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Former Clayton coach Glenn Nixon dies

Former Clayton High football coach Glenn Nixon died Tuesday morning after battling brain cancer.

N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star boys basketball

Rosters for this summer's N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star basketball game in Greensboro.

Includes Chapel Hill's Denzel Ingram, Garner's Dominique Reed and Millbrook's Shi'Chee Moore.

Kanaby: Title IX has helped high school athletics

Robert F. Kanaby, the former executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations, was in the area this week for the Durham Sports Club's annual award presentations.

NCHSAA playoffs

NCHSAA boys and girls lacrosse, dual-team tennis, girls soccer, baseball and softball playoff pairings.

NCISAA spring sports playoff schedule

Brackets and locations of N.C. Independent Schools Athletic Association playoffs in baseball, softball, girls soccer, 3A boys tennis, boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse and track & field.

Coaches will go to school

Some veteran North Carolina high school coaches will be brushing up on coaching basics during the next few years.

Sanderson names girls basketball coach

Sanderson High has named former boys  basketball assistant coach Glenn Frazier as its  new head women's basketball coach.

ACC football moves to Friday

The Atlantic Coast Conference’s new $3.6 billion television deal with ESPN includes three Friday games each year.

The N.C. High School Athletic Association has worked for years to keep the ACC from televising its football games on Friday nights, which are the traditional playing night for high schools in the state, but the tide could not be stopped.

NCHSAA baseball playoff pairings, 2012

The N.C. High School Athletic Association baseball brackets have been posted. Green Hope, East Chapel Hill, West Johnston and Wakefield earned No. 1 seeds in 4A brackets. Defending 4A champ Holly Springs is at Wakefield on Friday, but some games may be pushed to Thursday.