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As Tar Heel fans try desperately NOT to relate the rash of basketball injuries with Lord Obama’s imminent coronation (coincidence ?) …. An announcement in Austin TX on Tuesday will have a tsunami-like impact among The Old Well crowd. Every November the fit hits the Kenan shan as the leaves hit the ground just south o’ quaint Franklin Street. This year is no different. This one involves Coach February, Will The Phenom, The Pale Rider, Bum’s Boy, Jerry J., Prince Tassel Loafer, and The Brothers Goodmon,

Like an obscure island in the South Pacific, Tom O’Brien led his valiant lupine troops into battle on a chilly November Saturday. When the clock read 00:00 a red block “S” flag was flying high “amid the pines”. The losing side this day did not put up as fierce a fight as the Japs did in 1945. Two football coaches with different styles took over floundering programs in ’06. On the 45th anniversary of “Camelot Comes To Dallas” the scoreboard reads The Marine – 2 …. The Mercenary – 0. .

For almost a decade and 1,300 commentaries you expect a consistency to my point-of-view on issues of the day. Be those issues of actual relevance …. or about sports! So it may bumfuzzle you that I strongly approve of overt passion on the matter of sports rivalries. Last weekend culminated 2008’s season-ending rivalries matches across America’s gridirons. It’s a good thing with the inevitable caveat. …. In my research I toured the main street of Lawrence KS in the midst of an apparent serial killer convention.

Yo Lil’ Johnny Swofford …. “stick a fork in it” … “pull the plug” …. WHATEVER. Just admit the ACCCG is a bust – the Edsel of college football. It was a poorly thought out knee-jerk attempt to imitate the SEC. The dynamics of the two conferences could not be more contrary yet you stubbornly keep cramming a square peg into an empty stadium. I’ll give you one, the only, way it might be less embarrassing.

And BobLee looks at the bowl situation and a few other college FB goings-on. Note to UNC band guy Jeff Fuchs …. No Duelin’ Banjos at halftime in Charlotte. …. and BIG NEWS about Tyler!

You’re all Aware kinda folks ….right? Lets travel back in time just three weeks …. here’s your “I’m an Aware kinda guy/gal” Test ….. (1) Who the bleep is “Blago” ?….. (2) Have either you OR a Christmas Tree ever been in the UNC Library ? …. (3) If your mamma named you Plaxico would you carry a pistol in your pants?

The BobLee Public Opinion & Muffler Repair Center’s weekly Hell In A Handbasket poll shows that 83% of Obamaites are pretty sure that Blago and Plaxico were two of The Three Wise Men.

Seasonal absolutes are signposts along Life’s highway that remind us that we were in the very same place a year ago. The info-babe doing the remote from the crowded airport on Wednesday before Thanksgiving …. “blaming the refs” whining in early September …. the politician promising “change” …. And today’s topic – College Football’s “Skins Game” starring the phenom de 2008 Turner Gill. …. Come along with BobLee to a place where even angels fear to tread …..

This was a big week for The Hansbrough Family in Chapel Hill. Son Tyler broke Phil Ford’s UNC scoring record to no one surprise …. and mom Tami got a job at the UNC Dental School to a LOT of folks’ surprise. Both events were predictably over-blown by the media and ABCers respectively. BobLee, to no one’s surprise, gives’em both his unique perspective. …..

(A BobLee Golden Oldie From A Few Years Ago) …. Christmas is an aromatic season … cedar trees, cookies baking in the oven, crackling fireplaces, and that special smell of a brand new baseball glove! I was doing some almost last minute shopping and wandered into a local Dick’s Sporting Goods. ….Christmas and sporting goods forever linked in a child’s memory.

BobLee reports on his Meineke Memories and “the Bowl situation” in general. Saturday in Charlotte was a day well spent. The game was a doozie. The weather was quite acceptable for Dec 27 and I reconfirmed a few undeniable truths. ….. and a few words on Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

Never mind about Joe DiMaggio …. “Where has BobLee gone?” Not to fear Buddies and Babes, Yours Truly is just fine (as fine can be in these troubling times). My brief hiatus was not the result of a coup by angry board monkeys or political opponents. And I certainly have not been dismissed by Boston College AD Gene DeFilippo …. or his basketball team (ouch!).

Wow ….. There are more “skis” in that headline than in Jean Claude Killey’s attic. If I can work Blagojevich in some how all we’ll need is Bobby Vinton and twenty pounds of Kielbasa. Holy Krakow Batman.

…. For us fans of sports teams with the surname Carolina this week-end was a “weak-end”. Athletes always say they grew up imagining heroic performances in big games. Growing up in Breaux Bridge Louisiana a young Jake Delhomme never imagined this past Saturday. ….. meanwhile Ol’ Roy’s least favorite song for 2009 is “Never On Sunday”.

If I asked you to name the most significant cultural tsunami bearing down on America you might opt for the obvious ….. The extended 3-point line in NCAA BB …. the first POTUS with a Kenyan biological father …. Gil Grissom leaving CSI-Las Vegas …. etc. If you said “the eminent demise of daily newspapers”, BINGO! Pick any prize off of the front row.

….. Rarely have back-to-back columns generated such reader response. I should write with my eyes closed while listening to Tom T Hall on my Ipod more often. Who knew? The response to both columns reached Obamic levels (oops, sorry about that polit-slip!). BobLee peels the “that guy” and “who’s Wilt” onions a few more layers.