Category: Sports
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A very third-personal column
GARY GADDY is going to miss Roland Burris. In case you missed it, Roland Burris is the Illinois politician who took Barack Obama's senate seat after being appointed by another…
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My wife and my life: An Internet investigation
THE INTERNET IS GREAT! You can find out all kinds of things with it — without even getting out of your pajamas. (Traditional journalists are often derisive of bloggers "blogging…
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Very Briefly: The News in Briefs
This week's local, state, national and international news pre-digested for your consumptive pleasure. Carrboro to star in network TV series. CARRBORO, N.C. — The mid-season replacement television show The Goode…
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A mediated political pop quiz
TEST YOUR POLITICAL IQ to learn what you may not have learned from the massive mass media. 1) In the first apparent action by the Obama administration which might lead…
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Now introducing . . . the Albatross!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Congress today ordered General Motors to begin producing "as quickly as feasible" a brand new model for its Cadillac line of passenger vehicles, the Albatross.…
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What a waste! And its transfer
I AM A RESIDENT EXPERT on waste disposal landfills. I used to live next to one. My apartment complex abutted the Chesapeake, Virginia, city landfill. My building sat closer to…
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Gaddy to be replaced as columnist
DURHAM, N.C. — Higher management of the Durham Herald-Sun announced today that, effective with today's column, Gary D. Gaddy has been replaced as the Chapel Hill Herald's Leading Regular Thursday…
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Suit filed against Chapel Hill nuttiness
CHAPEL HILL — The Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) has filed suit against the Town of Chapel Hill, demanding that they "cease and desist all acts and activities which promulgate…
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Oh that championship feeling!
A CHAMPIONSHIP, ESPECIALLY a national championship — when the adrenalin wears off, when the euphoria recedes — brings about moments of quiet reflection. Such as, this Tar Heel senior class…
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Commissioner for a day, at least
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU but I have been watching way too much basketball lately — which has the side effect for me of evoking my guy-like tendency to fix…
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