Category: Local
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?…
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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…
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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…
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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 —…