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A chill is in the air, the holiday decorations have gone from the closet to the walls, and everyone is at the mall. Yes, it's time once again to write

An extra dose of spice and sizzle, often a sign of desperation for bad TV shows, has worked wonders for the fajita.

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To the untrained eye, it was just a thick coil of metal. To us, it was everything.

How dominant has North Carolina been over the years?

Broncos are young and happy, but not foolish

Cindy Parlow was an offensive juggernaut for North Carolina during Sunday's NCAA championship game.

Which are you more likely to see this Easter: a virus that destroys your computer when you open e-mail or The Easter Bunny?

Fearsome scorer Oliver Bierhoff wasn't charging toward the American goal. Video cameras weren't rolling to record the action for an adidas ad campaign.

N.C. A&T 17 Howard 6 N.C. A&T head coach Bill Hayes knew he had to come up with something to counter Howard quarterback Ted ``Sweet Flight' White, who had thrown

For decades, Americans have learned what it means to be a soccer player. Or a soccer parent. Or even a soccer basher.

I’ve compiled power rankings / predictions / odds from several sources and presented them below in order of median. I chose to emphasize the median over the mean to diminish the influence of …

I did a presentation at the 2017 NSCAA Convention in L.A. called “Confessions of a Parent Coach: How to Recruit and Train Us.” Several people were interested in seeing it again and sharing it, so I…

I try to steer clear of politics, mostly for professional reasons. But this, to me, isn’t about simple politics. This is about our fundamental ability to discern fact from fiction. It’s…

The pipeline looks solid in the pool, gymnastics should be strong as ever, and soccer and basketball will be fine. Expect USA to prosper in four years’ time

The USA will win 88 medals this summer. Or maybe 136. Hey, the Olympics were totally predictable, they wouldn’t be any fun, right? Prediction analysis No, I didn’t do event-by-event predictio…

Athletes older than I am: 5. (Two shooting, three equestrian) Born in Georgia: 6. (Two Atlanta swimmers, two Atlanta track and field athletes, one Augusta track and field athletes, one Gainesville …

Most of the players who have played this year are locks for the Olympic roster, and coach Jill Ellis rarely experiments – because she doesn’t need to

Don’t stereotype. Don’t rush to judgment. Those are the lessons of the Duke lacrosse case from 10 years ago. Three men suffered the horror of being flung into the spotlight as wrongly a…

“The last of the Southern belles.” That’s how Dad described Meg Gunn when he broke the news that he had asked her to marry him after a “whirlwind courtship” (Miss Meg’s words) in 1997. She certainl…

Duke, Wilmington memories rekindled with NCAA matchup

We just stayed and jammed. I’m not even sure why Mr. Carter, a social studies teacher, was in the music trailer behind the gym. But he and I and Mr. Sherman, the merry ringleader of the eclec…

In two months, if all goes well and schedule permits, I will attend my 25-year reunion at Duke. I never really wanted to go anywhere else for college. In high school, I had a list of schools that m…

As with many other Internet shoutfests, it all started with an innocuous tweet: Can’t blame Sinclair for venting there. Bedbugs are every traveler’s nightmare. The big hype about bedbug…

On Saturday, I had the honor of speaking at the NSCAA Convention, presenting what I’d put together toward my Single-Digit Soccer book, sharing ideas, and making bad jokes about my youth team …

My U12 House league team finished its season on a chilly, windy Saturday morning, completing a four-team mini-tournament with a win on penalty kicks. After the game, the parents gave me a photo boo…

No, no — not talking about parents raising voices during games. We need to be restrained and supportive. If someone shoots video of you at a game and posts it on YouTube, it needs to be one o…

About 10 days ago, I posted a rough recap of what I discussed at my NSCAA Convention presentation on Single-Digit Soccer. Now, feel free to read along with the actual slides: SingleDigitSoccer_Dure…