Former N&O columnist Caulton Tudor, 70, left a legacy in and out of the sports pages

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The byline should have been the first clue.

Who knows how many other people have the given name Caulton, but there was only one Caulton Tudor.

Tudor covered it all – from the epic 1974 ACC title game between N.C. State and Maryland to Christian Laettner’s last-second shot to beat Kentucky in the 1992 NCAA tournament to the Stanley Cup and the Super Bowl – in more than 50 years in the journalism business.

Caulton Tudor died in his Raleigh home on Wednesday. He was 70.

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