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Update: ACC announces the remainder of the men’s basketball tournament will be closed to spectators. You’ll have to excuse me if I’m a little confused by the Raleigh News &…
Skip this entry if you’re looking for commentary about Donald Trump, Roy Cooper, or some other aspect of public policy. What follows deals primarily with the less important topic of…
Katherine Timpf of National Review Online details the latest example of college campus silliness, courtesy of an Atlantic Coast Conference school. Georgia Tech’s student government has released a two-page “inclusivity…
Eric Owens of the Daily Caller details a dispiriting view of diversity at one Atlantic Coast Conference school. Clemson University has allocated nearly $27,000 on diversity training materials for professors.…
A Republican-sponsored bill in the state House of Representatives would require N.C. State University and the University of North Carolina to withdraw from the Atlantic Coast Conference if the conference…
Lots of opinions out there about the “repeal” of HB2–whether it’s good, bad or ugly. But no opinions matter more than those of sportswriters at North Carolina’s daily newspapers. Given…
The John Locke Foundation’s Jon Pritchett and Duke professor Ed Tiryakian document for Federalist readers a disturbing trend involving sports and politics. It appears several sports leagues have decided one…
The latest print edition of National Review features the following blurb: The National Collegiate Athletic Association — the self-serving bureaucratic apparatus that reaps an annual multibillion-dollar paycheck off the labor…
I’ve been posting a lot about my favorite sportswriter—N&R columnist Ed Hardin—but what can I say he’s the gift that keeps on giving. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I…
Walter Williams‘ latest column at Human Events exposes logical flaws in the campaign against North Carolina’s House Bill 2. North Carolina’s legislative body passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security…
Here’s a fun little exercise in which WRAL tried to add up the costs of HB2 but discovers “they have created only a tiny ripple on the state economy.” WRAL added cities’ economic impact figures…
If you thought the Greensboro News & Record was apoplectic over the NCAA pulling championships from North Carolina due to HB2, well, it’s nothing compared to the Atlantic Coast Conference…