File photo by George A. Hoffman Jr.Referees who were not involved in N.C. State’s loss to Duke Thursday night. It’s been about 21 hours since the valiant dreams of the N.C. State Wolfpack were snuffed out pitilessly by referees under the spell of the legendary charm of Michael William Krzyzewski. Honestly, we’re still sifting through […]
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Hoop Cheese: The Duke-UNC fallout, and why did NC State get left out of the realignment fun?
Photo by Al DragoDid someone in Durham get news about the Facebook IPO? This week’s Hoop Cheese edition has so many words in it, not even Austin Rivers could say them while scoring 29 points in a hostile gym. You may have heard there was a Duke-UNC basketball game in Chapel Hill. That one came […]
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Hoop Cheese: The Twitter of our discontent, and getting ready for Duke-UNC bonfires
File photo by D.L. AndersonCelebrating victory over Butler. April 5, 2010. Groundhog Day came and went with the usual scorn for the holiday and our annual renewed appreciation of the minor masterpiece Bill Murray and company slipped into theaters 19 years ago. The pagans among us recall that Groundhog Day is a manifestation of the […]
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Hoop Cheese: Wolfpacking heat for Heels, plus what’s up with lagging Duke student attendance?
wikipedia commonsHungry wolf, there may be food in Chapel Hill. What have we learned in ACC basketball this week? Perhaps that neither Duke nor UNC is as good as we’d like to think they are. No—that’s something we’ll never learn. But N.C. State is sniffing upset through their little wolfy nostrils. Game is on in […]
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Sadness and stultification in Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Have you ever wanted to see a movie that could have been inspired by the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”? No? Well, Paul McCartney’s ditty about the world’s barely-there wallflowers may come to mind early and often in Albert Nobbs, in which Glenn Close plays […]
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Hoop Cheese: The Blacksburg redemption? and other thoughts about UNC’s terrible week
File photo by Arianna HoffmannUNC benchwarmers prepare to enter a game during garbage time last season. What’s the matter with UNC? That’s the leading question of the week. Duke and N.C. State didn’t make much news this week, so we’re all Tar Heels today. To recap: The men’s and women’s basketball teams contrived to lose […]
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Hoop Cheese: Paying college athletes, Part 2,817; what we learned from the opening games of ACC play
Photo by Peggy BooneMaster of puppets? In this Friday the 13th installment of Triangle Offense basketball crosstalk, we look at the mixed results of the last week. As a special bonus for the occasion of this weekend’s NCAA convention, to which Triangle Offense was invited to apply for credentials but declined because Indianapolis is too […]
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Hoop Cheese: What we learned watching the December non-conference games
File photo by Arianna HoffmannDexter Strickland, mid-contemplation, during a game last season ACC conference play begins this weekend, for men and women. And none too soon, after a December marked by a succession of blowouts that were effectively over two minutes after tip-off. Or, as Eric Martin suggested in this report, the games were decided […]
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On Duke’s 40-point blowout of Western Michigan, or why we should consider a (temporary) elimination of the shot clock
Photo by Al DragoMatt Stainbrook, who scored 18 to lead the visitors, defends Miles Plumlee. CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—What is there to say about a game that shouldn’t have happened? Why do the college basketball powers schedule such easy opponents in December and why are they on television? Why do we show up? These were […]
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UNC men win national soccer title; winning goal here
We were out of town and nowhere near a television or Internet connection when the UNC Tar Heels met the 49ers of UNC-Charlotte in Hoover, Ala. for the NCAA championship. While I missed the game, I found myself in an unexpected conversation about it in Sylva, N.C., when I walked into City Lights Bookstore, the […]