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Wake up….wake up and breathe

I was all set this week to share my college basketball predictions with you, but then along came ...

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Life is full of unexpected changes

If you follow these pages you know I’ve been absent for awhile. The reason I’d been away was ...

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Face it: One day Junior will be gone

Call him Opie on racing fuel. I guess it’s because he’s been like some kid from a TV ...

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Three down and four to go

Call them the ‘Dirty Dozen’. They’re the 12 NASCAR drivers who’ve locked up a spot in the 2016 ...

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Sometimes a borrower be

There’s an old saying, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be”. It comes from Shakespeare and it means ...

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No more ‘three yards and a cloud of dust’

They called Bill Dooley, “the ol’ Trenchfighter”. He borrowed a coaching staple from someone who had to have ...

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It’s no ‘Dream Team’, but they are on a boat

I’m not coming to bury Mike Krzyzewski. Instead (cover your ears Carolina fans!), I’m actually hear to praise ...

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What’s the harm in trying?

I learned as a kid about ‘playing the dozens’. Some ‘new-school’ people call it ‘snaps’; where you try ...

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One hundred columns and counting

100 columns. That means it’s time to pause and give thanks. Thanks to the Almighty for allowing me ...

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Seven Still….My kind of hero

After the tragedies of last week, just about everybody has a police story. Well, here’s mine, and it’s ...

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The ghost of (football) season past

Seeing the local baseball teams play their final games this week means just one thing: an early start ...

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Welcome back, Smoke – now get fired up!

If there’s something familiar about Tony Stewart returning from serious injury to score that surprising and hair-raising win ...

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Still hollering, down to her last breath

North Carolina lost one of its true natural treasures earlier this week with the passing of Durham civil ...

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To my Pops at Father’s Day: My Hero

Recently, I wrote about a major league baseball player who walked away from his sport – forfeiting millions ...

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The butterfly and the bee

Muhammad Ali died Friday, May 3. He was 74. I remember cheering as I listened, not to bell-to-bell ...

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