Category: Sports
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Living by John Wooden’s five-and-a-half-point creed
WHEN A GREAT MAN DIES, great words get written about him. Earlier this month, at the age of 99, a truly great man, John Wooden, died. The legendary coach of…
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Exterminating the insidious evil of “We” and “They”
IN MAY OF 2000 my wife and I spent three weeks in Sarajevo, courtesy of the U.S. State Department. Four and a half years after the end of hostilities in…
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The freedom to “Choose Life” — or perhaps not
I RECENTLY GOT a specialized license plate for my car. The special plate I chose has an interlocking "N" and "C" on it, but there are also plates honoring, and…
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College basketball, the season now under review
JUST AS THIS WAS THE SEASON where college basketballdom discovered the wonderful innovation of stopping every game with 14 minutes left to go in the first half to spend several…
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Why angry and aggravated Arizonans are angry and aggravated
MY SWEET, SMART MOM ASKED ME why what was going on in Arizona was going on in Arizona. "Wasn't America made up of immigrants?" she asked. It is a good…
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Who hates Duke? Not me, certainly not me
HAVING BEEN A CAROLINA BASKETBALL FAN ever since Al Wood's senior season (which just so happened to be my first year in graduate school at UNC's illustrious School of Journalism…
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Duke basketball victory celebration muted
DURHAM — Amid the whoops and hollers, and the traditional bonfire bench burnings, longtime basketball observers could not help but notice a distinct shadow falling across Duke's on-campus national championship…
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Deconstructing the Defenestrations of Prague
"DEFENESTRATION: Sales dive leads to turnover at the top," the online headline said, which prompted me to quiz my lovely and unsuspecting wife (who was also online at a different…
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It’s little ol’ me versus the killer deer
I AM AT WAR WITH THE DEER. Over the years I have killed two of them – but, understand, they were trying to kill me first. Back when it was…
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“Are you stupid?” A gaffe of Olympic proportions
VANCOUVER, via satellite — It would have gone down as one of the great gaffes in sports history, if it had been in a sport that anyone cared about. It…
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