Atlantis might be rediscovered, but major non-conference home hoops is going extinct It’s the 28th of November, nearly three weeks since the tipoff of the 2012-13 NCAA basketball season, and North Carolina has played more game in Hawaii than Chapel Hill, N.C. State more in Puerto Rico than PNC Arena, and tonight’s game at Cameron […]
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Mobsters chase the American dream in Killing Them Softly
Killing Them Softly opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: “America’s not a country, it’s just a business.” While uttered in the closing moments of writer-director Andrew Dominik’s gangster pastiche Killing Them Softly, this subtle-as-a-sledgehammer motif smacks you in the head beginning with the film’s disorienting open shot, narrated by a disembodied 2008 presidential campaign […]
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NASL tabs sport exec and former NFL Europe chief Bill Peterson as new commissioner
NASL.comNew NASL Commissioner Bill Peterson During an afternoon media teleconference, the North American Soccer League (NASL) introduced Bill Peterson as the league’s second commissioner, replacing the outgoing David Downs, who announced his resignation in early October. Peterson, who was born in Smithfield, N.C. and currently resides in Florida, is a career sports executive who comes […]
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Will the Wolfpack avoid generational divide?
File photo by Al Drago After winning the 1993 NCAA national championship, the North Carolina Tar Heels entered the 1993-94 campaign with one of their most talented squads in school history. Gone was senior leader George Lynch, but joining four returning starters from the national championship team were highly touted freshmen Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace […]
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Daniel Day-Lewis ends slavery in Lincoln
Lincoln opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: Steven Spielberg used to make movies you love. He now makes movies you admire. There’s a difference. Even today, any video montage of Spielberg’s filmography includes a Great White champing Roy Scheider’s chum, little Henry Thomas furiously pedaling his bike across the moon, Harrison […]
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Growing pains: N.C. State wins landslide victory over Miami (Ohio) 97-59
Freshman Tyler Lewis sneaks a peek at his layup during N.C. State’s 97-59 win over Miami (Ohio) Friday in Raleigh PNC ARENA/RALEIGH—The last time N.C. State opened their basketball season in the AP Top 25 was 2007. Yet, while Duke took their usual place on the ESPN2 TV network for their home opener, anyone wanting […]
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Skyfall, the latest Bond flick, brings pleasures both familiar and fresh
Photo by François Duhamel SKYFALL*** starsOpens today During the latter half of Skyfall, Judi Dench’s M, testifying before a bureaucratic inquest, declares that today’s true threats to safety and security are “individuals, not nations.” Punctuated by a passage from Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” the expertly edited scene plays like a commentary on our post-Bin Laden world. However, […]
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Heavy-handed metaphors in Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
Flight opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: For quite some time, I’ve had an idea for a movie. The basic premise involves an everyman who wins the lottery, seemingly guaranteeing him lifelong security and happiness. However, this seminal event soon alienates him from suddenly envious, greedy friends and family. Moreover, his […]
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Carolina RailHawks go to Florida to die as Tampa Bay Rowdies advance to NASL championship
Chris BairdAmir Lowery of the Carolina RailHawks faces off with Rowdies midfielder Shane Hill on Sept. 22 in Cary, N.C. AL LANG STADIUM/ST. PETERSBURG—Another game, another draw between the Carolina RailHawks and the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Unfortunately for the lads from Cary, last Saturday’s 2-1 home loss gave the Rowdies the advantage they needed to […]
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What the Dickens: Tampa Bay Rowdies get a leg up on Carolina RailHawks 2-1 in NASL semifinals
Chris BairdBrian Shriver buries a PK, but the Carolina RailHawks come up short to the Tampa Bay Rowdies 2-1 Saturday in Cary WAKEMED SOCCER PARK/CARY—“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it […]