Scott Fowler

There was an NBA team playing in Charlotte Saturday night that was long considered a joke. ... Two great players can change everything in basketball.

Brian Pace, 39, is one of the best table tennis players in the nation. Good enough for the Olympics?

These games are in our backyard, and sometimes we take the North Carolina - Duke for granted because we get them like clockwork every February and March, but we shouldn't. We should celebrate them.

Four minutes in 1962. The life of Charlotte's Jim Beatty has been framed by those four minutes. It was 50 years ago this week when he became the first man to run a mile indoors in under four minutes, and the achievement still reverberates.

I know a lot of people like watching the Super Bowl pregame show. Not me. I like the game itself. I'm OK with the high-dollar commercials - for once, I won't DVR my way through all of them tonight.

Bismack Biyombo is the youngest active player in the NBA. He also seems to be one of its oldest souls.

Scott Fowler: Dale Earnhardt Jr. wasn’t popular at all in school, he says, but that has changed dramatically.

In his 23 years at Davidson, coach Bob McKillop has never seen one of his big men do what Jake Cohen is doing right now.

The first three classes of NASCAR’s Hall of Fame mostly have been reserved for the giants of the sport’s top series – men with names like Earnhardt, Petty, Pearson and France.

Let's get this out of the way first: There is no award called "Best NFL Rookie Season Ever." There is no vote. It's purely a mythical title.