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On life, love, and losing a friend

“No matter how prepared you think you are for death of a friend, it still comes as a ...

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Let’s hoop it up!

That ‘thump, thump, thump’ fans are hearing in towns like Chapel Hill, Greenville, and Tallahassee are the sound ...

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Brighter days ahead in Pirate-Land?

College football has reached mid-season and while some schools have better than expected passing grades (Clemson, NC State, ...

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Sometimes Superman isn’t so super

He can be theatrical. Sometimes it’s his fashion dress – costumes, really – other times its things like ...

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Breaking the ‘Cardinal Rule’

Maybe the cat had reached its nine lives. Rick Pitino escaped from pro basketball coaching (twice); after his ...

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Good-Time Charlie, the best right where he was

Maybe it escaped your attention this week, but Charlie Adams, former longtime director of the North Carolina High ...

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Freedom of speech…but, is it really?

Interesting this week: two perspectives on – dare I say it! – racism. Tuesday, a Missouri man had ...

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Welcome back, Kyle Busch…and I still don’t like you!

I’m going to miss a little more than not seeing Dale Earnhardt Jr in a fulltime NASCAR Cup ...

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Crystal Ball for ACC Football – Atlantic Division

Last season the Showtime Network profiled the Florida State football program with a show every week for 16 ...

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Alternative facts vs. the facts of life

I didn’t catch Tuesday’s news conference with President Trump delivered live; I had to wait until I got ...

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Youth is being served in NASCAR

Face it, Dale Earnhardt Jr. transcends NASCAR. Not only is he the sport’s 14-time most popular driver; but ...

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Funnyman turns serious, and still draws a chuckle

I’m in the – pick one – majority/minority of folks who think comedian Dave Chappelle is a comic ...

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Ruff, and ready, down by the Red River

He’s a Carolina boy who I thought had come full circle when he returned to the Tar Heel ...

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You gotta know when to shut up

Last Friday’s incident with comedian Bill Maher isn’t the first time he’s committed ‘hoof-in-mouth’. You may recall he ...

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Tiger is running low on life’s ‘mulligans’

Golf’s a funny game. Sometimes dignity and etiquette in the game get skewed. I remember playing in a ...

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