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Hurricanes agree to 2-year deal with McBain

The Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to a two-year, $3.6 million deal with defenseman Jamie McBain. The deal will pay $1.7 million next season and $1.9 million the following year. The 24-year-old defenseman completed his third full professional season last year, leading Carolina defensemen with 19 assists and 27 points. McBain ...

2 NC State DBs opting to transfer

North Carolina State coach Tom O'Brien says safeties Donald Coleman and Dean Haynes are transferring. School officials announced the players' decisions Friday and said Coleman has graduated and will be eligible to play for his new school immediately. Haynes will be a redshirt junior this season. He arrived in 2009 ...

Documents: Krzyzewski made more than $7M in 2010

Duke paid coach Mike Krzyzewski roughly $7.2 million during the year of his most recent national championship. The school's most recent IRS documents obtained Thursday cover the 2010 calendar year. They show Krzyzewski received a base salary of roughly $2 million, more than $3.7 million in bonuses and incentives, and ...

Amile Jefferson signs with Duke

Star high school forward Amile Jefferson has signed with Duke. School officials said Tuesday night that Jefferson signed his letter of intent to play for the Blue Devils this fall. Coach Mike Krzyzewski says Jefferson is "a perfect young man for Duke University." Jefferson is a 6-foot-7, 190-pound power forward ...

Clemson RB Bellamy won't play for Tigers

Clemson freshman running back Mike Bellamy was ruled academically ineligible and won't return to school next fall. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday that Bellamy plans to enter a junior college this summer. Bellamy was a Parade All-American and considered consensus a five-star prospect in the mold of former Clemson ...

Clemson to face Purdue in conference challenge

Clemson will host Purdue at Littlejohn Coliseum in the annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge, the third time the teams have met in the conference competition. The game will take place November 28th. Clemson lost to the Boilermakers 76-64 in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 2003. The teams met again in 2007, this ...

Krzyzewski not likely to return for 2016 Olympics

Mike Krzyzewski says he thinks the London Olympics will be his last coaching the United States. The Duke coach was brought in before the 2008 Games to revive a struggling Olympic team, which had finished a disappointing third in Athens. Krzyzewski and USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo established a player ...

US beats Kazakhstan 3-2 at hockey worlds

Justin Faulk of the Carolina Hurricanes scored four minutes into overtime for his second goal of the game Friday, sending the United States to a 3-2 victory over Kazakhstan at hockey's world championships. The Americans were coming off a 5-3 victory over Belarus on Thursday and improved to 3-1-1 in ...

Capel family of coaches savoring 76ers' success

The Capel coaching family is savoring every NBA playoff win by the Philadelphia 76ers. Jeff Jr. is an assistant with the Sixers, who are on the verge of eliminating the top-seeded Chicago Bulls in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. He has two sons in college coaching — ...

FILE - This Dec. 31, 2011 file photo shows Clemson' football player Sammy Watkins speaking to reporters during an NCAA college football news conference for the Orange Bowl, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, Watkins was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and a controlled substance on Friday, May 4, 2012, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey M. Boan, File)

Clemson star Watkins arrested on drug charges

Clemson All-American receiver Sammy Watkins was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and a controlled substance on Friday. Watkins and soccer player Amadou-Tidiane Daniel Dia were stopped by university police after an officer saw the car scrape a curb and the temporary license tag was not lit. The police ...