Sports

ROCKINGHAM — Head coach Chris Larsen believes “playing simple soccer” will bode well for the Richmond boys soccer team during its run through the 2018 season, which will be Larsen’s first at the helm. It’s […]

ROCKINGHAM — If history does, in fact, repeat itself, the Richmond football team has a lot to look forward to this season. Ever since the program’s first-ever state championship in 1978, the Raiders — who […]

ROCKINGHAM — There’s no doubt in Ashleigh Larsen’s mind that the Richmond volleyball team has what it takes to win another conference championship this season — which would be the program’s third title in as […]

Matt Kenseth’s rookie season in Cup was the year I graduated from college. Matt Kenseth became a grandfather this week. That’ll make you feel old. Chase Elliott finally broke through with his first Cup win […]

ROCKINGHAM — Wednesday night’s jamboree action was overshadowed by inclement weather. Right after the Richmond football team wrapped up its first offensive series of the evening, officials noticed that lightning had struck on the east […]

ROCKINGHAM — CarolinaPreps.com released its annual Preseason Power Rankings for the upcoming high school football season early Monday afternoon, and the Richmond football team came in at No. 10 on the 4A poll. It’s the […]

ROCKINGHAM — Richmond’s Caleb Hood was listed as one of the NCHSAA’s top returning passers in the eastern half of the state, according to stats from MaxPreps.com, in an article posted on HighSchoolOT.com on Saturday. […]

RAEFORD — The coaches and the media couldn’t come to an agreement on who will be the team to beat at the annual Sandhills Athletic Conference Media Day at Bayonet Golf Course at Puppy Creek […]

ROCKINGHAM — The Richmond football team spent the past five days installing offensive and defensive sets and working on “a ton of special teams” without making much contact. All of that changes Saturday morning, however, […]

ROCKINGHAM — Rainfall from the previous night forced the Richmond girls tennis team to call off its last day of tryouts Thursday morning, but things held off later that evening in order to give the […]

Over the last few years, as I’ve moved through my career and writing the third iteration of this column, I have come to learn that the storyteller part of my professional description is, in many […]

ROCKINGHAM — Both the Richmond boys soccer and volleyball teams wrapped up fall tryouts on Wednesday with a couple of two-hour sessions that left their respective coaches feeling good about the upcoming seasons. First-year head […]