Category: 2007

  • UNC’s Biscuit Burke goes pro

    CHAPEL HILL — Already on edge from the possibly impending announcement that the University of North Carolina basketball team's starting forward Brandan Wright would opt to leave school early to…

  • End the Legacy of Racism at UNC

    APOLOGIZING, as the NC Senate did recently, for slavery was a nice gesture. Now we should do something about it. Since slavery has been abolished already, without any help from…

  • A fan’s memo to Coach Butch Davis

    THE DOGWOODS are blooming; the sweet smell of pine pollen is in the air. That can only mean one thing: it's time for spring football — and for the fans…

  • Hollow Rock’s Most Mediocre Member

    (This article is re-printed from the very latest issue of the Hollow Rock Racquet and Swim Club Newsletter for those of you who aren't fortunate enough to be on their…

  • God drops out of NCAA playoffs

    VATICAN CITY and CHAPEL HILL — God announced today that He will cease immediately taking a position on specific sporting events, including, of most significance locally, the college basketball playoffs.…

  • We need to treat, not arrest, those with mental illness

    BEFORE I really begin, let me make one personal recommendation to you: If you are going to get a disease — choose your organ carefully — because if you have…

  • Hooters’ Carrboro encounter

    CARRBORO, N.C. — Hooters of America, Inc., the Atlanta-based operator and franchiser of Hooters restaurants, announced today that they will be opening a new franchise in Carrboro early next year.…

  • Duke discovers it’s in North Carolina

    DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University President Richard Broadhead announced today that researchers from the University's geography department had just discovered that the Duke campus was physically located in the state…

  • UNC finds cure for Political Incorrectness

    CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Political Incorrectness (PnC), a neurological condition often characterized by scholars as narrow-mindedness, can now be effectively and efficiently cured, researchers at the University of North Carolina…

  • Expanding on the ACC expansion

    After demonstrating that football is bigger than basketball at UNC (11/27/06), I will now undertake a much easier task: to show, two and a half years into the new and…