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Cam Newton: Rumble, young man, rumble!

A few weeks ago after the NCAA football national championship game I wrote about Dabo Swinney’s dance antics ...

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Welcome home, Texas Terry

Even the snow couldn’t keep these guys out. Despite the snowy, icy weather that blanketed much of the ...

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Do we need a ‘Rooney Rule’ in Hollywood?

I’ve been pondering this idea of boycotting the Oscars; you know, the Academy Awards handed out by the ...

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Keep right on dancing, Dabo

It began as a shock, really. Okay, maybe just a surprise. It happened on a Sunday in the ...

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Packing up my ACC suitcase

I’m proud there’s an ACC team playing for all the marbles for the second time in three years ...

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Remembering the ‘Clown Prince’

It’s somewhere in one of a half-dozen trunks I haven’t unpacked since moving back to Bertie County. It’s ...

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The ‘Six Days’ of Christmas

The ‘day of days’ as some refer to it is only six days away now. That’s a half-dozen, ...

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Thoughts on Ruff and other ramblings

This column has been absent for a few weeks while I had a little “body repair” going on. ...

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Don’t worry….rather, be thankful

For the first time in a decade I won’t be spending Thanksgiving Day with my immediate family and ...

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Of Missouri, money, power & persuasion

Duke lost an ACC football game to Miami a couple of weeks ago on a wild play whose ...

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Money well spent in Tarheel State

You don’t need another reminder that we dodged a huge bullet when Hurricane Joaquin veered northeast and avoided ...

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When Irish cash registers are ringing

When the Atlantic Coast Conference admitted Notre Dame as a league member back in 2013 in every sport ...

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Back in love again: with self

Nothing like a doctor’s exam, I mean a real exam, to make you take stock of your own ...

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Stay on your toes: be a sponsor and a mentor

Last week there was a network TV news profile of ballet dancer Misty Copeland that I found striking ...

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Darlington: “Not too tough to change”

I used to ‘labor’ on Labor Day weekend, but I didn’t mind.  That’s because when I got a ...

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