Category: Sports
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Predatory education bill passes North Carolina House
RALEIGH — A bill designed to end "predatory education" has passed the North Carolina House of Representatives. The proposed statute (HB 937) would ban predatory college tuition rates and limits…
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UNC women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell fired
CHAPEL HILL — Sylvia Hatchell has been summarily dismissed from her position as the University of North Carolina's head women's basketball coach, the University announced today. "It is with some…
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Brady benched; Bundchen in Super Bowl
AS OVER ONE BILLION EXPECTED VIEWERS await the coin toss, inside sources with the New England Patriots reported today that reigning league MVP quarterback Tom Brady will not play in…
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Courting racial equality in the ACC
THIS WEEK WE CELEBRATED the birth of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., a day which has been set aside to consider his work, his legacy and his unfinished mission.…
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Columns when I don’t have an idea
ONE QUESTION MANY OF MY LOYAL READERS (as well as some of my sometime skimmers) regularly ask me is this: "What do you do when you don't have any column…
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Dean Dome collapses from “jersey fatigue”
CHAPEL HILL — The roof of the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center collapsed last night causing major damage to the facility where the University of North Carolina plays its…
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Claus arrested in “Baby Jesus plot”
CHAPEL HILL — On Wednesday, following the culmination of a months-long racketeering investigation, agents from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation arrested Santa "Knicky" Claus on a charge of…
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Honky’s: “Just like eating at home”
AMONG THE PLETHORA OF ETHNIC RESTAURANTS in the greater Chapel Hill/ Carrboro area, one would be hard pressed to find even a sliver of space that hasn't long ago been…
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Meet Time’s 2006 Person of the Year: Me!
(Special to GaryGaddy.com, a column not heretofore published, but now, with newly lowered standards, available for public perusal, in a not-so-subtle bid to get Time to repeat me as Man…
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Jesus: I am not coming back
CHAPEL HILL – Just as the Christmas shopping season was beginning, a damper has come down on the holiday's festive spirit, as Jesus announced Wednesday that he is canceling his…
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