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Some news items for your consideration. Chancellor Holden Thorp has named an AD search committee to name a replacement for Dick Baddour. The committee consists of twelve people who may or may not receive a Little Orphan Annie decoder pin. Among the notables named are former Tar Heel basketball player and current radio analysts Eric [...] Continue reading Random Items Of Passing Interest Kind of a crazy day in the general sports world but first some UNC tidbits: ACC Now has a nice feature on how James McAdoo came to decide against enrolling at UNC this season. McAdoo was on a mission trip to Nicaragua which had him removed from the comforts of the world for 12 days. [...] Continue reading Odds and Ends: GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!!! Edition From elsewhere in the world of all things Tar Heel… [...] Continue reading Things to talk about besides our wretched basketball season Winning the Turnover Battle(hat tip Deadspin) delved into the Google Patent Search and found some fabulous sports inventions which will never see the light of day including a “no hang basketball net” which apparently will prevent thousands of playground basketball hoops from having their nets ripped down my wayward youth. Obviously the lack of nets [...] Continue reading Apparently There is a Hanging on the Net Epidemic I usually keep myself above frays involving hot button issues outside of sports. However, like everyone else in the nation I cannot avoid the Don Imus flap over his remarks concerning the Rutgers women’s basketball team and particularly one remark made by one of the players. “It kind of scars us. We grew up in [...] Continue reading Let Me Just Say This One Thing… Brian Barbour on September 6th, 2006 |  Comments are closed As a parent with children approaching the age where they might be able to participate in actual sporting events I have spent some time thinking about how I should conduct myself when I go watch them play. My hope is that I can be more controlled than I am when I watch UNC play(for which [...] Continue reading Youth Football Parents Gone Wild Brian Barbour on August 8th, 2006 | Comments are closed Well sort of. I actually started mulling this Floyd Landis controversy a little more and found a whole new litany of questions. 1. Why only one positive results out of hundreds he has had? Landis like every other world class cyclist is tested numerous times over the course of his career. Bobby Julich wrote that [...] Continue reading Change of Heart Brian Barbour on August 7th, 2006 | Comments are closed And this was the weekend that was: Floyd Landis on Plan C So Landis’ “B” sample was tested and the results were announced which showed the same thing the first one showed and that was he had too much testosterone in his body and that some of it was synthetic in nature. (pause post) Now, [...] Continue reading Roundup! Brian Barbour on July 24th, 2006 | Comments are closed I was sick all weekend which made me fairly miserable but also granted me total control of the bedroom television all day. I was able to enjoy the full weekend coverage of the British Open and the Tour de France which both turned out to be American triumphs. In my last post I covered the [...] Continue reading This Weekend While I Was Battling the Plague Brian Barbour on July 14th, 2006 | Comments are closed From Michelle Wie after shooting a six-over 77 in the first round of the PGA’s John Deere Classic: “It was very uncharacteristic,” she said. “Considering that I had the water hazard penalties, considering that I had to call unplayable, considering that I hit my driver like 50 yards right, I felt like I played really [...] Continue reading Quote of the Day Brian Barbour on July 11th, 2006 | Comments are closed Well, not really. We have more insight into what drove France’s Zinedine Zidane to head butt Italy’s Marco Materazzi in the chest drawing a red card during the World (Non)Cup Final Sunday in Germany. Well actually we have conflicting accounts, one which says Materazzi called Zidane “the son of a terrorist whore” and also told [...] Continue reading All Star Caliber Thoughts Brian Barbour on July 10th, 2006 | Comments are closed ….I think I will join in. Italy beat France on penalty kicks or some such nonsense as that to win the World Cup which is not actually a cup but a golden ball on top of some golden stand. I mean the Stanley Cup is an actual cup but now we find out the World [...] Continue reading Since Bashing the French is Cool… |
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