Category: Gary D. Gaddy Columns
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NCAA and UNC football inquiries end as players cleared
CHAPEL HILL — The ongoing internal and external investigations of the University of North Carolina football program came to an abrupt end Thursday as the NCAA acknowledged that both prongs…
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Dear Anne Marie: a thank you note to my niece
DUE TO MY HEAVY INVOLVEMENT in my niece's wedding this past weekend, I did not have time to write a column. In lieu thereof, I am publishing a copy of…
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It’s time for a timely yet timeless column
SOMETIMES I LIKE TO WRITE timeless columns. Now many authors have written timeless works, like Mark Twain writing Tom Sawyer, or Tolstoy writing War and Peace, or Shakespeare writing one…
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“Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus,” a cautionary tale
ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – I really would like to say that it wasn't my fault – but I can't. I really can't. Four years ago on the weekend of the…
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What it was was futbol — again
A WHILE BACK MY WIFE'S FIRST COUSIN (once removed), Bobo Herring, came down from Traphill up in Wilkes County to visit his eldest son. Willy Bob, who now goes by…
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Living easy in the fourth-ranked state of laziness
I GOT UP LATE yesterday morning. I was still lounging around in my pajamas, reading the saved up papers, trying to catch up on the news I missed while on…
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Plumlees’ gain majority, wrest power from Krzyzewski
DURHAM — Duke University head men's basketball coach Michael Krzyzewski's 30- year coaching reign effectively ended on Tuesday, say multiple sources close to the program. The Plumlee Family Syndicate, LLC,…
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The Decision: Gaddy to stay put at The Chapel Hill Herald
CHAPEL HILL — Swirls of speculation and unprecedented journalistic frenzy — stirred by the recent Lebronathon — came to a head this week with the growing recognition that a local…
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Documenting the undocumented workers
I HAD BEEN HEARING ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, and I wondered what all the brouhaha was about. I looked up illegal and found out it meant "not legal" — and so…
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The gravity of the law: defy it at your own peril
THE LAW OF GRAVITY IS. No point in discussing it, because you are not going to change it. You don't have to like it, but you will obey it —…
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