The Cary Chargers will represent the Triangle's Consolidated Football
Federation in the Pop Warner Little Scholars Mid-South Regional
Football Championship on Nov. 28.

Playing in the Division III Junior Midget Division, the Chargers eliminated the  Central Virginia Steelers 14-6 on Saturday.

The Chargers were the only one of the final four remaining CFF teams to
advance. Cary will play the Middle Tennessee Vols on Nov. 28 in
Charlotte, CFF Commissioner Tom Goodwin said. (A full schedule is
below.) Several CFF cheerleading squads (a list is below) also will
compete that weekend in the Nov. 27 region cheerleading championships
in Charlotte.

The Wilders Grove Wolfpack, the Capital City Steelers and the Cary Chargers saw their Consolidated Football Federation teams advance to next week’s second round of the Pop Warner Little Scholars Mid-South Region playoff with victories Saturday. Several organizations also saw their cheerleading teams advance to the Nov. 27 region championships. (Results are below.)
- In a Division II Junior Peewee game, Capital City defeated the Churchland (Va.) Tigers 6-0.
- In Division II Midgets, Wilders Grove defeated the Suffolk (Va.) Steelers 6-0.
- In Division III Junior Peewee, Wilders Grove defeated the Havelock Rams 18-12.
- In Division III Junior Midgets, Cary defeated the New Bern Warriors 31-6.

Seven of the Triangle's Consolidated Football Federation teams will be playing in Raleigh on Saturday as the CFF hosts 12 first-round games in the Pop Warner Little Scholars Mid-South Region playoffs. (The schedule is below.)

Winners
of the 29 overall first-round games will advance to second-round games
on Nov. 14, and the winners of those games will advance to the Nov. 28
Turkey Bowl region championships in Charlotte.

Regional champions advance to the Pop Warner Super Bowl to be played Dec. 5-12 at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Remember back last week when UNC Chapel Hill hosted its first Thursday night football game?

Well, some folks got twisted a bit out of joint over it. (Click here and read the story and the comments...)

And to be sure, the UNC-CH faculty has long played a role in the university's decision not to schedule a disruptive Thursday night game on campus.

But UNC-CH made it happen this year. And if it bothered you, you're not alone. You need look no further than Blacksburg, where your Tar Heels will tonight be squaring off against the Virginia Tech Hokies. There, too, classes are being let out early due to the game, though it's being done on less of a formal basis.

And there, too, some faculty say a Thursday football game, broadcast nationally on ESPN, essentially proves that athletics trumps academics.

The Washington Post has this topic covered in some detail in today's paper, and the story ends with this quote from a Virginia Tech prof, proving that not every academic sees the issue the same way.

A football team "does great things for the university, much more so than somebody discovering something in their PhD dissertation, which five people read. That's true, and we're going to have to live with it."

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If you're one of 60,000 football fans heading to Chapel Hill for the Florida State game this evening, remember these words: park and ride.

Most Carolina football fans are familiar with all the places around town where you can leave your car and board a Tar Heel Express bus that will deliver you to Kenan Stadium for the 8pm kickoff.

The bus makes your ride easier, and it cuts down on traffic hassles for everybody else.

And the combination of football and rush hour guarantees that there will be traffic delays this evening.

See photos from the Carolina Panthers NFL game against the Atlanta Falcons.

See photos from the N. C. State vs. Murray State game.

See a First Look gallery of the Murray State vs. N. C. State football game.

See a photo gallery of UNC's 12-10 win over Connecticut on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.

See a gallery of photos from several selected high school games in the Triangle area.