Category: Sports
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What’s so bad about falling housing prices?
Originally written on November 11, 2007 and, sadly, unpublished until now because it wasn't funny enough. It's still not that funny. WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT falling housing prices? When the…
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A spare column on bowling trophies
WHEN SURVEYING THE TROPHY CASE in our home, people often say: "Tell us about your bowling trophy," frequently just after asking, "So, what's this archery trophy all about?" The archery…
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What it was was football redux
Last week my wife's cousin, Bobo Herring, from Traphill up in Wilkes County, visited the University of North Carolina with his eldest son. Willy Bob has been offered a Morehead…
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An Olympic collection of odds ‘n’ ends
BEIJING, via satellite — As the XXIX Olympiad has drawn to close, I can now see the many lessons that I have learned from watching the dedicated and hardworking athletes…
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Great Dates in “Local Voices” Column History: The Thursday Edition
MANY COLUMNISTS, perhaps due to what some see as undue adulation that columnists receive from the reading public, become vain, self-centered, ego-centric and can only think "I, me, mine." Well,…
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Just two songs away from Galax
GALAX, Va. — No, this is not going to be one of those lame "What I Did Last Summer" essays like the ones you had to write on the first…
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UNC’s All-time All-airport Team
WITH THE RETURN to UNC's men's basketball team of Wayne Ellington, Danny Green and Tywon Lawson, a team that includes all the players from last year's squad except for reserves…
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The decline and fall of U.S. tennis
ASHEVILLE — The sad state of American tennis has been much discussed lately. And the saddest state of all is the inability of an American to win on clay. Last…
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Chapel HIll Herald’s Regular Thursday Columnist recognized
HILLSBOROUGH — Gary D. Gaddy, the Chapel Hill Herald's leading regular Thursday columnist was recognized on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 for his authorship of a "local paper column." Gaddy, who…
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Down Under at the Hollow Rock Club
As much as I hate to admit it, the tennis director at my tennis club, the Hollow Rock Racquet and Swim Club, Inc., is Australian. He's a likeable enough mate,…
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