Category: Sports
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Expanding on the ACC expansion
After demonstrating that football is bigger than basketball at UNC (11/27/06), I will now undertake a much easier task: to show, two and a half years into the new and…
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ACC intellectualizes athletic schedule
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Under continuing criticism that it "overemphasizes athletics," the Atlantic Coast Conference has decided to add chess, bridge, crosswords and sudoku to its roster of public competitions. ACC…
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Leaving our state’s education to chance
Most of my columns to this point have been about various aspects of sport. This column is also about one of my very favorite sports: government bashing. Just like when…
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Devil’s Dictionary of college football bowls
Now that the college football bowl season is over, I would like to explain it to those many of you who are still confused. With apologies to Ambrose Bierce (the…
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How Everybody Wins: They Cheat!
Having exposed the Wake Forest University Demon Deacon football team for what they are (liars, cheats and thieves), I am now embroiled in further controversy. The vast unwashed masses which…
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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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