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Sports Section

Remove: Duke University's men's basketball team draws a large following, selling out every home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium in 2009.[57] And replace it with: The city earning the accolade for the the Best City in America for College Basketball Fans by WalletHub. Duke University's men's basketball team draws a large following. In 2019, the Duke Men’s Basketball Twitter account reported 450 straight sellouts at Cameron Indoor Stadium, claiming it as the longest streak in collegiate basketball and the National Basketball Association. [Source: https://twitter.com/dukembb/status/1092842301871792130]

Change 26 sports to 27

Add paragraph: Across all sports, the Duke Blue Devils athletics teams have won a combined 17 NCAA National Championships – seven from women’s golf, five from men’s basketball, three from men’s lacrosse, and one from men’s soccer and women’s tennis. In May 2021, Duke announced Nina King as the next vice president and director of athletics. [Source: https://today.duke.edu/2021/05/nina-e-king-named-duke%E2%80%99s-vice-president-and-director-athletics] King is the first woman and person of color to lead Duke’s athletic department. On campus, there is a Duke Basketball Museum & Sports Hall of Fame that is open to the public.

Add paragraph about NCCU:

The North Carolina Central University athletic program also competes at the NCAA Division I level. [Source: https://nccueaglepride.com/sports/2010/6/29/ATHL_0629105213.aspx#:~:text=In%201971%2C%20NCCU%20was%20one,an%20NCAA%20Division%20II%20conference.&text=NCCU%20remained%20in%20the%20CIAA,(Football%20Championship%20Subdivision)%20membership]

John B. McLendon, a member of the National Basketball Hall of Fame, was an Eagle head coach from 1940 to 1952 and is credited as the developer of the zone press, fast break and four corners offense. He also orchestrated the first racially integrated college-level basketball game in the South in a game against Duke called “The Secret Game.” The men’s and women’s basketball team today play at the McDougald-McLendon Arena. The men made the NCAA March Madness Tournament in 2018 and 2019 after winning the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament both years. Dr. LeRoy T. Walker, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games after founding the university’s track and field program, and internationally-renowned artist Ernie Barnes, who played football at NCCU and in the NFL before creating famous paintings for the 1970s sitcom “Good Times,” are among other notable people with ties to NCCU Athletics. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLendon]

After paragraph about the Durham Bulls, add:

Tobacco Road FC, a semi-professional soccer men’s soccer team playing in the Premier Development League (PDL) plays at Durham County Memorial Stadium. [Source: https://www.tobaccoroadfc.com/] Nearly 70,000 fans also attend home football games for Shaw University, a Division II program from neighboring Raleigh, NC, played each year at Durham County Memorial Stadium. [Source: https://www.shawu.edu/athletic-giving/]

The Durham Sports Commission was established in 2016 as a collaboration of the City of Durham, Durham County, the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and Discover Durham. The 501©(3) is one of seven sports commissions across the state and is charged with creating economic and social impact by leading the community’s efforts to attract, support, and promote sports and recreational events. [Source: https://www.durhamncsports.com/about-the-dsc/]

Culture Section

Change title of Culture section to "Culture and Arts".

After: "A center of Durham's culture is its Carolina Theatre, which presents concerts, comedy and arts in historic Fletcher Hall and Independent and repertory film in its cinemas." add sentence from DPAC Wikipedia: “The Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) is the largest performing arts center in the Carolinas. DPAC hosts over 200 performances a year including touring Broadway productions, high-profile concert and comedy events, family shows and the American Dance Festival.”

Move and rephrase “Notable dining establishments are primarily concentrated in the Ninth Street, Brightleaf, and University Drive areas” to: Southern Living named Durham "The South's Tastiest Town”. [Source: https://www.southernliving.com/travel/tastiest-town-durham-north-carolina] Durham has notable dining establishments all over, especially in the downtown, Ninth Street, Brightleaf, and University Drive areas.

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Thank you for the help. I'm still getting used to the process. I've indicated above that I'll be using this as a draft until I'm ready to submit all the changes. CraigDotCarter (talk) 01:52, 2 June 2021 (UTC)