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Best of the rest, and then some

Last week I gave my first preview of the 2019-20 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball season, making my top-seven ...

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Motown….nothing but fun and music

If you follow this column, you know that I saluted Motown Records founder Berry Gordy a few weeks ...

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Meet me somewhere in the middle

The Atlantic Coast Conference’s Operation Basketball took place in Charlotte this past week. In what seems to me ...

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Invitation across the nation for dancing in the street

You know that feeling. You’re in the car, maybe tooling around the house or the garage, even getting ...

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I’ll watch him play, and you will too

Robert Kraft has struck again. And this time, as best I can tell, he’s done it while keeping ...

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Sturdy from its mast to its keel

Last week, I couldn’t get that tune out of my head. “Sail with the Pilot at the wheel…on ...

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No holding (back) these Tigers

From ‘Dancin’ Dabo’ to ‘Return of the Mack’, Trevor Lawrence’s Heisman acceptance speech to maybe Miami is ready ...

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Of reunions and remembering

It’s hard to lie about your age once you’ve told someone you’ve just been to your 50th high ...

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Lock and re-load at UNC

Ah, the July baseball All-Star Break: that time of year when it’s always a little challenging to write ...

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When ‘pretty good’ isn’t good enough

I held my breath through NBA free agency this past Sunday. So much so I could’ve turned blue. ...

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Happy Birthday, Isla; great job of raising your Dad

Isla Earnhardt turned one-year-old the day before May Day, so April 30 was more than a celebration. For ...

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Play on, my friend, with a whistle or a mic

There is something about the voice – or, ‘pipes’ as they say in the radio business – of ...

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Contemporary society dictates change

I never met any of the athletes on the 2018-19 roster for UNC women’s basketball. Nope, not a ...

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Tiger’s return was worth the wait

Tiger Woods has been a part of golf since 1997. That’s 22 years back when he was just ...

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Hoops hysteria becomes a whimper

The ‘thump, thump, thump’ sound of dribbling on hardwood is silenced now. I know, we still have the ...

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