Now leaving for Paris, Rome, Baghdad and points east…

Say "Smith Reynolds" around here and most people see a headline in their minds, something like "Smith Reynolds Dead in Mysterious Shooting at Reynolda". That carries a lot of extra baggage, all of it negative. But what if we substitute another headline, just a few years after Lucky Lindy flew the Atlantic and a few…

Take me out to the ballgame…

Click the arrow to see and hear the iconic song, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame", written and recorded in 1908, the founding year of the Winston-Salem Twins baseball team. It would be nice to be able to make a simple post about a simple subject. This one started out to be such a post,…

Greatest Tar Heel Athlete?

You can argue all you want, but everybody knows that the greatest UNC-Duke football game happened in 1948, when one great Tar Heel, Art Weiner, used his rear end to block a last minute field goal attempt by future PGA star Mike Souchak to preserve a 21-20 Tar Heel victory over the hated Blue Devils.…