This one comes from the N&O, reporting the news that USA Baseball is carrying on its Tar Heel state tradition again in this Olympic year:

U.S. baseball to play 4 games in Cary

The Associated Press

DURHAM - The U.S. Olympic baseball team will play four exhibition games in North Carolina before heading to the Beijing Games.

USA Baseball officials on Tuesday announced the team's pre-Olympic schedule. The U.S. will play Canada once at USA Baseball's national training complex in Cary on Aug. 1, and three times in Durham on Aug. 2-4.

The Americans have qualified for the Olympics in baseball for the first time since winning the gold at the Sydney Games in 2000....