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After a strange 2020 season that was played later than normal (in November and December), with a condensed schedule of games against just three different opponents, as well as mask requirements for players, the East field hockey team was ready to get back to normal this fall.

Issac Marsh’s first win as Chapel Hill High School football coach came at Auman Stadium Aug. 27, 2004. It couldn’t have gone any better. The Tigers defeated Orange 48-0 when quarterback Kyle Holland threw for over 300 yards…

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there may not have been a gym full of students and teachers for the fanfare that goes with a standard signing ceremony.

Under a timeframe heavily adjusted because of the coronavirus, there will be playoffs for most high school sports this season.

When the coronavirus pandemic finally releases its merciless grip on everyday American life, some residents won’t realize the toll it took until months, perhaps years, have gone by.

When Randy Trumbower took his kids swimming at the YMCA of Meadowmont last Wednesday afternoon, he had a clear head. It has been the most unusual August in his tenure as East Chapel Hill’s…

Could the coronavirus pandemic actually help the Chapel Hill High football team? Coach Issac Marsh thinks it might. Since reaching the 2014 Eastern Regional final, Chapel Hill has won just 10 varsity games. And now, the team doesn’t know when it will next be playing.

High school football coaches throughout the state spent the opening day of August going through withdrawal. The first official day of high school football practice, slated for last Friday night, was officially canceled because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.  

Any high school coach of significant stature lives by an annual schedule. When the final week of June rolls around, Jason Curtis is usually compiling paperwork for the upcoming soccer season and preparing for early tryouts.

For now, the closest that Kevin Ladd will come to seeing baseball at Durham Athletic Park will be whenever “Bull Durham” pops up on basic cable. Ladd, the baseball coach at Carrboro High, had more in mind for this summer…

The first thing to know about baseball coaches is even when there aren’t games, they never stop being baseball coaches. When the players are away, there’s still a big field that requires constant mowing, watering and picking weeds.

“Stay behind the line.” As Tripp Price’s mind was racing, with raucous pandemonium unfolding around him, that was his first thought. His wrestlers at Chapel Hill High had just accomplished something that no Tiger team before it had done…