Category: Sports
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Anchors aweigh, or, winning the lottery for real
MANY AMERICANS DREAM about winning the lottery. Some of them so much so that they are willing to buy lottery tickets to try to do it – which indicates that…
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Which are they, voter-owned or tax-payer-extorted elections?
CHAPEL HILL CALLS its "clean-elections" local ordinance "Voter-Owned Elections." Who could be against that? Somebody? Anybody? OK, if none of you will volunteer, I guess that leaves me. Advocates of…
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How a gracious Jeff Saturday found the light
LIKE "THE PURLOINED LETTER" in the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, offensive linemen like Jeff Saturday are hidden in plain sight. Every snap of the football that goes to…
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Pluggin’ in in 2011: Can electric cars save the planet?
THE OTHER DAY my tennis buddy Bob Clark and I went to Raleigh to Plug-In 2011, a conference on electric and hybrid electric vehicles. We carpooled in his Jetta SportWagen…
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Affluenza pandemic has abated, but may recur
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The recent pandemic of affluenza which swept across America, as well as major parts of western Europe, may have abated, but, University of North Carolina experts…
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Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics: Facts that speak for themselves
EVER WONDER WHY THE RECOVERY from this current recession is taking so long? Historically, sharp economic declines are followed by steep bounces back up. But not this time. The other…
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Pick your apocalypse; don’t wait ’til it’s too late
WE LIVE, I WOULD CONTEND, in the era of the apocalypse, meaning the end of life as we know it. Whether one will soon come to pass, of that I…
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Viagra and blue M&M’s in unprecedented joint recall
McLEAN, Va. — In an unprecedented joint-recall announcement Mars and Pfizer Incorporated have requested that consumers return to the place of purchase all blue M&M's and Viagra® tablets bought between…
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Cisco/Crisco merger to produce slickest high-tech yet
SAN JOSE, Calif. and ORRVILLE, Oh. — Cisco Systems®, the leading supplier of networking equipment and Crisco® Oils and Shortenings, a spin-off from the J.M. Smucker Company, announced today the…
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Cuba’s Castro undergoes deathbed conversion, reports say
HAVANA and MIAMI – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has become a capitalist, close aides report. Lying on what appeared to be his deathbed, the former communist dictator reflected on…
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