Category: Local

  • Smith’s Records Knight Won’t Break

    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…

  • How Does Wake’s Football Team Win?

    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…

  • Wasting Away in Krzyzewskiville

    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…

  • Can UNC Football be as Big as Basketball?

    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?…

  • Light Rail: A Great Idea Whose Time Has Passed

    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…

  • Get On Board with FireAnsonDorrance.com

    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…

  • Calculations in Katrina’s Aftermath

    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 —…