Category: 2009
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What it was was baskey-ball
YOU MAY REMEMBER last fall I gave up my regular column's space to my wife's cousin Bobo Herring from Traphill up in the Brushy Mountains so he could report to…
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Spittin’ distance down Tobacco Road
THE FORMULA FOR A RIVALRY is quite simple: The intensity of rivalry is multiplicative, combining the inverse of distance times density times elevation times frequency. This equation explains why the…
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Neutered Dictionary’s release postponed
CHAPEL HILL — The University of North Carolina Press announced today that the scheduled release of "The Roy Williams Dictionary of Neutered Synonyms: Inexplicit Interjections, Adjectives, Adverbs and Gerunds" has…
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Extending love to those in pain
AS A CHRISTIAN IT IS MY DUTY to aid the afflicted, to comfort those suffering hardship and to extend loving care to those in pain. So, in this season of…
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A pop quiz for my quizzical readers
PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ASKING ME, "What do you do?" Well, people, I'm not paid to take your pop quizzes. One good thing about being a Local Voices writer is that…
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I saw (or heard) it on the sidelines
MY WIFE AND I have really nice season tickets for the UNC women's home games. So good, sometimes we can't see the game. Like when the opposing coach stands up…
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The long and the shorts of it
ONCE, WHILE WATCHING A UNC MEN'S BASKETBALL GAME circa 1996, I wondered if we would ever see basketball "shorts" any larger than those worn by Serge Zwikker who stood 7-foot-3-inches…
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Dean Smith to coach Obama’s team
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Hall of Fame basketball coach Dean E. Smith announced today that he is coming out of his decade-long retirement to coach basketball again. Smith will be…
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Brightest guy in the room
HERB SENDEK IS MAKING ME LOOK GOOD. I said, when he was run out of town on a rail three years ago by the ever-thoughtful Wolfpack Nation, "In four or…
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Local writer treated for imperfection
Due to an unexpected hospitalization, the Local Voices column usually appearing in this space will not appear this week. The Chapel Hill Herald editorial staff hopes that its readers be…
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