From 8:30 to 10:30 tonight, Chip Patterson and Hayes Permar will host a night of jokes, songs, bed-wetting ghost stories, and other entertainment from Serious Sports Productions. You may have heard some of their material on David Glenn’s shows on 850 the Buzz and 99.9 The Fan. The event takes place at the High Park Bar & Grill (corner of Whitaker Mill and Bernard).

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Kaye Cowher, the 54 year-old wife of former NCSU player and Steeler coach Bill Cowher, lost her battle with skin cancer Friday. The Bunn native and her husband moved here with their three girls after Bill’s retirement, and became a very supportive, tight family. They were frequently seen as a friendly, loving family at the daughters’ Ravenscroft sporting events and at North Ridge Club.

The Pittburgh Post-Gazette has a bit more on the story.

ECU Football fans who like electronic calendars rejoice! I’ve uploaded the 2010 ECU Football schedule in .ICS, and Google Calendar formats. This way you can easily port the schedule over to your Android phone, iPhone, Blackberry, Google Calendar, Outlook, and more!

Without a doubt, the gogoraleigh ECU Football Calendar is the best on the web. The game locations are included, so devices that can automatically associate the location field with a map will offer these locations as hyperlinks. This is perfect if you are going to the game in an away city! With the synced versions of the calendar, gametime changes and television information are automatically updated as the information becomes available.

If you already subscribe to last year’s ECU Football schedule feed, you don’t need to make any changes. The new events now appear in the feed. For those just getting started with this highly efficient method of scheduling, consult the calendars at the gogoraleigh Calendars’ page:

• gogoraleigh Calendars

Notes

Calendars are apt to change, so check back occasionally for updates. Use at your own risk. I do not accept responsibility for any consequences resulting from errors in the schedule.

Congratulations to Raleigh-native Josh Hamilton who was elected to his third MLB All-Star Team today. He is coming off a record-setting June with the most hits in a month in Texas Ranger history. The game takes place next Monday night, July 13.

Congratulations to Raleigh’s John Wall who was selected first overall by the Washington Wizards in tonight’s NBA Draft.

Canes hockey fans who like electronic calendars rejoice! I’ve uploaded the 2010-2011 Carolina Hurricanes schedule in .CSV, .ICS, and Google Calendar formats. This way you can easily port the schedule over to your Android phone, iPhone, Blackberry, Google Calendar, Outlook, and more!

Without a doubt, the gogoraleigh Hurricanes Calendar is the best on the web. Not only is the complete calendar available, but also a home-only version is available. For each event, the teams playing in the event are listed in 3-digit codes, so the entire event is easy to see on devices that can’t display wide paragraphs. Additionally, the game locations are included, so devices that can automatically associate the location field with a map will offer these locations as hyperlinks. This is perfect if you are going to the game in an away city!

Finally, with the synced versions of the calendar, gametime changes and television information are automatically updated as the information becomes available.

Android/Google Calendar Users

If you already subscribe to last year’s Carolina Hurricanes schedule feeds, you don’t need to make any changes. The new events now appear in the feed. For those just getting started with this highly efficient method of scheduling, consult the calendars at the gogoraleigh Calendars’ page:

• gogoraleigh Calendars

iPhone /Blackberry/Outlook/Palm Users

• Create a new folder in your in Outlook calendar (Canes11, for example). Use the File | Import and Export… to import from “another program or file”, then “Comma Separated File (Windows)”. This will set up the schedule in your new sub-calendar where you can make whatever changes you want.
• iPhone Users – You are done. Now you can view the Canes’ schedule as its own sub-calender or as a part of all calendars.
• When you are happy with the way the subcalendar looks, change the calendar view to “Events” (instead of 7-day or 31-Day or whatever view you’re using). “Select All” from the list, and drag them over to your main “Calendar” (The Treo and other Palm Handhelds only sync to the main calendar – time for Palm to get with the program on that one!). If you want to keep your sub-calendar intact, use Ctrl-drag instead of plain drag. That will create a copy of each event to the main Calendar and keep the Canes08 calendar in place. Sync your handheld to copy the events to the handheld.
• CSV Files. (right click on the link and “Save As…”)
  • Hurricanes Schedule (Complete) – Download canes_11.csv (version: 6/22/10)
  • Hurricanes Home-only Schedule – Download canes_11_home.csv (version: 6/22/10)

iCal Users

There are two options:

• Use iCalTextImport to import the .CSV version (linked above) of the schedule.
• Download the .ics files and import them into iCal.
  • Hurricanes Schedule (Complete) – .ics file (version: 6/22/10)

Notes

Calendars are apt to change, so check back occasionally for updates. To determine the version of your schedule, open the note associated with any event, and look for the version number. If your calendar is older than those listed above, simply delete the events in Outlook in your old one and import the events of the newer file. Google Calendar is dynamically up-to-date. Use at your own risk. I do not accept responsibility for any consequences resulting from errors in the schedule.

After 36 years in the Wake County Public Schools, one of the county’s legends in youth sports retired at the end of the school year. Bob Catapano began his career here as a math teacher at Martin Middle School, but soon moved to Sanderson where he was a math teacher, Men’s Soccer Coach, and for 27 years, was Athletic Director.

His overall record was an impressive 363-44-21 (.873), including 195 shutouts, 17 conference championships, and a national record-setting 103 consecutive games without a loss. Under Catapano, Sanderson brought home nine NCHSAA State Championships and two co-state championships.

More from the county’s website…

Ladies and Gentlemen…your 1998 Carolinaaaaaaaa Huricaaaanes. Remember the days of Jeff Brown, Adam Burt, Chris Murray, Kent Manderville, Nelson Emerson, and Curtis Leschyshyn? Take a look at this roster and it will bring back some big-time memories. Also interesting is Page 4 displaying the ticket prices. In 12 years they seem to have risen only around 20%. Not bad.

1997-1998 Hurricanes Roster (.pdf)

Tonight the Durham Bulls will play host to Toledo at the historic Durham Athletic Park. The park, featured in the movie “Bull Durham”, hasn’t hosted a Bulls game since September of 1994. Click here for parking and ticket information.