Interesting to watch Roy Williams let his team run their final play against FSU yesterday without a timeout to set it up. He seemed to have decided to let things go according to their own plan in the ACC Tournament; a tad more micromanagement here and there might have tipped yesterday’s game in UNC’s favor. […]
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No Wonder It’s Going to Be 70 Degrees
Looking for a nice place to have lunch today? From the Durham Bulls’ media office: Friday is the annual ‘Opening Day” for individual ticket sales. Any fan who purchases a ticket to a 2009 regular season game at the box office this Friday can come in and have free lunch of hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, […]
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UnPacking
RBC CENTER/ RALEIGHI got a free ticket to tonight’s N.C. State 74-69 win over Boston College. A few notes about the experience, led by this one: Why isn’t State better than their record, and why is BC as good as theirs? Watching tonight’s game, it was as if the two teams had swapped won-lost marks. […]
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Recession to Cause Price Drop?
Even with UNC’s unsightly stumble at Maryland on Saturday (the Heels squandered an easy win via one of the worst endgames I’ve seen a supposedly elite team play), the ACC regular season title is still theirs to win. They can even lose another game as long as it isn’t at home on Senior Day against […]
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Roy F***in’ Williams
I happened to be listening on the radio to the postgame of UNC’s win over N.C. State last night, and when UNC head coach Roy Williams was asked why why his team wasn’t doing a good job executing a full-court trap defense (and hence rarely using it), Williams responded that “If I knew the answer […]
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N.C. State professor Marvin Hunt tells us why Hamlet continues to fascinate through the ages
Looking for Hamlet By Marvin W. Hunt Palgrave MacMillan, 230 pp. Near the remote part of the northern neck of Virginia from where I’m writing, a sign on the main highway indicates a turnoff for a place called Ophelia. The route is called, appropriately, Folly Road. I followed Folly Road but never found Ophelia. Eventually […]
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Notes from a blowout
A friend wasn’t using his ticket to last night’s UNC v. UNC-Asheville game, so I took it and went. I don’t want to repeat the excellent overall account from Harrington already on our blog, so a few notes from the Dean Dome: 1. It’s amazing how easy the Heels made beating a team by 68 […]
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Watching the Bulls in the last inning of the World Series
For Bulls fans, the stars seemed suddenly to align late in Game Five of the World Series. First, young Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price, who made a whistle-stop in Durham before his call-up to the majors in September, dispatched the heart of the Philadelphia Phillies’ order in the bottom of the eighth inning, blowing […]
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Price Non-Negotiable
Last night’s deciding Game Seven of the ALCS Championship Series had the crisp, taut feel of classic October baseball. Both teams’ starters pitched well, especially the Rays’ Matt Garza. (Garza was acquired in the trade that sent former Bulls’ malcontent Delmon Young to Minnesota.) In the eighth inning, Tampa manager Joe Maddon started playing the […]
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Greensboro author Justin Catanoso discovers his family’s remarkable legacy
My Cousin the Saint by Justin Catanoso William Morrow, 337 pp. If someone says a word aloud enough times in succession, the word stops making sense and you have to reconsider it. The same is true for phrases, and there’s one that echoes around Justin Catanoso’s memoir, My Cousin the Saint: “Miracle worker,” and its […]