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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The three-time ACC Player of the Year and product of Northwest Guilford High School and Virginia Tech was the only North Carolina native selected in the 2024 WNBA Draft. She joins a Las Vegas team seeking its third straight WNBA title.
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No. 1 South Carolina remained undefeated in Cleveland, Ohio’s Rocket Mortgage Arena on Friday night, topping No. 3 N.C. State 78-59 in the Final Four for women’s college basketball.
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Behind an impressive performance of 27 points, six rebounds and four assists from Aziaha James, North Carolina State’s women’s basketball team is going to the Final Four for the first time since 1998.
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After winning the ACC Tournament by capturing five victories in five days, N.C. State's men's basketball team joins Duke and North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament. Here's everything you need to know about March Madness for the Triangle schools.
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By beating N.C. State 55-51, Notre Dame coach Niele Ivey became the first Black woman to win an ACC tournament title.
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Two Republican races for U.S. Congress in North Carolina will advance to a second primary on May 14. Brad Knott finished second to Kelly Daughtry for the 13th Congressional District, while Mark Walker finished second in the 6th District to Addison McDowell.
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Change coming for women’s ACC Tournament, but N.C. State, Duke, UNC focused on winning in GreensboroThe ACC women's basketball tournament will experience a handful of changes over the next few seasons, adding new teams and changing venues. But for now, the focus is on the championship in Greensboro.
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Sylvan Esso, the Durham-based electronic pop duo, is bringing a new music festival — "Good Moon" — to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park this summer.
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Durham Public Schools will reduce raises given to some staff. In its place, all classified staff – nearly 1,900 employees – will get an 11% raise.
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While it comes with its critics and concerns, sports betting could benefit 10 UNC System schools, including UNC Pembroke, in a big way. Once betting begins, those schools – the 10 with the smallest athletic department budgets – will split 20% of the yearly tax revenue from legal gambling in North Carolina.