One night at La Residence some random guy sat down next to me wearing a smile wider than the Gateway Arch. We got to talking and he explained that he attended New York University and was visiting Chapel Hill for the first time. Amid all the UNC basketball players and other athletes in the bar the dude was awestruck.
Football fans tend to revisit past NFL drafts and assess which teams picked wisely and which ones picked busts (i.e. Ryan Leaf Akili Smith and the Detroit Lions' annual selection).
Pretend you're the guy who watches the Super Bowl to see football in between the commercials. (Okay maybe you don't have to pretend that hard.) But let's suppose that you're also the guy who wants more commercial time instead of a halftime show. Well picture this: A single riveting block of airwave transmission during halftime where sponsors pool their collective slogans jingles characters and celebrities into one epic narrative — a Supercommercial. Imagine …
UNC senior Alyssa Francona knows baseball curses. Her father Terry" broke Boston's 86-year-old ""Curse of the Bambino"" during his first season as manager of the Red Sox in 2004. Before that" her dad managed in Philadelphia" a city plagued by the less-storied ""Curse of Billy Penn.""
During my Monday history class" I eavesdropped in on this kid talking about North Carolina football. ""T.J. Yates is out for six weeks"" he said. That's bad news."" Yep. Yates' left ankle injury changes the entire complexion of North Carolina's season. When Virginia Tech's Orion Martin brought Yates to the ground Saturday" he also toppled the firm foundation on which Tar Heel football stood for the first time since Sisqo's heyday.
