Dr Mike (Munger) and I once debated with former UNC System honcho Erkine Bowles on the merits of bottle tans vs tanning beds for college cheerleaders. Travel that road and no subject is out-of-reach.
A typical question you ask old friends you haven’t seen in a while. Right? Blondie and I were contemplating a beautiful Sunday when my iPhone 4G broke into Boxcar Willie’s…
SCOTTY WINS !!! Maybe cornier than Kansas in August ….. into a world going quite mad rides Scotty McCreery From Garner. I watch American Idol with the frequency that I change batteries in our smoke…
Everyone is familiar with Southern Living magazine. A well-established chronicler of 500 recipes for pecan pie and why you really should See Rock City. There’s another even more enjoyable mag out there – Garden&Gun (G&G).
You know the old line – I felt sorry that I had no shoes; until I meet a man who had no feet. I’ve made a few enemies since last August…
Ten years ago I was backstage with Wayne Newton after a benefit show in Dallas. NASCAR mogul Bruton Smith asked Wayne “I was wondering if you were going to sing Danke Schoen” – Wayne’s…
Firemen are not heroes for playing cards in the firehouse. Firemen are heroes for running into burning buildings. Umpires are not paid to call belt-high fastballs down the middle of the…
A year ago a boastful tweet forever scarred UNC Football. In ensuing months the best off-field news has been “No Tressel-esque incriminating email has surfaced YET.” Guess what? I do have…
Compared to Debbie Grabs Mark, the Butch hiring fiasco had the thoroughness of a Supreme Court nomination. McDonald’s vets a new fries frier more thoroughly than either of these multi-million $$ hires. If Debbie…
…..with a stand-up double”. That’s how Ol’ Diz might describe Frau Yow’s much maligned and befuddling coach search culminating in Mark Gottfried. Dizzy Dean took liberties with the English language for…
I don’t know where my mind was on March 13. I must have been deep in thought to have overlooked – The 5th Anniversary of Duke Lacrosse. As Official Never Forgetter For…
Three befuddling “How Comes”. These befuddlements strike at human nature in general. Sports, and politics, require poking around in the dank nooks and crannies of the human psyche. (1) Prince Tassel…
Current generations flaunt. While past generations fret. I am pretty blasé about effusive body art and cock-eyed ballcaps. Each generation creates its own identity thru its clothing, its music, and…
Ann-Margret is officially credited with unleashing certain hormones in this baby boomer boy; but Elizabeth Taylor may have been the car a generation of adolescent dogs imagined chasing. I’m still unclear what…
This is not about Joe Theisman. This is about an All-American kid who has grabbed TWO of the most coveted brass rings on any high school merry-go-round – Quarterback of…