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Irony is an overused word and an oft-misunderstood concept. Still, what better term describes the juxtaposition found in local daily newspapers last week?
7 Mar 2007
James Moore Tatum, one of the premier college football coaches of his time, took a pay cut to return to his alma mater, the University of North Carolina. That, of course, made the signing even more of a coup.
18 Oct 2006
There is no truth to allegations
I cheated to win the competition for fastest column writer.
23 Aug 2006
So this is what it's like for a non-fan during March, when talk of college basketball dominates local sports discourse...
28 Jun 2006
Sidney Lowe, newly named head men's basketball coach at North Carolina State University, finished his formal press conference and circulated amiably among a milling multitude in the program's expensive new practice gym.
17 May 2006
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The timing of the marches, protests and vigils was coincidental, yet cruelly ironic, as if the ACC's unprecedented domination of the women's basketball Final Four required a counterbalancing dose of ground truth.
12 Apr 2006
Coaches have much in common with ancient Egyptians, who considered the heart the center of consciousness and took pains to preserve it for the afterlife. For coaches, afterlife is called retirement, and is often as involuntary as death.
8 Mar 2006
The Knoxville Tours bus struggled and bumped through the curves of the too-tight rotary where N.C. 751 meets Old Erwin Road at the edge of Duke Forest, its lumbering passage a lovely metaphor for what was to come. Some other January night, the light rain would have fallen as snow, thinning the crowd at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
1 Feb 2006
Mail once arrived at the University of Kansas men's basketball office addressed simply to "Roy, Lawrence, Kansas." The postmaster knew exactly where to send the letter.
26 Oct 2005
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