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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…
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Story by Chris Graham Their Web sites have your attention as draft day draws near. Admit it – you wonder about the people who run them, where they get their information, whether they’re just regurgitating the opinions of other draftniks.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] We plebeians descended on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club like a Mongolian horde. One of the perks of volunteering at the President’s Cup last fall was playing a round of golf at the stomping ground of the elite, so we charged the gates, ready for our…
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Story by Chris Graham Matt Hyson appears to be on a path to reuniting with his brothers in TNA – though he isn’t confirming or denying published reports to that effect. “We’ll have to wait and see on that,” said Hyson, known to wrestling fans as Little Spike Dudley, who teamed with The Dudley Boyz…
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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…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham This has to be the trashiest county on earth. You can’t drive down the road anymore without seeing bags and bags of trash sitting along the roadside.
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I’m Benzi, Chris’s beloved if not spoiled pooch, and I only have a few minutes, so here goes. I am sick and tired of cats – particularly how they walk around unfettered, as it were.
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