The Rocky Mount Telegram

DOWN EAST VIKING FOOTBALL CLASSIC

Schools working to keep Classic in Rocky Mount beyond 2013

Telegram photo / Alan Campbell

Elizabeth City State University football coach Waverly Tillar, third from left, shares a laugh with Fayetteville State University Director of Athletics Dr. Edward McLean, center, and Fayetteville State University football coach Kenny Phillips following a press conference for the 13th annual Down East Viking Football Classic on Thursday at Rocky Mount City Hall.

Rocky Mount Mayor David Combs presided over a press conference Thursday morning at City Hall to announce that the Down East Viking Football Classic will return to Rocky Mount for the 13th consecutive year.

LEGION BASEBALL HEADLINES

HEADED HOME: Coleman-Pitt Post 58 eliminated from state tournament
ASHEBORO — Brandon Denton turned at the waist. His right hand gripped the baseball at his chest, before it reached back to throw a potentially season-saving pitch — if only for another half inning.

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What does Sports writer Nick Cammarota think about the latest in Legion Baseball playoffs?

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COLLEGE HEADLINES

After busy summer, ACC ready for football season
GREENSBORO — So much for a lazy summer at Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters.

Realignment rumors. An NCAA investigation into agent involvement with players at one of its marquee institutions.

No wonder the ACC is ready for the offseason to end and the football games to begin.

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HIGH SCHOOL HEADLINES

Melvin chooses Ripon College
Rocky Mount High senior Zachary Melvin knows a thing or two about adjusting.

And there’s no doubt the rising senior will need to do a lot of it when he begins school at Ripon College in 2011. Ripon is a Div. III school in Wisconsin which boasts a soccer program that has made two NCAA tournaments and won four Midwest Conference championships.

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PROFESSIONAL HEADLINES

A humble start to camp for Panthers QB Clausen
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — If Jimmy Clausen indeed becomes Carolina’s franchise quarterback, it’ll be after overcoming a humble beginning to his professional career.

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LOCAL SPORTS COLUMNS

GRILLO: Golf helps troubled children
Whenever my brother, Al, and I got out of control as kids, my mother would threaten us with something that sounded similar to, “If you don’t start behaving, I’m sending both of you to reform school.”

Glen Mills School, a reformatory for boys 15 to 18 years old was less than 20 miles from our suburban Philadelphia home.