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How a Queer Soccer League Is Reshaping Community in Charlotte
Visit Clanton Park or Alexander Street Park on any given Sunday and you might just stumble into a group of people huddled on a soccer field sharing introductions and their preferred pronouns. This isn’t your average pickup game of soccer, though. This is practice for Charlotte Pride Football Club, the…
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Panthers Shore Up Weak Spots with Strong Offseason Thus Far
Despite finishing the 2024-25 season with a 5-12 record, there were reasons to be positive about the Carolina Panthers coming into the current offseason. That optimism can be based as much on what we did not see as what we did. For one, we didn’t see (or hear) much of…
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‘Same Old Song’ as Hornets Wrap Another Disappointing Season
Despite double-digit scoring from five Charlotte Hornets players in a game that featured no regular starters from either side, the Hornets dropped a seventh straight game on Sunday to wrap their season 2024-25 season on Sunday — winning just one of their final 13 games and ending the season with…
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New Dad Brandt Bronico Won’t Stop Until He Has His Trophy
“I want to win some trophies this year.” We were 30 minutes into a conversation with Charlotte FC midfielder Brandt Bronico and the MLS veteran was ready to answer my question before I finished it. “We gotta start bringing some trophies to Charlotte,” says Bronico. “Obviously, top four is a…
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One Year Later, Was Legalizing Sports Gambling in NC a Smart Bet?
March 11 marked precisely one year since North Carolina lawmakers legalized sports betting in the state. The law made North Carolina the 38th state to legalize sports betting and the 30th (along with Washington D.C.) to offer mobile sports wagering. At first glance it looks like the Tar Heel State’s…
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Meagan McClelland Leads From Behind as USL Super League’s Top Goalkeeper
In 2024, the United Soccer League’s Super League and Carolina Ascent FC brought top-tier women’s professional sports back to Charlotte for the first time since the Charlotte Sting last played in 2006. Many of the faces involved were familiar to the Charlotte soccer community. Charlotte Independence owner Dan DiMicco would…
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HopFly Brewing Co. Creates a Home for Charlotte FC Fans
On Saturday, Feb. 22, in Seattle, Charlotte FC’s 2025 MLS season got underway. Nearly 3,000 miles away in Charlotte, fans of the team packed a two-story brewery located just a half-mile south of Bank of America Stadium. A DJ booth complete with lights and a fog machine sat at the…
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5 Things to Know: Hornets Owners All in on Charlotte Sting Return
Hornets Owners All in on Charlotte Sting Return The Charlotte Hornets’ new ownership group confirmed Tuesday that it is actively supporting a bid to bring the Charlotte Sting back into the fold as part of an imminent WNBA expansion. The bid is being led by Erica Berman, senior VP of…
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Hornets Stumble Through Trade Deadline With Questions Unanswered
With 52 games in the books and the trade deadline past, the Charlotte Hornets’ first season with Jeff Peterson at the helm and Charles Lee behind the bench hasn’t thus far looked much different than past iterations of the team. Well past the halfway point of the 2024-25 season, the…
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Bryce Young and Panthers End Season on High Note
If someone were to tell you before the 2024 Carolina Panthers season that the team would finish 5-12, you would likely shrug and say “That sounds about right,” assuming it was business as usual for a franchise that hasn’t even sniffed .500 for seven years. As anyone who watched the…
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Improved Bryce Young Gives Panthers Momentum Going Into Bye
Fresh off a 20-17 overtime win against the New York Giants in Munich, Germany, on Nov. 10, the Carolina Panthers find themselves on a two-game winning streak — a touch of momentum as the team returns stateside. Not the best time for a bye week. The Panthers now have a…
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A Look Into Charlotte FC’s First Playoff Series
This postseason, Charlotte FC lived by the pen and died by the pen. And by pen, of course, I am referring to penalty kicks. Charlotte FC finished its third season with 51 points from 14 wins and nine draws, sending them into the playoffs as the fifth seed, the…
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Charlotte Hornets Enter New Season with Growth Front of Mind
It is far from breaking news that the 2024-25 season will be one of transition for the Charlotte Hornets. With a new general manager in Jeff Peterson and new head coach in Charles Lee, we have just gotten a first look at the habits and lines of thinking from the…
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Darius Lockhart’s ASÉ Wrestling Centers Mental Health, Black Culture
Anyone who’s watched even a few minutes of a wrestling match knows that the sport is a physically taxing one. The wear-and-tear that the sport puts on the bodies of athletes has to be experienced to be explained. What many don’t know is that the sport wreaks just as much…
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Vegas Win Provides Hope but Panthers’ Future Remains Unclear
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but the Carolina Panthers are hoping that’s not the case after Sunday. With Andy Dalton behind center following the benching of second-year QB Bryce Young, the Panthers dismantled the Raiders 36-22, returning home this week with a newfound momentum after the…
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Queen City Nerve’s Guide to Tennis and Pickleball in Charlotte
Yes, we know, you’re sick of hearing about pickleball. But did you know that, coming out of the Olympics and for years before that, the old-school game of tennis has also been on the rise? The Williams sisters started a surge in popularity among women of color, helping to diversify…
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