Columns

Where you go when the cheering stops

The Carolina BlackSox travel ball baseball team and the HammerDown football teams don’t exist anywhere in the East, ...

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Drop the green and let’s go racing!!

Don’t you just love the smell of racing fuel in February? I do. Because if it’s February and ...

Opinion

Don’t ever think you can’t

We’re eight days away from Super Bowl LIII (that’s ‘53’ for those of you who don’t speak Roman!) ...

Opinion

When pushing back feels like pushed out

Two. That’s how many of the University of North Carolina system’s top administrators have resigned in the face ...

Opinion

Moving ahead so life won’t pass me by

“It is good to have wealth. It is great to leave with a soul in comfort.” Ernest Agyemang ...

Gene Motley

From one Mean Gene to another…RIP

He didn’t wear those tight wrestling shorts, showing off six-pack abs, ripped ‘guns’, or even folds of flabby ...

Opinion

I resolve, even if I can’t remember

Two days to go. That’s all you have left in 2018 because come Tuesday, another New Year will ...

Opinion

What list did I make….naughty or nice?

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.                 – Noam Chomsky   If you read this column last week (and ...

Opinion

‘Tis the season for mixed emotions

It’s only a week-plus before Christmas (depending on when you’re reading this). And just as it’s never too ...

Opinion

Another game of Dodge-ball

They fumbled again. You know the they, the National Football League. You also know the who-they, Commissioner Roger ...

Opinion

Return of the Mack – but not the rap song

“All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come ...

Opinion

Just call me a ‘Tar-Packer’ for this game

I know where I’ll be around noon today (Saturday); sprawled out on the couch with a turkey sandwich, ...

Gene Motley

Is the title’s Duke’s to lose? Not so fast, my friend

The college basketball season opened last week, and interestingly, it came on Election Night. In case you missed ...

Opinion

Time to hoop it up, again

ACC Basketball 2017-18 was – in the words of Charles Dickens, ‘the best of times and the worst ...

Columns

Take a hand…..be a friend

Another week, another assault weapon, and another pile of bodies. It doesn’t matter anymore if it’s a church, ...

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