American Tobacco Goes International

American Tobacco - Voice of America

Have you ever wondered what American Tobacco sounds like In Russian?  Well, actually, it sounds like saying “American Tobacco” with a Russian accent, but you can listen to an entire video about the campus in Russian in the first Voice of America piece about the downtown Durham destination. American Tobacco’s first Voice of America piece […]

A Most Faithful Fan

Bobbie & Marvin Wheeler

Capitol Sports Vice President George Habel posted the tribute ‘A Most Faithful Fan’ in his blog ‘Note to Self’: You think you’ve seen a lot of baseball, that you are committed to your job, but then you encounter fans like Bobbie and Marvin Wheeler. You stand humbly in their shadow. As the Wheelers neared retirement […]

Capitol Women’s Network Spends Morning Working at Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm

Capitol Women's Network

Team Building While Serving the Community Last Thursday, July 13, 2017, 24 CBC women met up to give back to the community at the Inter-Faith-Food Shuttle Teaching Garden.  Members of the Capitol Women’s Network (CWN) turned a group get together into a morning of service.  The women in CBC’s Durham divisions usually meet separately from […]

DREAMS OF GOLD. The Olympic Festival 1987

Bob Holliday & Jay Jennings

Everyone is familiar with the Olympics, summer and winter. But did you know there was an event, a warmup of sorts, for the Olympics? It was called the U.S. Olympic festival. This amateur sport spectacular started in 1978 and was originally called the National Sports Festival. It was the nation’s largest amateur sporting competition. The […]

Bull Durham Beer: It’s in the Can

Bull Durham Beer cans

Have you heard? There is an exciting update with Bull Durham Beer! Bull Durham Beer Company has put their flagship Kolsch in cans, available at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, Harris Teeter and Target. Check out this video with Joe Ovies, 99.9FM The Fan, and Sebastian Wolfrum, Executive Brewmaster, for more about Kolsch in cans! Thanks […]

Raleigh Sports Radio Debuts Transplant Tuesday Around 30 For 30 Film

Transplant Tuesday

99.9 The Fan to show special screening of ‘Mike and the Mad Dog’ to launch promotion 99.9 The Fan is excited to announce a promotional partnership with ESPN and its 6-week summer series with ‘Transplant Tuesday’ starting Tuesday, July 11th. With the ‘Triangle’ in Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill, NC being a huge destination for […]

Four Bulls Named to IL All-Star Team

2017 Durham Bulls All-Stars

Adames, Kittredge, Leonard, Marjama to represent Durham Four Durham Bulls have been selected to the International League All-Star team for the 2017 Triple-A All-Star Game, the league announced Thursday. Infielders Willy Adames and Patrick Leonard, catcher Mike Marjama and relief pitcher Andrew Kittredge will represent the first-place Bulls at the 30th annual Triple-A All-Star Game at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, Wash. on Wednesday, […]