CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina fans now have a new villain in the storied rivalry with Duke. For fans of the Blue Devils, there’s a new face to personify calm under pressure. Austin Rivers, a freshman playing in his 24th college game, buried the biggest shot of his brief career to give Duke an 85-84 victory Wednesday night at the Smith Center. And that was onl...

BY JASON HAWKINS hawkinsoutdoors@msn.com The term “man cave” is used loosely to describe a place where someone may retreat from life and escape to a place interruptions are shut off by closing a door or turning up the volume. The man cave, as I have learned from various friends and acquaintances, is a sacred environment where a man can be a man. These dwel...

DURHAM — Tuesday's game more or less had been decided in the first half, but Person High got no relief from the Southern Lady Spartans’ hawking, full-court defense until the final horn sounded. “If you can’t handle that speed, if you can’t handle that aggressiveness, then we need to go back to Roxboro,” Person coach Ray Reaves told his players during a firs...