She got game – and MJ knows it

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Duke’s Amanda Blumenherst was ready for the Atlantic Coast Conference golf championships – with a little help from a famous Tar Heel. “We had heard that he was out there playing, and so we were all really excited,” said Blumenherst, a freshman who won the individual women’s title at the ACC…

A boy named sue

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I’m not one of those tort-reform types who thinks that people should be prohibited from suing big companies that put mouse parts in their soft-drink cans or anything, but … Seriously, this country is way, way too litigious for my liking anymore.

Trail blazers

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham It really is a different world up there on the Appalachian Trail – one that appeals to high-school and college students, people going through various mid-life crises, recent retirees and, more and more these days, in particular, artists and filmmakers. “You really have a lot of elements with the Appalachian Trail…

Allen responds to Dems on campaign-focus issue

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Political commentator Chris Matthews says George Allen is the frontrunner for the 2008 Republican Party presidential nomination – and he’s not alone there. But that fact helps Allen not one bit in his drive for re-election to the United States Senate representing Virginia. Indeed, it could turn out to be a…

The fun-and-games department

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham It is not as if the steroids scandal that has been the talk of the baseball world for the past year or so was a recent revelation. “Every single sports reporter covering the San Francisco Giants in the late 1990s and the early part of this decade thought that Barry Bonds…