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Woody Sang Danke Schoen
April 20:  Ten years ago I was backstage with Wayne Newton after a benefit show in Dallas.  NASCAR mogul Bruton Smith asked Wayne “I was wondering if you were going to sing Danke Schoen” - Wayne’s signature song .  “I always sing Danke Schoen.  That’s what my fans want to hear me sing.”   That’s why Carolina fans love Woody Durham.

  Wayne & Woody have both delighted their fans for 40+ years giving them "what they want to hear".

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Posted: 4/20/2011 6:33:08 PM by BobLee | with 32 comments


"Just" An Extraordinary Ordinary Man
April 16:  I had no idea what Mac did for a living.  I never knew what 95% of my friends’ dads did for a living.  They were dads doing grown-up “business stuff".  Mac ran the FCX – Farmers Cooperative Exchange.  “Men like Mac” were the backbone of America during the second half of the 20th century.

  
Men like Mac have been leaving us for the past 20 years or so.  Mac left us several weeks ago.  Mac was Ed’s dad.

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Posted: 4/15/2011 10:44:41 PM by BobLee | with 12 comments


Paid To Call The Corners
April 14:  Firemen are not heroes for playing cards in the firehouse.  Firemen are heroes for running into burning buildings.  Umpires are not paid to call belt-high fastballs down the middle of the plate.  They get paid to call the corners. 
  
  College Chancellors get paid to “call the corners” and to be the cool head when all about them are losing theirs.  Some times Chancellors lose their heads too.  This week was one of those times.

  This was a very difficult column to write.  I prefer belt-high fastballs.  Someone has to call the corners.  If not me, then who?

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Posted: 4/13/2011 8:23:16 PM by BobLee | with 13 comments


GOOD News re: UNC Football - Finally!
April 11:  A year ago an epic tweet forever scarred UNC Football.   In ensuing months the best off-field news has been "No Tressel-esque incriminating email has surfaced YET." Guess what?  I have some very GOOD NEWS to report.  No. BOTBob has not developed a conscience or a spine. 

  UNC Football is teetering on the brink of SEC-ization.  Can a hero from it's past rescue his alma mater?

   Also observations of this year's "Tradition like no other ..." And an update on Jim Harrick Watch from Amedeo's parking lot.

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Posted: 4/10/2011 8:02:21 PM by BobLee | with 5 comments


Like Two Teenagers In Heat
April 8:   Compared to Debbie Grabs Mark, the Butch hiring fiasco had the thoroughness of a Supreme Court nomination.  McDonald’s vets a new fries frier more thoroughly than either of these multi-million $$ hires.  If Debbie & Mark were teenagers in heat needing to get married in Dillon SC; it would take longer than this courtship/ wedding.

  Gary Williams leapfrogs into 2nd place on Wuffs’ Most Hated list.  Who is #1?  It’s a trick question.

  Sometimes managing to matter just means showing up.... at a sort-of-country church on the outskirts of Durham.

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Posted: 4/8/2011 12:33:27 AM by BobLee | with 8 comments


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Woody Sang Danke Schoen
April 20:  Ten years ago I was backstage with Wayne Newton after a benefit show in Dallas.  NASCAR mogul Bruton Smith asked Wayne “I was wondering if you were going to sing Danke Schoen” - Wayne’s signature song .  “I always sing Danke Schoen.  That’s what my fans want to hear me sing.”   That’s why Carolina fans love Woody Durham.

  Wayne & Woody have both delighted their fans for 40+ years giving them "what they want to hear".

» Read More

Posted: 4/20/2011 6:33:08 PM by BobLee | with 32 comments


"Just" An Extraordinary Ordinary Man
April 16:  I had no idea what Mac did for a living.  I never knew what 95% of my friends’ dads did for a living.  They were dads doing grown-up “business stuff".  Mac ran the FCX – Farmers Cooperative Exchange.  “Men like Mac” were the backbone of America during the second half of the 20th century.

  
Men like Mac have been leaving us for the past 20 years or so.  Mac left us several weeks ago.  Mac was Ed’s dad.

» Read More

Posted: 4/15/2011 10:44:41 PM by BobLee | with 12 comments


Paid To Call The Corners
April 14:  Firemen are not heroes for playing cards in the firehouse.  Firemen are heroes for running into burning buildings.  Umpires are not paid to call belt-high fastballs down the middle of the plate.  They get paid to call the corners. 
  
  College Chancellors get paid to “call the corners” and to be the cool head when all about them are losing theirs.  Some times Chancellors lose their heads too.  This week was one of those times.

  This was a very difficult column to write.  I prefer belt-high fastballs.  Someone has to call the corners.  If not me, then who?

» Read More

Posted: 4/13/2011 8:23:16 PM by BobLee | with 13 comments


GOOD News re: UNC Football - Finally!
April 11:  A year ago an epic tweet forever scarred UNC Football.   In ensuing months the best off-field news has been "No Tressel-esque incriminating email has surfaced YET." Guess what?  I have some very GOOD NEWS to report.  No. BOTBob has not developed a conscience or a spine. 

  UNC Football is teetering on the brink of SEC-ization.  Can a hero from it's past rescue his alma mater?

   Also observations of this year's "Tradition like no other ..." And an update on Jim Harrick Watch from Amedeo's parking lot.

» Read More

Posted: 4/10/2011 8:02:21 PM by BobLee | with 5 comments


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