You turn your back for a minute and all sorts of interesting things happen. Frank Beamer finally got around to announcing his staff hires, the Tech basketball team put together a solid effort and Princess Turandot got over that fear of commitment. It makes for a busy Monday morning. First of all, for the thousands [...]

It was a sports weekend with a definite North Carolina flair. The two great passions of that state, college basketball and NASCAR, combined to dominate the air waves, cables and satellites. From Herb to Tyler to Jimmie to JJ, representatives of Old North State sport could be found all over the spectrum. There was a [...]

There comes a time in the career of every Internet prattler when he is forced to wing his way through a column. This is one of those times. No single subject the last few days seems to have made itself worthy of 1500 words or so. The solution, as always, is to dive into that [...]

Another game, another nail-biter. Virginia Tech engaged in another of its stock in trade during this 2006 basketball season, the close game. Unhappily, the ball bounced the other way this time, allowing the Hoos to pick up a second close win over Tech in as many tries. This communication takes a look at that, along [...]

It was certainly an interesting sequence of weeknight games for ACC basketball. Virginia Tech’s hard-luck Hokies scratched out another win, league basketball aristocracy Duke and Carolina staged another of their donnybrooks and there were a couple of other games that went right down to the wire. It was just another typical week in this most [...]

I did catch the Second Half. Well, at least I had the television on. The hype surrounding Super Bowl XL was lost on me. I paid no more attention to the build-up to this NFL championship game than I had the previous XXXIX. I read not the first word of the stories turned in by [...]

I have a long tradition of lying to inquiring minds. On Election Day in 2004, I exited my polling station to find myself face-to-face with an attractive young lady claiming to do exit polling for CNN. I agreed to her request that I fill out her questionnaire, and then proceeded to answer every question exactly [...]