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Much has been made lately of Bobby Knight’s passing Dean Smith for the greatest number of wins in a men’s NCAA basketball coaching career; so much that I’m afraid it’s true.  As a Tar Heel fan, I am tempted to diminish Coach Knight’s accomplishment, but I going to resist, because like the “over-rated” chant, it…

I hate to be the one to jerk the glass slipper off Cinderella — but, since no one else seems willing to, I will. I could dance delicately around the facts — but what would be the point? Wake Forest’s football team got to the big ball (aka the Bowl Championship Series Orange Bowl), just…

The Robertson Scholars Program was such a good idea that there was no reason to expect that it would ever work. The Robertsons are idealists. They thought they could bridge the unbridgeable gulf: not between the Palestinians and the Israelis, not between the Bosnians and the Serbs, not between the Hutu and Tutsi, but worse,…

As we come to the end of football season, and to the beginning of basketball season, again the question is raised: Can football be as big as basketball at Carolina? This is the time to end this senseless speculation, this pointless exercise which goes on year after year — seemingly never coming to a solid…

Light rail is a great idea. This is just the wrong place and the wrong time for it. What will be light about light rail? The loads its cars will carry — and our wallets after our tax dollars are sucked out of them. And it will do nothing, or less, to solve our area’s…

Now that a new season has begun many would say it’s too late, but with an abysmal 4 and 1 record and one preseason poll picking them to finish 6th in the nation, it is clear something must be done about North Carolina women’s soccer program. No excuses about losing five starters to graduation, or…

OVER THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS major parts of America have been ripped apart by high winds and inundated by a flood filled with a noxious brew of stinking pollution — and that’s just what has come from talk radio, right and left.  If you alternate listening to a left-leaning Air America station and to Rush…