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Winning together: A close-knit attititude is at the core of Deacon's successful season
Michael Hoag represents the Old Guard of the Wake Forest football team in more ways than one.
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Grobe: Deacons aren't ready
As he assesses his football team halfway through preseason camp, coach Jim Grobe of Wake Forest sees a bunch of players anxious and raring to play Syracuse in the Sept. 1 opener.
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New manager says Dash will contend for title
Nobody has to tell first-year manager Julio Vinas of the Winston-Salem Dash he has a tough act to follow.
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Wake Forest football team ravaged by injuries
Coach Jim Grobe has a word of advice for anybody planning to drop by BB&T Field today to watch Wake Forest's football scrimmage, scheduled for 10 a.m.
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Local baseball exhibition with Babe Ruth was a big hit in 1920
In 1920, 125,000 automobiles were registered in North Carolina, a state with a population of 2.6 million.
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Deacons land big man
Larry Bird had a little bit of everything as a Hall of Fame basketball player. He had strength, he had touch, he had vision and he had a raging desire to win.
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Deacons removing redshirts today
The redshirts have come off a number of potentially key players on the Wake Forest football roster.
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Bzdelik says he was humiliated and embarrassed
It's wrong for a coach not totally committed to a basketball program to ask his players to be.
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Pleading His Case: Tight end Wooster wants opportunity to catch more passes for Wake Forest
As the roommate of quarterback Riley Skinner, senior tight end Ben Wooster has a decided home-field advantage over the other tight ends and receivers on the Wake Forest roster.
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Local Hero: Shore will be forever linked with Babe Ruth
The most far-reaching decisions of life often require little to no deliberation. They're made for us.
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Lean Years: Howerton held the fort for local team
In another time at the same place as today, Winston-Salem's professional baseball team was operated by Cart Howerton.
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Legacy: Slack's influence on local baseball remains strong
Professional baseball would have been played at Ernie Shore Field for the past 53 years without Bill Slack. But it wouldn't have been as interesting, or as much fun. And judging from Slack's performance in his 12 1/2 seasons as manager of the Winston-Salem Red Sox, it wouldn't have been as good.
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In The Genes: Ackleys know baseball
It would be a bit of a stretch to say that had it not been for the kindness and consideration extended some 25 years ago by Bill Slack, then Dustin Ackley wouldn't be tearing the cover off the ball for North Carolina.
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Amazing Dry Spell
The ACC should petition the NCAA to present an annual award to the conference that has the best regular-season performance in baseball.
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MAKEOVER: Wellman, the athletics director at WFU, has some big plans for Ernie Shore Field
Winston-Salem, as anybody paying attention knows by now, will soon have a new baseball stadium.
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WFU facing long odds in tourney
Wake Forest will try to save its season in the ACC baseball tournament for the second year in a row starting with today's first-round game against third-ranked Florida State at 5 p.m. at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.
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Not Too Late: WFU has chance to salvage once-disappointing season with run in ACC Tournament
Pitcher Charlie Mellies of Wake Forest pointed out last week that it's never good for a team to peak too early.
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A Dream Fulfilled: Bubba Smith, former minor-league player, has fond memories of his long career in baseball
More than a thousand players have suited up for Winston-Salem's professional baseball teams since they began playing their home games at Ernie Shore Field in 1956. Given how the current major-league affiliate, the Chicago White Sox, shuffles its players around, the number may approach 2,000 by season's end, after which the Warthogs will move into a new ballpark on the western edge of downtown.
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CONTENDING: Warthogs hope to make run at league title in their final season at Ernie Shore Field
The professional-baseball teams that have played under various names for Winston-Salem have won nine of their record 11 Carolina League titles since moving into Ernie Shore Field in 1956.
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Defensive end picks Deacs over Cavs
Defensive end Zach Thompson made life a bit more difficult for his father when he decided this week to play football at Wake Forest.
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Warthogs hang on
What began as a frolic turned into a bit of a fright late, but the Winston-Salem Warthogs held on for a 7-5 victory over the Potomac Nationals yesterday at sunny Ernie Shore Field.
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Roll of the Dice: Warthogs betting that ballpark packs 'em in
The Golden Age of Sports in Winston-Salem swept through the town in 1947. By 1948 it was history.
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Deacons light it up
By every measure but one, Wake Forest's annual spring scrimmage on campus yesterday was a rousing success.
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