Junior Bonnie Evans (18) celebrates with her teammates and head coach after scoring the winning penalty kick in Tuesday’s semifinal game against Oakwood. The Spartans won 2-2 (3-2) and will play Saturday for the state championship.Kerr-Vance girls soccer celebrates after winning the state championship game 1-0 against Halifax Academy. It was the Spartans first state title since 1993.Southern Vance senior wide receiver Kendall McClendon hauls in a touchdown during the first quarter of the Raiders game against J.F. Webb. It was the second of McClendon’s three touchdown catches in the first half, powering Southern Vance to a 28-7 win.Southern Vance senior Kendall McClendon jumps to try to block J.F. Webb Jay-Quan Pierce’s shot late in the Warriors’ 75-52 loss to the Raiders. Southern Vance will play Northern Vance in a de facto conference championship this coming Friday.Northern Vance’s Tyronne Davis charges toward Southern Vance’s Hakeem Smith during their rivalry game against Southern Vance on Tuesday night. Moments earlier, Southern Vance’s Justus Baldwin had thrown down a monstrous dunk to electrify the home crowd, and Davis had made it his mission to respond. It did not go his way, as he missed the dunk, was called for an offensive foul and the Vikings fell to the Raiders, 75-55.Check out the Daily Dispatch’s winter preview in a special edition Friday, Nov. 17. Included are previews and schedules for each of the teams competing this winter, stories on the return of Coach Mike Rotolo and the rise of Henderson Collegiate’s varsity athletics program and the Daily Dispatch All-Area selections for boys and girls.In this photo from August, Kerr-Vance freshman Christopher Steg heads a ball into the net for one of his 56 goals on the season. Steg will look to lead the Spartans soccer team on its first step to a state championship tonight against Woodlawn.Jordan Dunn pitches at a local indoor practice facility. Dunn, 14, pitches faster than some Division I players, and was selected to the Select 30 AA camp with USA Softball.
“I feel more connected to Durham as a whole. This part of Durham definitely gives me a different perspective of what Durham is; the Durham that I knew existed, but I now have faces to go with the stories that you hear in the headlines and things like that. It normalizes a lot of the statistics and things where it’s not just like, ‘Oh no, East Durham is so bad.’ No, East Durham is great. My kids are awesome. They’re the answer to a lot of problems that we have here in Durham. But do people see them that way? Do they view them as a problem that needs to be fixed, or as a solution that can be harnessed?”
Cornell Jordan is an eighth grade English Teacher at Neal Middle School in Durham, NC. He left his job as a campus minister at the University of North Carolina to enter the teaching profession. (Pictured, Roberto Luna, Cornell Jordan)
“Fast forward almost ten years, and McCloughan’s prophecy has come true. An analysis of NFL Combine data from 1999-2016 show the average weight of tight ends dropped by ten pounds, the average 40-yard dash times dropped a full tenth of a second and average broad jump increase by five inches when comparing players measured in 1999 to those in 2016.”
From 1999-2016, broad jump scores (top) have risen more than five inches for tight ends, while 40-yard dash times for (bottom) have decreased by more than a tenth of a second.
2016 North Carolina governor’s race
Campaign donation heat map
Using publicly available campaign finance disclosures, GIS data and Google Fusion Tables, I created a heat map showing the distribution of cash raised by former North Carolina governor Pat McCrory and his Democrat challenger Roy Cooper.
