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North Carolina’s loss to TCU might be the focus of many in the college football world after their embarrassing showing on Monday night, but they were not the only team that struggled mightily in Week 1 of the college football season locally. After so much optimism about the hire of Tim Albin, the Charlotte 49ers […]

The Charlotte 49ers get ready to kick off their 2025 season on Friday night when they take on the App State Mountaineers in an in-state Group of 5 matchup in the Duke’s Mayo Classic from Bank of America Stadium. The Niners will be looking to turn their program back in the right direction under the […]

The college football season gets started in full tonight, as ECU takes on NC State, to kick off five straight days of games involving teams from the Carolinas, including tomorrow’s Duke’s Mayo Classic, featuring App State and Charlotte, two programs that are breaking in first-year head coaches at their respective schools. Dowell Loggains arrives at […]

The time has finally arrived once again for yet another college football season, and in the Queen City, it starts with a bang, as the Charlotte 49ers take on the App State Mountaineers on Friday night. Both App State AD Doug Gillin and Charlotte AD Mike Hill joined Kyle Bailey to preview both schools’ respective […]

The opening weekend of college football kicks off this weekend and the eyes of the locals here in Charlotte are on the matchup between the Charlotte 49ers and Appalachian State Mountaineers in Bank of America Stadium on Friday night. Both teams will be looking to earn a first win for their new coaches at their […]

You know the college football season is near when the annual Phil Steele magazine hits the shelves at your local Barnes & Noble bookstore, and that’s exactly where we are in the off-season calendar, with media days starting this week, and fall camp just around the corner. Phil Steele has been publishing his annual magazine […]

The spring football period has come and gone, marking the end of Tim Albin’s first spring with the Charlotte 49ers after getting hired away from Ohio last off-season. After two disastrous seasons under Biff Poggi, Charlotte is looking for stability on and off the field as they try to establish themselves as contenders in the […]

Bryce Young is set to enter his second season as an NFL QB and is looking to solidify himself as the QB of the future for the Carolina Panthers. If Young's struggles from last season continue, it'll likely force the franchise to go in a different direction, to find the franchise QB they've been looking for since Cam Newton. 

In today's college athletics, there isn't much of an off-season for major sports like football and basketball, which makes for a busy spring on and off the field. For Charlotte, while they failed to make the NCAA Tournament, they've been busy trying to rebuild their roster for 2024-25. Biff Poggi completed his second spring, as Charlotte's head football coach, as he looks to guide the 49ers to their second-ever bowl appearance, and Charlotte softball made the NCAA Tournament, after winning the American Conference tournament, their first season in the conference. 

When you don't have a baseball team, and your NBA team isn't playing deep into the postseason, the late spring, and early summer months can be lean for a sports radio host, or even a sports columnist. Except in Charlotte, where there always seems to be something worth writing, or talking about, going on. This week hasn't been any different, with the Panthers taking the field for the start of OTAs, the 65th running of the Coca-Cola 600 is this Sunday, and that's right, Hornets guard LaMelo Ball is in the news again, this time facing a lawsuit, after allegedly running over an 11 year old's foot. 

Dave Canales was the only head coach of a local football team that stopped by with the Mac & Bone Show earlier this morning. For the first time this offseason, the guys were joined by Charlotte 49ers head coach Biff Poggi as they discussed a variety of different things. The guys started off by talking […]

When Mike Hill left Florida for Charlotte, he was motivated to build one of the top athletic departments at the Group of 5 level, and after a long wait, combined with a lot of hard work, it appears his vision is coming to fruition. The men's basketball team finished third in the American this past season, they just hired an accomplished coach to guide the women's program, and after an uneven first season of the Biff Poggi era on the football field, Charlotte could contend for a bowl game in 2024. The icing on the cake happened over the weekend, as Charlotte's softball team won the American Conference tournament, clinching a spot in the NCAA Tournament.