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What’s THAT Supposed to Mean?: Green Day, "Jesus of Suburbia"
And there’s nothing wrong with me, this how I’m supposed to be, in a land of make-believe that don’t believe in me. What’s THAT supposed...
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High school basketball: The return of "Nine Toes."
Star-News, Feb. 23, 1994. A player returns from a hunting accident to spark his team to an upset.
NBA: Laettner needs to let his game do the talking
Women's sports: Silver Bullets speeding on a train to nowhere
Predictions: Brazil will take home World Cup title
Soccer league can survive in baseball's shadow
High school soccer: Hoggard 5, Laney 3 (OT)
Women's college basketball: UNCW's diminishing roster not sign of progress
Star-News, Sept. 21, 1994. The coach had driven away many of the players, leaving a team that had little chance of competing.
Disc golfer puts his clubs away for good
Forget shoulder pads, try tackling a band uniform
Arenas seek just the right music for the masses
College basketball: Get rid of conference tournaments? No way
1999 Women's World Cup: USA learns the game
Knight Ridder Tribune, July 1999. How the dramatic final of an event that surprisingly captured the nation's interest taught many of us how to be soccer fans. Next up: a women's league.
Kindersoccer and other oxymorons
Soccer Journal, Jan-Feb 2016. A look at how to train (and how not to train) the littlest players.
Duke vs. Clemson, men's basketball preview
Duke Chronicle, Jan. 1991. A look at Duke's upcoming opponent, which loooovvvved to shoot the 3.
10 Myths About Women's Soccer Journalists
Our Game magazine, Summer 2014. No, it's not as glamorous as you think.
Physicality in women's soccer
Our Game magazine, Sept 2013. Skills are great, but the physical side of the game is never going away.
Political correctness fad will fade
Duke Chronicle, March 1991. The PC debate came back with a vengeance in the 2010s, but at least we accept recycling and some of the other things the "PC critics" fought back then.
Down with academicese
Duke Chronicle, April 1991: A rant on academic language so persuasive that at least one professor (not mine) shortened the page requirement for an upcoming paper.
Down with letter grades
U magazine, Nov-Dec 1990. A truncated version of a column I wrote for the Duke Chronicle.
Amy Verhoeven, women's volleyball
Duke Chronicle, Sept. 1990.
Rebecca Smith, women's soccer
Duke magazine, Sept-Oct 2011. Smith is a fellow Duke alum who played professional women's soccer in Germany and captained the New Zealand team in the Women's World Cup earlier in the year.
Sue Harnett, women's basketball
Duke Chronicle, Nov. 1990. Veteran player returning from knee injury.
"Bogus baron" sentenced
Duke Chronicle, Jan. 1991. In-person coverage of the sentencing of a man who posed as Maurice de Rothschild, a member of the French nobility, and attended Duke.
Gulf War protest march and arrests
Duke Chronicle, Dec. 1990: In-person coverage of a march from Duke to downtown Durham in protest of the looming Gulf War. Several students chose to be arrested.
The Duke Chronicle, vol. 84, no. 30 (Thursday, October 6, 1988) :: The Duke University Chronicle
Interview with Richard Thompson, p. 18
The Duke Chronicle, vol. 84, no. 74 (Monday, January 16, 1989) :: The Duke University Chronicle
Me hanging with Clint Eastwood and Steve Allen (p. 3 and 6)