Throwback Thursday column: Coaches vs. sports writers
Today’s Throwback Thursday column is from 2010 and recalls an incident from the 1980s involving a friend and colleague who was far too nice a guy to have to put up with crap like this. Coaches are like...
View ArticleColon’s bittersweet World Series debut and other local connections
Last night, actually this morning, as game one of the 2015 World Series stretched past midnight and into the territory where it would never make print in the Times-News or any other East Coast...
View ArticleHow ’bout those Panthers
As many know I began my career as a sports writer. I got out of it largely because the non-stop work on weekends was becoming a drag and I was losing touch with what I liked about sports to start with...
View ArticleIt’s not always easy facing us
Reporters, editors and especially TV pundits often like to point out that people — most often public figures or those seeking to become public figures — have no real idea how to best deal with the...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: The frozen GGO of 1987
In December I began sorting through old boxes and happened upon this column from April 4, 1987. In those days the Greater Greensboro Open was played the week before the Masters — this particular week....
View ArticleTwo men with incredible reach
Children often see things very clearly that adults simply can’t. Stands to reason. Stuff tends to get all churned up in the grown-up world, where years of preconceptions stack one upon another until...
View ArticleThe tragedy and miracle that was Bill Gentry
I breathed a heavy sigh on Thursday when I scanned the obituaries and saw a name I recognized. The photo that was with it, though, was of someone I had never really known. The picture was of a young...
View ArticleDon’t lie to me like I’m Montel Williams
The heading here is a reference to one of my favorite moments on the old TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.” In the scene, Detective John Munch, played by Richard Belzer, is interrogating a...
View ArticleA misbegotten law and its ongoing consequences
It would be difficult to find more stinging rebukes of North Carolina’s misbegotten “bathroom law” more commonly known as House Bill 2 than the ones crafted by newspapers across the state and nation...
View ArticleThe life and impact of Arnold Palmer
When the Wake Forest University football team made its historic Orange Bowl appearance as 2006 shifted into 2007, it was marked by a remarkable pairing. The honorary captains for that matchup between...
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