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Talented ... for a local writer I don't hate your team, just its fanbase

Raleigh, formerly NY, DE, TX.
Joined July 2010
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2 years
Sone personal news: I’m doing a thing…
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My favorite Steve Spurrier story
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Coach K consoling sobbing ucf players in the handshake line. This month, man...
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After Dabo mocked the long walk from the visiting locker rooms to the field here at Wallace Wade, it appears that Duke put a bunch of children’s bounce houses in Clemson’s path
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@ShawnKrest
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My mom is at a party at Kevin Costner’s house … along with Harry & Megan. So, if you’re wondering what it’s like to be the coolest one in the family, I clearly have no idea
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“If you’re not crying, it didn’t mean enough to you”-k
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6 years
This thread is tremendous
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Someone's An Idiot
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Couple played baseball to reveal their baby's gender and the guy...took the pitch (Video via @HearKyleTait )
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Zion showing off his “killers kill” customized shoes
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This is my son Jathan. He’s on the Air Force ROTC drill team at Sanderson High. This afternoon, he got his dummy rifle to practice with. (1/?)
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5 years
Zion cutting net
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6 years
To whoever gave my kids loose cough drops ... just don’t answer the door, jerk
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1 year
Armando Bacot on Jeremy Roach: “we played together in summers in high school, but I hate him now” You don’t hang out together ever? “No. I hate him”
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@ShawnKrest
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5 years
Exit Sandman
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@ShawnKrest
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2 years
Who knew that Brady Manek was sitting in Oklahoma for four years, just seething with bubbling hatred for NC State.
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2 years
My favorite stat uncovered today: 208 players have suited up for Coach K at Duke. 118 of them played for a Duke team that reached the Final Four
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Instead, I’ll be buying a lawn chair & patio table tomorrow morning & sit out in our driveway whenever he wants to practice, to make sure our neighbors don’t try to get him killed (5/5)
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6 years
How it feels to be Grayson Allen
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@ShawnKrest
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2 years
Brady Manek has now scored more points in his UNC career than Andrew Platek #UNCScoringlist
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@ShawnKrest
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6 years
Grayson Allen pausing after his speech to take a photo with a police officer
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@ShawnKrest
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2 years
Looks like Duke’s coaches won’t be shaking Hubert’s hand after tomorrow’s game either
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5 years
Someone asked k if Zion’s performance reminded him of Ryan Kelly’s return game. “Well there’s a difference in athletic ability, so I didn’t think of that. At all”
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Hamilton’s meeting with Wool E Bull did not go well @durhambulls
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2 years
UNC's new pregame hype video Mentions of Duke, Coach K & Cameron: 3 Mentions of Tar Heels, Dean Dome or any UNC coach: 2
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2 years
Not only is UNC not doing anything to honor Coach K, they're holding a halftime ceremony to honor Dean Smith and Roy Williams
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2 years
Dude, you had to run another 70 feet and you could have had an unassisted triple play.
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🚨 TRIPLE PLAY 🚨 (MLB x @CapitalOne )
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Luke Kennard has now scored more points in his first two years at Duke than JJ Redick: 1092 to 1084.
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5 years
Interesting fact: On the grounds of UVa, they don't call it a "championship," they call it an "accolade"
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@nathaliejacoby1 counting lids as pieces when selling 10-piece pots & pans sets
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@ShawnKrest
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6 years
Last year’s Final Four floor has been delivered to Unc. The entire floor. “We’re still not sure what we’re going to do with it”—team representative
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Ted Valentine took a knee to say a prayer for the fan, who got wheeled out in a chair
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5 years
46 games between Duke and UNC with both in the Top 10 is the most in any series in college basketball. Next most? 14. Duke and UNC have had that many since 2001.
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5 years
Can Reddish seems to be free of any limp #duke
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6 years
Duke locker room looked like post NCAA loss. Lots of guys on brink of tears
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5 years
From Nov 25, 2013 to Feb 28, 2019 Duke had three one-point wins. Since March 1, Duke has had three one-Point wins
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Cory Durden was on the field for that missed field goal. He then did an entire lap of the stadium waving goodbye to Unc fans
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Cam Johnson has now scored more points at UNC than at Pitt
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6 years
Donnie Brasco, all three Godfathers, Goodfellas. Sean Miller has never seen any of these movies? Not a single episode of the Sopranos? DON'T USE THE PHONE
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Puff Johnson becomes the 250th Tar Heel in history to score in the ACC Tournament
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8 years
Grayson Allen finishes the regular season with 666 points
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Crazies chanting "approve the light rail" as Duke officials take the court for a presentation
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4 years
Best part: Start of next practice, Coach K lined everyone up on the court in their spots and ran that play again. When Laettner missed, K said, "That's how close we are to our season being over"
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Flip knew he was close to a triple double. "I tried to get Coach to leave me in for the last two minutes to get it, but he said, 'You're closer to a quadruple double with turnovers.' So that put me in my place real quick"
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Is UNC - NCAA the best rivalry in college sports?
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And now, one of my favorite Dave Doeren traditions: Everyone ... EVERYONE ... that is a part of the football team from players to media relations staff gets a game ball when NC State beats Carolina.
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Caleb Love now has 179 assists at UNC, the same number as ... Hubert Davis
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4 years
ANYONE WATCHING A 38 YEAR OLD NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME DOESN'T WANT A CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
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Jon Scheyer now has more ACC Tournament wins than Jeff Bzdelik, Steve Forbes, Dino Gaudio, Pat Kennedy, Dave Leitao, Tates Locke, Bob Staack, Larry Shyatt, Kevin Stallings, Bucky Waters, Chris Mack, Danny Manning, Banks McFadden and Rick Pitino
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“Really? Lebron was here?”—Zion
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“Did you say anything to Lebron?” “No ... I didn’t have to” —RJ Barrett
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He went outside (in our cul de sac) to practice with it. Within 10 minutes, the police pulled up. Not sure who but one of our neighbors called them and the came right away (that’s a lie, I know exactly who it was) (2/?)
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Dear Lord (photo by @sheshootsports )
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Duke going all “what’s my name” on Kentucky
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2 years
That was UNC's first win in the state of Virginia since 1/24/2016
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4 years
Good chance UNC Syracuse is the last college game of the year ...
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5 years
Tre Jones now has as many rebounds as Trevon Duval did all last year #Duke
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7 years
“When Marvin (Bagley) got here, some of the guys may have thought ‘He’s going to take my place.’ Then they see him play & realize ‘That’s not my place’”—coach k
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Eric was my first interview as an NBA reporter. I went up to him at his locker pregame & started right in with my question. He held up one finger to stop me, then held out his hand to shake. "How are you doing? I'm Eric Montross."
@UNC_Basketball
Carolina Basketball
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With heavy hearts we bring you this update from the family of Eric Montross. Rest in peace Big E. 🔗:
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K ignoring his team in the huddle to watch them working on uvu guy
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6 years
That'll teach them not to have natural disasters!
@HTC247
Hoist The Colours
6 years
Virginia Tech opts out of three games at ECU, including the scheduled 2019 matchup in Greenville.
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A young cancer patient got to ring the bell after completing her treatment. I’m going to need a moment
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Joel Berry has scored more points vs. Duke than Jerry Stackhouse, JM McAdoo, Leslie McDonald, Wayne Ellington
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Jeff Capel rips UNC social media team (specifies that it "wasn't Hubert") for a negative post about his brother. Says Carolina fans have been "sh*tty" toward Jason since 2009
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Press row seat at ACC Tourney left vacant as a tribute to longtime NC State SID Bruce Winkworth who recently passed away
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"Well, UNC, the good news is you don't have to play Kentucky in Louisville to get to the Final Four." "Whew" "you have to play Kansas in Kansas City for the chance to play Kentucky to get to the Final Four"
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Zion: I didn’t realize I got up that high until i went back to the bench & Alex & Cam were like ‘bro...’
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We're only five minutes into UNC's exhibition opener, but Coby White has already dethroned Marvin Bagley III for the title of Greatest Hair in ACC History
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He set the drill rifle down and stepped away as soon as he saw the car approach. They were not aggressive with him and saw right away that it was “a misunderstanding” on the neighbor’s part (3/?)
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2 years
Josh Pastner just greeted Jim Boeheim “How many years is this?” Boeheim: “47” “47?” “Yeah. You won’t make it”
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5 years
assuming Zion has played his last college game, this will forever remain an odd section of the Duke career rebounding list: #102 Greg Paulus, 293 rebounds #103 Zion Williamson 292 rebounds #104 Steve Wojciechowski, 291 rebounds
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Ron Rivera is going to help pick the new name for the team? Welcome the Washington Punt From the 40s
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They suggested that maybe he could practice marching & drill in the back yard instead of the front yard (4/?)
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5 years
Ugh, Senior Night just wrecks everyone. Look at those faces... (photo by @sheshootsports )
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After tonight's @DukeMBB game, Coach K said, “You could write a story about all the people who man the different entrances, or portals. They’ve done it forever and they’re beautiful stories for beautiful people." So I did. About @shellheels
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8 years
Wasn't UNC the place where they played a football game during a hurricane a couple months ago? Just checking #SafetyFirst
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Derryck Thornton's uncle doesn't think Coach K gave him enough open shots tonight
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Roy cutting down the net for the acc regular season
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8 years
Here's where he kicked from
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Interesting (and true) fact: 9% of the minutes Stilman White has played in college have been in Elite Eight games
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Hinson with the last word
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Field rush and mosh pit in chapel hill
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4 years
Who tested positive? William? Or Mary?
@PackMensBball
NC State Men's Basketball
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Our game on Monday night against William & Mary has been canceled.
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Trevon Duval was not one of them
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Tony Bennett about to get his sixth win in four years as a one seed. ... To go with his four coach of the year awards
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"They came out & kicked our ass" -- Wendell Carter Jr.
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2 years
Can't listen to this song without singing it like this
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
2 years
38-years ago today Cyndi Lauper released ‘Time After Time’ (1984) …
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Also breaking: there appears to be a giant tub of Duke’s Mayonnaise on the Gatorade table, so prepare for the most awkward postgame pour on the winning coach’s head ever @DukesMayoBowl
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I already choke up every time I listen to "I don't know if there's any other coach in the country that would let me be Theo." ... then @sheshootsports sends along this pic
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Shawn Krest
6 years
Agree 100%. A knife fight is 2 people with knives, like the Beat It video. A one knife knife fight is a stabbing.
@DragonflyJonez
🐿️✨America Is Musty✨🐿️
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I really clicked on this because I needed to know if "chainsaw fight" meant two people, both armed with a chainsaw, were fighting. Sadly, that was not the case. It was one person. That's not a chainsaw fight. That's a fight with a chainsaw. Irresponsible journalism. I am appalled
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Rest of the country every year: "The Duke-Carolina rivalry is overrated, overhyped" Duke & Carolina:
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"If you're not crying, it was never that important" -- Coach K. But one Duke senior had reason to fight back tears
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Crazies chant “sit with us Paolo” so he is
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My daughter apparently invited @Lin_Manuel to her bat mitzvah. Based on her reaction when his response card arrived, I think she forgives him for not making it
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"Wait ... what?" -- M Gottfried
@Vasu
Vasu Kulkarni
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"Can you believe we still don't have to pay any of these kids?!"
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Last 100 point ACC tournament game: 2007. Last 100 point regulation ACC tournament game: 1999 UNC’s last 100 point ACC tourney game: 1993
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Shawn Krest
2 years
Give them $3 and move on
@ProFootballTalk
ProFootballTalk
2 years
Original USFL sues Fox over reboot of spring league that first debuted in 1983.
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UNC was the first team to get more than 60 rebounds against Duke since Clemson ... in 1975
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Brice Johnson became the 43rd Tar Heel to score 100 career points against Duke (101)
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Zion asked Barrett to rate his dunk today. “A five” “A five???” “You didn’t even do nothing”
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