Month: February 2019

Tom Dundon is a sports fan with money and it’s abundantly clear he is willing to spend it to become a major player in the sports world. The Hurricanes owner will be unveiled as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alliance of American Football on Tuesday, all thanks to a $250 million investment. The news was first reported late Monday by David Glenn of The Athletic Carolina. “This was a terrific…

Jeff Elsey has moved around a lot over the past 18 months. The Galveston County Daily News reports after spending about 24 hours in his attic when Hurricane Harvey flooded his home in August 2017, Elsey, 47, and his family spent some time at a friend’s house, then more time in a new RV camper, and then more time in a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer parked in his backyard. On Friday, he moved again,…

Not content merely with owning a professional team, Tom Dundon is buying a professional league. The Carolina Hurricanes owner was named chairman of the new Alliance of American Football on Tuesday after stepping in with a cash infusion to become the league’s primary investor, and the question most pressing in this market has nothing to do with football: How will it affect the Hurricanes? “It won’t at all,” Dundon said. “Although I talk to (general…

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WTVD) — Not many families would say that losing their home to a hurricane is a blessing. For 8-year-old Perryn Miller, that’s exactly what Hurricane Florence was. After Florence destroyed his family’s Wilmington home in September 2018, they set out to spend Christmas with Perryn’s grandparents in Utah. Prior to the storm, the boy had been experiencing headaches, which gradually grew in severity. His doctors in North Carolina said that the headaches were…

So who’s the jerk here? The Carolina Hurricanes have attracted a lot of attention with their postgame palooza after wins at PNC Arena. On Friday, after a 3-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers, Warren Foegele connected on a “walkout homer” off Dougie Hamilton that touched off a wild celebration at “home plate” with his teammates after he touched all the “bases.” That also touched off a diatribe from Don Cherry, the bombastic one on Hockey…

The growing realization that ever-more ferocious storms are becoming more common as the result of global warming is forcing government officials to revisit how they respond to natural disasters. In South Carolina late last year, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster created a special floodwater commission. The group will be tasked with figuring out how to better combat flooding unleashed by hurricanes, rising ocean levels and other rain systems upstream that send rivers and creeks over their…

Among the challenges facing North Carolina after Hurricane Florence was how to deal with 4.2 million dead chickens and turkeys that drowned in flooded poultry houses throughout the southeastern part of the state. The solution the state Department of Agriculture came up with has resulted in tons of fertilizer for farmers to spread on their fields in advance of planting this spring. Most of those dead birds were mixed with wood chips and sawdust and…

Nino Niederreiter scored two goals, Curtis McElhinney stopped the final 40 shots he faced, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-1 on Friday night. Lucas Wallmark also scored and Sebastian Aho had two assists for the Hurricanes, who have won 15 of 21 since Dec. 31 for the best record in the NHL in that span. Carolina moved a point behind idle Pittsburgh for the final wild-card playoff spot in the East. Leon…