Comments on: Retraction: Hansbrough’s Shins Are Fine

By: WellHeeledGal

WellHeeledGal — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:59:00 +0000

This is great news about Tyler! I live in Wilmington and used to have to read the crap Andrew Jones would write for the sports section of the paper. It was always skewed against Carolina and in favor of the other NC schools, namely dook. I used to send him emails calling him out on it. As soon as I saw Andrew Jones had written this, I had my doubts. Also – if I were Roy and had Andrew Jones asking me stupid questions, I would probably cuss at him too

By: wb3

wb3 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:55:57 +0000

I suspect THF has a job and probably doesn’t have time to go to all the press conferences.

By: uncgirl50

uncgirl50 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:32:50 +0000

THF should try to get into one of the press confrences! That would be so amazing!

By: wb3

wb3 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:27:36 +0000

There was a really good interview with UNC’s media relations person, Steve Kirschner, in this month’s Tar Heel Monthly. He said that because newspapers are cutting back in their coverage of bball games, blog websites sometimes get credentials to attend the press conferences. Buster is one of those people obviously.

As for Buster’s question about pressing that led to Roy’s bad word, I think Roy thought it was actually a good question and gave him a wink.

By: rathskellar68

rathskellar68 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:59:14 +0000

Dearly, dearly would I love to see him break it in a cramdown in Gerald Henderson’s face in the ACCT championship game (which is where he’ll get it if he averages 21 ppg from here on in).

THF — I admire your high journalistic standards, which are in keeping with the way you run this site, but there is no need for an apology.

You gave the source of the “shins” story and provided an accurate quotation from it. Thus any reader was able to track down things on his own. It is typically the case that, for professional journalists, two independent corroborating sources are required before a purportedly factual item appears in the paper, but I have never seen that standard applied to blogging, which depends more than other outlets on speed.

And I can tell you this, too: What you put on this site is more accurate by a fare-thee-well than what appears every day in the New York Times. Not to mention more wholesome and more entertaining.

By: JBowling

JBowling — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:54:24 +0000

Yes indeed.

By: C. Michael

C. Michael — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:45:37 +0000

It’s looking like the second or third game in the ACCT is the safe bet. He’d need to average just under 33 to break it against Duke. I think it is better that Senior day be about all of the Seniors, anyway, and not have so much focus on a single member. Plus, it is the ACC scoring record, so breaking it at the conference tournament is a bit poetic.

By: JBowling

JBowling — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:40:28 +0000

That’s right. THF didn’t initially make the statement, just re-verberating what he had seen was said.

Tyler will certainly have to have some post ACC games in order to achieve that number one scoring list, unless he gets a lot of those and 1′s he used to see in his freshman year, even at that, it is stretching it. I still hold out hope he can do it.

By: C. Michael

C. Michael — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:52:23 +0000

“Turns out he was the one whose questioning led to Roy Williams verbal indiscretion.”

That can’t be a coincidence. You have to wonder if Roy was already steamed about this guys false report, and his continued badgering just tipped him over.

THF, you shouldn’t apologize. You named your source, which is all the readers can ask for.

By: uncgirl50

uncgirl50 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:46:08 +0000

Oh thank goodness. I am so glad. Thanks THF.