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If Clemson can get back to the top, that will mark its seventh ACC title in eight seasons. That’s would be an unprecedented run, re-kindling memories of Florida State’s tear through the league in the 1990s.

Italian singer and songwriter Paolo Conte is a former lawyer from the small northern Italian town of Asti. He went from being an admirer of music to a musician in 1974 when he recorded his first album. He has since made a total of 11 albums.

JOHN GRISHAM cont'd.Rock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Earthling" the new album by David Bowie. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . .JOHN GRISHAM. . . the popular writer of legal thrillers has a new novel, "The Partner." He'll talk with Terry Gross about his work and about the law cases that inspired him to write. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.

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After an uncomfortable dustup between county leaders and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, they meet in private this week with no progress reported, but now the NAACP is calling for transparency and accountability from CMS for failing minority students. Plus, Credit Karma expands in Charlotte bringing 600 jobs, and the ACC baseball tournament and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 are in town at full capacity.

Clemson is the preseason pick to win the Atlantic Coast Conference for the seventh time in eight seasons. That's according to voting results released following last week’s ACC media days. Media members picked the Tigers on 103 of 164 votes.

The ACC Championship game between Clemson University and Notre Dame will be played at Bank of America Stadium on Saturday and ticket prices have skyrocketed from a year ago.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has canceled its tournament semifinal game between No. 16 Virginia and Georgia Tech due to a positive COVID-19 test, quarantining and contact tracing within the Cavaliers program. Georgia Tech advances to play the winner of North Carolina-Florida State.

UNC needs a step forward defensively from a unit returning seven starters, including Ray Vohasek (24 starts) up front and Tony Grimes (17) in the secondary. There’s also the arrival of coordinator Gene Chizik, who led a turnaround once before at UNC.

It's Sweet 16 time for the NCAA basketball tournament, and four men's teams and three women's teams from the Carolinas are competing. WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn sat down with Charlotte Observer sportswriter Langston Wertz, Jr. to discuss these ACC teams playing strong in the tournament at a time when the ACC has been called a weak conference.

College athletics are in a state of chaos. Most of this has centered around football, which brings in more revenue than most other NCAA sports combined. But there's been a cost. Regional ties are being lost and some conferences are fighting to avoid being left in the dust. That includes the ACC, which recently moved its headquarters to Charlotte.

Italy's premier announced his resignation and blamed his far-right coalition partner for undermining the government.

It's an unhappy week for sports promoters in North Carolina. Both the NCAA, on Monday, and the Atlantic Coast Conference, on Wednesday, said they're…

As the landscape in college sports shifts, the ACC shouldn’t have to worry about its schools leaving, but as the revenue gap between it and other conferences will only grow wider, anxiety about being left behind figures to build among its member institutions.

The Atlantic Coast Conference hired Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips on Monday to be the league’s next commissioner, replacing the retiring John Swofford.

On the local news roundup, North Carolina’s senators play a role in the U.S. Senate passing a bill to protect same-sex marriage. A big pay raise for Charlotte’s city manager and the ACC Championship comes to town for the sixth year in a row. Those stories and more with Mike Collins and local journalists.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is going forward with a plan to change its football scheduling model, with the biggest change being the elimination of divisions.

Monday it was the NCAA. Wednesday it’s the ACC. The Atlantic Coast Conference Council of Presidents announced today 10 league championships will not be…