Charlotte Observer

Students of marketing should study the draft lottery as pure genius. The NBA recognized an embarrassment (teams intentionally losing games to chase the No. 1 pick) and corrected it with...

For the spectators in the Turn 4 section at Lowe's Motor Speedway, Saturday's Visionaire 500 is a haunting memory of flying rubber and metal, frantic screams and blood. A tire...

Lowe's Motor Speedway and Indy Racing League officials are investigating how a tire and debris from an accident on the track during Saturday night's race passed over a 15-foot fence...

New Orleans Saints coach Mike Ditka believes there are two musts in quarterback Kerry Collins' quest for happiness in life and the NFL. "I think he has to have a...

Mary Pryor, 81, cried the first time she went to day care. It was new and scary, and she worried that no one would come to pick her up. It...

Duke junior Trajan Langdon spent the better part of Sunday's game giving talented and talkative UCLA freshman Baron Davis a lesson in basketball. At the end, Langdon gave Davis a...

Some fans--lots--complain that it's always a bad game and swear they're not going to watch, and then they stock up on beer and chips and guacamole, turn on the TV...

It was 1958 and a buck was a buck. But Frank McGuire, head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, was demanding the chancellor pay a thin, twangy, deferential 27-year-old...

Brett Favre has grown to love Green Bay and the mystique of the Packers. He doesn't like the lack of privacy--fans have been known to spot him driving and follow...

Some swear it will never work -- an uptown Charlotte, N.C. apartment complex where single mothers on food stamps live next door to young professionals. But why not? It has...