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YOU Are In “THE HOT SEAT” …..

… OK, you with all the answers.  Here’s your at-bat in the BobLee Fantasy version of Resolving The Great Unpleasantness.  Suppose your opinion actually had consequences.  Suppose YOU were in …..     IF…

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Leroy Jethro Gibbs Is No Butch

Alas, buddies and babes, we be hopelessly trapped in UNC Football Mess mode for the foreseeable now.  To deny the C-Blue gorilla in the middle of the room is to say “what…

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Butch Is No “Edward J. Smith”

Dear Coach Davis: I have been following your predicament with interest.  I too was once a very important man paid a lot of money to be in charge of a…

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My Give-A-D*mn Hit “E”

Like with a tube of Pringles – you start off gobbling’em as fast as you can pull’em out of the tube 4 or 5 at a time.  Then you stop, put…

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On Handing Off The Keys

This column has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with “that you-know-what” over at “you-know-where”.  Praise God from whom all blessings flow !!! It was 7-8 years ago, maybe longer.  I received an e-mail from a…

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….Then it got really silly!

Yes, I’m fine. Thanks for asking.  I returned safely from PlanetCarolina with no new scars or wounds.  Just the ones I earned in previous skirmishes.  SEPT 20. I arrived on-campus at…

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Ines Sainz, Karl Rove & The Butcher are ….

So Ines Sainz, Karl Rove and Butch Davis are in a lifeboat. There are only two parachutes …. and the bartender says: How many zombies marching on the farmhouse have downloaded the Ines Sainz image.

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Ketchup Kolumn

Sunday afternoon around 3 PM I had “one too many pistachios”.  Despite there being much more I could discourse about The Lingering Unpleasantness I realized how bored I am with…

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NOT “The Last Chili Dog”

I have great columns coming about “The Last Chili Dog” and “Somebody’s Else’s The Kid” but circumstances demand I keep pumping out this UNC Football Mess Stuff.  You Buddies & Babes…

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Look Homeward Heels

BREAKING NEWS :  John Blake has resigned effective immediately …. TarHeelNation looking for a Bastille to Storm.  Board Monkeys arranging deck chairs on The Titanic. ….. The following column was posted…

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Jimmy V – Butch …. and Mary

Comparing The Jim Valvano “Situation” at NC State to the current Butch Davis “Situation” at UNC is ludicrous.  The UNC/Davis situation is nowhere near a conclusion.    A comparison of circumstances, not conclusions.  This exercise will…

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Just One Tweet / Nail / Paira Tennis Shoes

Its one of those sayings that those of us who use’em assume everyone understands.  Such phrases usually require some book learnin’ so an increasing number of publicly educated folks are…

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8,000,000,000 Chinese CARE !

It’s long been the litmus test for measuring the significance of any event involving The University of North Carolina.  Dean said it, or maybe Bill Currie, or Lou Holtz, or…

John Bunting
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“Hi Coach Dooley, this is John …..”

By his opening remarks it was obvious that John Bunting was in a very different situation from any he had experienced. Coherently conveying enthusiasm and a sense of competence as the Head Football Coach of a major university is another all together.