I can’t keep pace with the verbal ping pong between Rashad McCants and RoyzBoyz. WWI trench warfare with each side lobbing Big Bertha shells at one another. Let us consider a dare-we-speak-of-it final destination of all this.
So I’m sitting at Breadmen’s in Chapel Hill enjoying a very pleasant lunch. Suddenly it occurred to me – a sniper dispatched by InsideCarolina could become a hero in some beady eyes, if he knew the two who dats were That smart aleck BobLee….. and JAY SMITH !!!
How do I go about writing a column. Me. I come up with a provocative title, then type 800 words beneath it. Today’s WHOA Title came in the backwash of BullyBarber’s Mob attacks on the NC General Assembly.
I try to stay away from rumors even ones from multiple solid sources. But when the subject is Ye Olde Great Unpleasantness, that spaceship left Planet Sanity a loong time ago. CONFIRMED: OTL on ESPN w/ Rashad = 3:00 PM Friday
When June 2 falls on a Monday, ya know its time to bring back RIMSHOTS! Yes indeed…. that ever-popular cornucopia of bits & pieces from all corners of the topical globe…..
When a sports fan, through corporate circumstance, finds himself relocated to a community significantly removed from “where he grew up” how does he go about selecting a local team to pull for? I love this one as I have “lived it” on numerous occasions.
You’ve heard me brag about my two All-Time Favorite UNC Coeds – The Fabulous Comparato Twins – Nicole & Paige. Nicole just completed her year-long reign as DTH Editor. While an unabashed “Tar Heel” Nicole ain’t a Carolina Way Kool-Aid drinker AT ALL.
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I’m sure many of you follow the various off-field/court dramas of “sports” more than I do. I don’t watch ANY ESPN talking heads any more…. haven’t for months now. I read headlines on 3-4 national sports websites. I sort of know on a superficial level.
The only way this Donald Sterling MEGA-Brouhaha gets any wackier is if Sterling tells one of his toadies (you KNOW he has toadies and they all have names courtesy of Raymond Chandler) – “Get me that UNC Vice Chancellor of Spin. I don’t care what it costs. DO IT!”
Yesterday, today and tomorrow The Saga of “Mary Whistleblower” inexorably carves its niche into the Grand Mosaic known, at least here, as The Great Unpleasantness. Opinions of Ms Willingham’s worth as a human being depend totally upon where on the partisan spectrum one resides.
I’ve attended two reunions in the past month. One involved my high school’s basketball program. The other involved my college’s football program….. doing what everyone does at such affairs – (1) exaggerating dusty memories and (2) talking about those who were not there.
About six weeks or so ago, WCHL aired a lengthy interview with Dr Deborah Stroman – Chair of The UNC Black Faculty & Staff Caucus. I invited Dr Stroman via email to “just have lunch” (my treat) to further discuss. Alas. It never happened. sigh, sob, sniff.
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This Northwestern Union thingy might not be “the straw”….. even The Dreaded O’Bannon Case may not “do it” BUT the camel’s back of Big Time College Sports is hanging by the slimmest of threads. It IS going to break and soon. “Soon” being within three years….. or sooner.
I broke my own rule last night. I “got emotional” at the end of Wisconsin v Arizona despite having no dog in that fight whatsoever. This pathological over-saturation with “instant replay” reviews may be a worse plague on sports than “board monkeys”. OK, nothing is THAT bad.
I told you earlier this week how tired I am of shoveling the sludge from The Great Unpleasantness, but I do what I gotta do. There are little kids in kindergarten who have never known a world when The Old Well was not ringed with yellow Crime Scene tape.