I was “there” when Bill Guthridge arrived at UNC in 1966. He did something that A LOT of other basketball coaches have done over the past 50 years – he replaced Larry Brown. Unlike Larry, Bill Guthridge unpacked and settled in for 35 years.
UNC’s TGU will absolutely for sure result in “a Clobber” or maybe just “a Wrist Slap”. Reliable inside sources are convinced if not in agreement. And THE Mike Adams says ESPN is….
One of sports’ classic quotes from the 1919 “Black Sox” Scandal. A boy asks his hero, Chicago star “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, for reassurance that he did not cheat. FWIW, there is compelling evidence that, indeed, “Shoeless Joe” did NOT cheat…. will “Tom Terrific” Brady be so vindicated?
Tuesday last I munched on some potent hushpuppies while confabbing the complexities of UNC’s Glorious Mess with esteemed essayist John Shelton Reed, and The Bard of The Brickyard – The Real Bob Kennel (TRBK). ….
Our pal John Shelton Reed “hits a homer” with his latest analysis of The Great Unpleasantness – Scandal Reveals Two Cultures at UNC. Even behind the ivy-covered walls of academe, perspectives can be as varied as Kipling’s blind men analyzing that elephant. BE WARNED:
“Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet….” aired in 1972. In 2015, this idealized view of America is beyond naively ridiculous. Baltimore Burns and the Top Sports Role Models this week are Jameis and Floyd ??? While a gangly kid from Kinston finally answers BOT Barbara’s infamous question.
The AnybodyButCarolina (ABC) lynch mob has laser-focused its wrath on An Argyle Stripe. The timing is apparently a conspiracy involving Chip Kelly siging “a controversial Christian journeyman”. What calamitous announcement might divert their attention, angst and anger? Enter – Alexander Julian, Phil Knight and THE ARGYLE STRIPE – OMG!!!!
If you only had a nickel for every waiter and parking attendant in Hollywood who would eagerly trade a kidney to “be Rosco P. Coltrane” !! The one and only Sheriff Rosco Purvis Coltrane a/k/a James Best died, at 88, several weeks ago in Hickory NC. And a rough week for sideline eye-candy.
It’s slogan has become a punchline. The event itself has become Sports’ #1 annual anachronism. Never has it been more anachronistic than it was this past weekend. It is The Masters.
Coach K “looked for someone to hug”…. as confetti descended from the roof of The Lucas Barn in Eeevil Indiana. TruBlues clung desperately to their Helms Thing. The Argument for Greatest Coach raged along 15-501.
On March 19, 1966 in Cole Field House, Willie Cager, “Big Daddy” Lattin, and the Texas Western Miners’ made college basketball history. 49 years later, in much beleaguered Indiana, in yet another “Game for the Ages”;….
UNC-CH’s much-maligned munchkin Chancellor Carol Folt (From Dartmouth) finds her self in a “pickle over a portrait”. Carol was not universally admired within Dartmouth Nation. …. I can understand why.
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I never heard of Chris Borland until last week when he retired from the NFL at the age of 24. His very “early out” from a dream career in The NFL sent the public and pundits into tizzies. …… “Tizzies” always get my attention.
“24” delicious hours I woulda paid cash money to be me. A 3-ring circus with each ring worth the price of admission. UNC’s Bonnie & Clyde – That Damn Dan Kane – a political luminary – and a mystery “cog”. YOWSA.
As you read those names, what comes to mind? I spelled all three correctly? No extra“o” in Hansbrough. THE THREE MOST HATED ACC Bball Players of the past 25 years? WARNING: Follow BobLee if you dare.