What a week it has been for Cal Raleigh. A two-homer game heading into the All-Star break gave him 38 for the season. Then he won the Home Run Derby. Then he batted cleanup in the All-Star Game and even won a ball-strike challenge. And now, the man nicknamed Big Dumper has a new endorsement deal.

One of the most obvious possible star athlete-business endorsement unions in the world finally became reality Wednesday as Seattle Mariners catcher Cal "Big Dumper" Raleigh has officially signed on to join the team at Honey Bucket,

The business, which started out of the trunk of a car, left its downtown Raleigh location on Fayetteville Street after receiving threats.

The National League bested the American League Tuesday night at Truist Park in Atlanta in one of the most entertaining All-Star Games in quite some time. The AL erased a 6-0 deficit in the final three innings,

Cal Raleigh’s historic home run pace this season has been one of the sport’s most discussed storylines in the first half. And though Monday night’s T-Mobile Home Run Derby victory obviously won’t count toward his overall total,

Raleigh Union Station, where a dozen Amtrak trains stop each day, sits on one side of downtown, while the city’s only local bus station is on the other. That changes Aug. 3, when a second downtown bus station opens next door to the train depot.

Four of five challenges of plate umpire Dan Iassogna’s calls were successful in the first All-Star use of the ABS system, which could make its regular-season debut next year.

Some 31 vehicles were broken into at five Raleigh churches this past weekend, with surveillance footage from one showing a smash-and-grab incident where a handgun and $2,000 cash were stolen.