09 11:28:24 PM

Gibbons' strength on line

Stevens: Cardinal Gibbons coach Mike Sheehan developed a rotation plan for his defensive linemen in the preseason.
Modified: 11/10/09 07:04:37 AM

South Johnston becomes a winner

Stevens: Joe Salas may have been the only person in the world who thought coaching the South Johnston football team was a great job when he accepted the assignment in 2004.
Modified: 11/05/09 11:16:22 PM

David Garrard left his imprint

Stevens: They may not have been the greatest high school football games ever played in North Carolina, but David Garrard helped provide two of the most memorable.
Modified: 11/02/09 11:23:38 PM

Paragon of high schools retiring

Stevens: Robert F. Kanaby, the voice of high school athletics in the nation, announced his retirement as the executive director of the National Federation of High School Athletic Associations this week.
Modified: 11/02/09 05:34:44 AM

South Granville gets its chance

Stevens: Ian Bosley didn't expect a lot when he began his football career at South Granville High four years ago.
Modified: 10/30/09 06:31:44 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