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Your regular HB2 update….
For starters, sportswriters can’t seem to get enough of that wise old philosopher—-UNC coach Roy Williams—-waxing on the ill-effects of HB2 on our fair state. All I can say is…
Roy Williams
American basketball player and coach
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Feminist speaks out in favor of bathroom bills
For starters, that wise philosopher Roy Williams has been getting a lot of ink for slamming HB2 following UNC’s victory over Notre Dame in Greensboro. Ol’ Roy’s dadgum comments are…
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N&R featured obituary
Yeah yeah I know President Obama pressed Vietnam on human rights during his recent trip there, but not before he made dadgum sure (channeling my inner Roy Williams here) to…
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Bloomberg.com article claims NCAA doesn’t really want to punish Carolina
Paul Barrett writes for Bloomberg.com that the NCAA’s latest missive in the UNC academic/athletics scandal proves the governing agency doesn’t really want to punish Carolina. The NCAA wants to let…
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A UNC-CH scandal reading list
Spot the themes: • Stewart Mandel, Fox Sports, “Why North Carolina’s titles, wins, might be safe NCAA punishment” Attempting to predict penalties in an NCAA investigation is only slightly less…
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Did UNC’s academic/athletic malfeasance start in 1993?
The staggering finding by Kenneth L. Wainstein’s investigation into UNC-Chapel Hill’s “shadow curriculum” for athletes — discussed in some detail by Jane Shaw at the Pope Center — was that…
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The UNC-CH scandal — yet again
I did my undergraduate degree at Chapel Hill and I’m utterly disgusted by the ongoing athletic and academic scandal. Big-time college sports is likely the most corrupting thing in American…
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McCants: Roy knew
ESPN reports: Rashad McCants, the second-leading scorer on the North Carolina basketball team that won the 2004-05 national title, told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that tutors wrote his term papers,…
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Hear no evil, see no evil, proceed?
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s treatment of researcher and learning specialist Mary Willingham, whose “analysis of academically at-risk athletes at UNC-Chapel Hill showed that more than half…
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Fats Thomas’ rental car biz
I’ve got a friend —a Dook fan –who always claims that UNC gets favorable coverage from the local sports media because all the sportswriters are Carolina journalism grads. Never taken…
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P.J. Hairston and Holloway Street
Jon Ham over a sister blog Right Angles knows Durham, which in case you haven’t heard is where UNC (and Dudley High School) basketball player P.J. Hairston was arrested and…
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Act like you’re the president, for crying out loud
Organizing for America sent this message from our calm, cool, collected president who has the power to turn back the seas and bring peace by his very presence. SUBJECT: We…