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10.10.2019 10:45
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LUMBERTON, N.C. -- A handful of volunteers wait outside the nondescript warehouse as an 18-wheeler with the oversized Duke football helmet emblazoned along the sides rumbles to a stop. A few men wear work clothes. A few others are decked out in Blue Devils garb.I thought you were a North Carolina fan, one volunteer teases.Not today, the other replies.This is how it is throughout this region of flood-ravaged North Carolina these days. Theyre all on the same team. Rivalries disappear when someone is willing to chip in with some needed supplies.Dukes equipment truck backs into a loading dock while a half-dozen members of the Blue Devils football team -- all graduate students on an off week from classes -- pile out of a van to help unload the freight.There are diapers and toothpaste, cases of water and Gatorade, towels, blankets and pillows. There are sneakers and sweatshirts and a handful of Pinstripe Bowl Champions T-shirts, all donated from Duke for residents displaced from their homes in the wake of Hurricane Matthew and the flooding that followed.As soon as I told people we were struggling, there was a ton of stuff, said Duke wide receiver Kane Banner, a Lumberton native whose father coaches the citys high school football team. These guys taking time out of their day to come home with me -- theyve got busy schedules, but they saw one of their brothers was hurting.Duke hosted Army on Oct. 8 as the storm dumped rain across the East Coast. It was a bad storm, of course, but it wasnt until the game ended and Banner retrieved his cell phone that he started to grasp the impact on his hometown. There were calls from family and texts from friends. He flipped on the TV and saw the pictures. It was horrifying.Around the same time, Shayla Oxendine was trading texts with her brother. Oxendine is a Lumberton native, too, but she now lives in Raleigh and works for the US Marshals Service. Her entire family still lived in Lumberton, and as the flood waters rose, the text exchanges with her brother became more panicked. Late that evening, he finally decided to evacuate. He trudged through to his car, holding kids in each arm, water up to his waist.The following Monday, as Banner addressed his team asking for donations he could bring back home, Oxendine put in a call to her friend, Gerald Harrison, an associate athletic director at Duke. Both had the same idea.Duke is very giving to the community, so I sent an email in hopes of a reply, Oxendine said. This wasnt the reply I was expecting, but its so awesome. My heart is full.Harrison reached out to Duke coach David Cutcliffe, Cutcliffe talked with Banner and the drive to get supplies from Durham to Lumberton began.Players donated all they could, from old gear to canned goods. The school set up a promotion for the Blue Devils game against Virginia Tech on Nov. 5 -- with donations of three canned goods getting a discounted ticket. The school also gave Harrison a hefty budget to buy supplies to bring to Lumberton, so Harrison took the equipment staff on a shopping spree.We went out and lost our minds, Harrison said. Its funny, when you give yourself a budget thats pretty high, you just start throwing stuff in the cart.For Lumberton, every donation matters. The city -- along with a sizable portion of the Eastern part of North Carolina -- went without power for days, and without water for even longer. Even as Duke was delivering supplies nearly two weeks after the storm, residents were just beginning to return to their homes to inspect the damage. Along Almanac Road, in the Southern part of the town, doors were swung wide open to air out the flood-damaged furniture inside, and clothes hung on chain-link fences to dry. A horse farm still featured massive lakes of flood water. At the height of the destruction, Oxendine said, the heads of the horses sticking above the water line were all that could be seen.Back at Duke, the team felt the impact of the storm, too.I know weve had some parents coming to Durham to stay with their sons [after being displaced], Cutcliffe said last week. We prayed every day as a team for all of those people affected in our state.Banners family was safe. They had a few downed trees and a little water in the garage, but no major damage. They were the lucky ones.One of Banners friends from high school said his mother, aunt and grandmother all lost their homes, and they were hardly alone. More than 150 cots were laid out in a community gymnasium in the center of town for residents with nowhere else to go. Some came from surrounding counties as shelters there closed down; many were unsure when theyd get to go home. Dozens of volunteers from the American Red Cross and other organizations were there to help, and one by one, people from around the community came by to drop off blankets and food and water.They told me yall needed towels, one man told Red Cross volunteer Star Houston, the shelter manager, as he offloaded bags from his pickup truck. So I went and bought all of them I could find.The town simply wasnt prepared for destruction of this magnitude. Its the little things that matter so much now.They were people out on rubber rafts, putting senior citizens in boats to get them out, wading through the water, said Margaret Greene, a longtime Lumberton resident who has been in various shelters since the storm. So any help is good. Theyve been good to us.Dukes donations filled up the majority of the 18-wheeler, and players offloaded each item into the warehouse that now serves as a makeshift distribution center for victims. Its hardly an answer for people who lost everything, but its something, and that was important to Banner.The community in Lumberton and a dozen other small towns surrounding it are still hurting, and recovery is still a long way off, but Banner said he hopes they realize they arent alone.Its not just the stuff were bringing, but from a morale standpoint, Banner said. Lumberton is a tough city, but when you see people coming in to help, it gives you the mindset that things will be OK. Leandro Barbosa Jersey . Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers. Frank Kaminsky Suns Jersey .J. Jefferson has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend. https://www.thesunslockerroom.com/ . -- Jimmie Johnson held off a teammate, passed a pair of Hall of Famers, and dominated once more at Dover. Deandre Ayton Suns Jersey .J. Ellis hit two-run homers and the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 Saturday night. Elie Okobo Jersey . Cuban testified Thursday that he was upset when the companys CEO told him news that would reduce the value of his shares, for which hed paid $7.5 million. But he said he did nothing improper when he sold those shares over the next two days. ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The Game is set up to be a gem .No. 2 Ohio State (10-1, 7-1 Big Ten, No. 2 CFP) hosts rival and third-ranked Michigan (10-1, 7-1, No. 3 CFP) on Saturday with a lot on the line , and it could join a long list of memorable games in the storied series.Heres a look back, in chronological order, at some of the top games in one of the greatest rivalries in sports, according to AP Sports Writer Larry Lage.Lages first memory of The Game was in 1981 when Art Schlichter lifted the unranked Buckeyes to a 14-9 win over seventh-ranked Michigan with a touchdown near his fathers seats in Section 19. Lages first game story as a journalist covering the series came in 1995 when Tim Biakabutuka ran for 313 yards to help No. 18 Michigan beat No. 2 Ohio State 31-23. Lage has covered one Michigan road game in the series, a decade ago, and all the matchups at The Big House since 2001. The 43-year-old Lage played football across the street from Michigan Stadium at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School and one of his teammates was Mike Lantry, whose father was a central figure in The Games 10-10 tie in 1973.1950In what is remembered as the Snow Bowl, the unranked Wolverines beat No. 8 Ohio State 9-3 as the temperature hovered around 10 degrees with winds reaching nearly 30 mph and the white stuff making it tough to see or play. Ohio State fired coach Wes Fesler with an 0-3-1 record against the Wolverines. The Buckeyes ended up hiring Woody Hayes, a young coach from Miami (Ohio), to take his place.1969In Bo Schembechlers first game against Hayes , his mentor, No. 12 Michigan beat the top-ranked Buckeyes 24-12 at home. Hayes lamented the loss, saying the Schembechler-led Wolverines beat the best team he ever had. The game was the start of what became known as the Ten Year War, with Bo beating Woody five times, losing four games and finishing one famously tied.1973No. 1 Ohio State and No. 4 Michigan, both undefeated, battled in an instant classic to a 10-10 tie with enough drama to be the subject of a documentary, Tiebreaker . The Wolverines got the better of play, but kicker Mike Lantry missed two field goals in the last 2 minutes. Big Ten athletic directors chose the Buckeyes, not Michigan -- perhaps because quarterback Dennis Franklin got injured to represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl at a time when the conference would only allow one team to be in a bowl. The Big Ten would later decide to allow more than one school to participate in the postseason.1987Ohio State fired coach Earle Bruce just days before The Game after a three-game losing streak dropped his team to 5-4-1. The unranked Buckeyes, wearing white headbands with Bruces name written on them, beat the unranked Wolverines 23-20 to drop them to 7-4. Bruce was 81-26-1 overall, including 5-4 against Michigan, but Ohio State let him go and broughtt John Cooper to campus in a move many Buckeyes would lament because he went 2-10-1 in The Game.dddddddddddd1991The Game wasnt close that year as No. 4 Michigan routed No. 18 Ohio State 31-3, but it produced a favorite memory for fans north of the state line and a nightmare for those to the south. Desmond Howard, who hailed from Ohio, returned a punt 93 yards for a touchdown and famously struck a pose from the Heisman Trophy statue he later won.1997Like Howard, Charles Woodson crossed the border from Ohio to play for the Wolverines and ended up winning a Heisman Trophy in part because of a signature moment in The Game. Woodson returned a punt 78 yards for a score, sprinting up the same sideline -- Ohio States -- and into the same end zone that Howard did to help No. 1 Michigan beat No. 4 Ohio State 20-14 en route to a national championship.2002Maurice Clarett, playing in The Game for the only time, helped No. 2 Ohio State get past the 12th-ranked Wolverines 14-9 on the way to a national championship. On the final play, Will Allen sealed the victory for the Buckeyes by intercepting John Navarres pass just in front of the goal line. It was one of many victories in the rivalry for Ohio State coach Jim Tressel , who was 9-1 against the Wolverines before resigning in 2011 amid NCAA violations from a tattoo-parlor scandal.2003In the 100th game in the series, No. 5 Michigan beat No. 4 Ohio State 35-21 at the end of a dominant run that seems like a distant memory. The Wolverines were 18-9-1 from 1976-2003 under Schembechler, Gary Moeller and Lloyd Carr. Since Carr retired, Rich Rodriguez (0-3), Brady Hoke (1-3) and Jim Harbaugh (0-1) have combined to go 1-7 against the Buckeyes . Michigan leads 58-48-6 in part because college footballs winningest program started 13-0-2 in a series that dates to 1897.2006A day after Schembechler died, The Game featured the top-ranked teams in the country. No. 1 Ohio State beat No. 2 Michigan 42-39, building a 28-14 halftime lead and holding off the Wolverines after they pulled within four points twice in the second half. Ohio State pushed its lead back to 11 with 5:38 remaining in an entertaining contest that wasnt quite as close as the final score.2013No. 3 Ohio State held off the unranked Wolverines 42-41 when Tyvis Powell intercepted Devin Gardners 2-point conversion pass with 32 seconds left after Hoke, an Ohioan, chose to go for the win instead of taking his chances in overtime. Hoke disliked Ohio State so much he wouldnt say State when mentioning the school and couldnt recall wearing red.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25---Follow Larry Lage on Twitter at www.twitter.com/larrylage ' ' '

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