Mitchell Northam
Digital News ProducerMitchell Northam is a Digital Producer for WUNC. He was born in Iceland, but grew up eating blue crabs and scrapple on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
In addition to working at the Delmarva Daily Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, his work has also been featured at SB Nation, the Orlando Sentinel, NCAA.com, Sports Illustrated, Pittsburgh Sports Now, and the Associated Press. He is a graduate of Salisbury University and has won awards from the MD-DC Press Association and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. He is also a voter in the AP Top 25 poll for women's college basketball.
His first book — "High School Basketball on Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Shore Hoops History" — was published in May 2022.
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For the first time since 1996, NASCAR is back at the North Wilkesboro Speedway. The sport will host its All-Star race there this Sunday, and it was made possible, in part, by the use of federal funds through the American Rescue Plan Act. -
The movie theater business has reemerged from the darkness brought on by the global pandemic. Four months into 2023, seven films have already topped $100 million at the box office.
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Wawa has hundreds of locations, and it’s planning to build another one in Kill Devil Hills soon.
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Wrexham AFC – the Welsh soccer club co-owned by Reynolds – will face off against Chelsea FC in a friendly match on July 19 at Kenan Stadium, home of the UNC Tar Heels’ football team.
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Biden will visit the Durham-based company Wolfspeed, which recently announced an expansion, including a new computer chip facility in Chatham County that will have an estimated 1,800 jobs.
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This weekend, Duke could feel like one of the centers of women’s college basketball. For the first time since 2017, the Blue Devils will host games during the first weekend of the women’s NCAA Tournament. Meanwhile, UNC and N.C. State are part of eight ACC teams in the field.
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The Blue Devils are North Carolina’s highest-seeded team in this year’s tournament, but they’re joined by 10th-seeded N.C. State, and No. 15 UNC-Asheville.
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Elizabeth Kitley and Cayla King, graduates of Northwest Guilford High School, were crucial to Virginia Tech capturing an ACC women's basketball championship win over Louisville.
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All three women’s college basketball teams in the Triangle — Duke, UNC and N.C. State — are ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll this week. The success of these teams is driving interest and historic ticket sales among local fans and students.
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State Auditor Beth Wood says she regrets the incident that led to her being charged with hit-and-run and unsafe movement. Wood released a statement Monday morning after the charge became public last week.
