Staff blogs
Great Season for Wolfpack Baseball
Being a Demon Deacon at heart, I don't often pull for N.C. State. But when I do, it's well deserved (and I am an ACC fan, after all). That's how I feel about this year's NCSU baseball team, which was eliminated from the chance to go to the College World ...
Tiger's Win Yesterday
Tiger's been telling people in interviews he's not far off his game, but he's been inconsistent, so the doubters kept doubting. His win yesterday at Jack's place in Ohio ought to show them something. That's his second win of the year. I don't know if he'll ever dominate again they ...
What the Queen Needs Now....
All I could think about watching the queen stand for several hours on a barge floating down the Thames (albeit covered) in the wind and heavy rain was poor dear needs a spot of tea. Then, I received several emails from people who read my column in Sunday Scene about ...
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
What Are THEY Doing to the North & South?
Less than 15 minutes after selecting and ordering a (sun safari) pith helmet to better prepare for my annual fun in the sun while covering some of the nation's best budding amateur golfers out at Pinehurst No. 2, I went to the resort's website to checkout the dates for the upcoming 112th Men's North & South Amateur Championship and the 110th Women's N & S Amateur Championship --- mostly to get my summer calender set and see what was what.
The Passing of Doc
The passing of Doc Watson a few days ago is symbolic in that he's one of the last of the genuine grassroots musicians from the early days of folk and country music, at least before it got all slicked up and city-fied. He was the real thing, and represented our ...
Carolina Blues...not the basketball kind
Just received an email from a friend up north. Wow, she said. North Carolina hasn't copped good headlines in the national news lately. First the unsolved disappearance of the pretty Fort Bragg soldier. Then the sordid John Edwards trial (although doesn't the courthouse grass look beautiful?) Then Amendent One results. ...
TEE Shots (Senior Writer Tom Embrey)
Life Unpredictable
For the past few days I admit I have been consumed by the story of Aimee Copeland.
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
The Best in the Biz
As far as op-ed columnists go, they get no better than Maureen Dowd. In her Sunday Column from last weekend's NY TIMES, Dowd delved into one aspect of the issue, with diligence, regarding the recent "stance" Obama took involving the matter.
Reconciliation, not Reconstruction
I had a brief visit in the office this morning from Heidi Thompson, the West End woman who Pinehurst Police arrested last week and charged with stealing three campaign signs that oppose Amendment One. I shook her hand and welcomed her back to my office to sit down and talk. ...
Let the Buyer Beware...and Aware
I just read about scanning errors resulting in overcharging at Dollar General stores. Oh my, if I had a dollar for every error I've found at supermarkets and general merchandise stores I'd be rich. Sometimes, computers are not programmed with advertised prices. Other times the bar code is at fault. ...
More about guns
Regarding my column from Friday -- http://www.thepilot.com/news/2012/apr/27/whatcha-doin-with-that-gun-in-your-hand/ -- the website ended a rather interesting string of comments about gun control and gun safety. I wanted to continue the discussion. The column is merely a first-person observational piece about my evening on the gun range with some peers and the Southern ...
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
My First Spring Fest
A recollection of my first spring fest and an invitation for others to share their own
Taking aim
I am not a gun person. I have fired both a handgun and a rifle, but I’m the type of person who calls ammunition “bullets,” instead of “rounds.” I first held a gun in college. It was on a date, and the girl, perhaps trying to impress me, wanted to ...
Frank Sports Talk (F.W. Manning II)
Six Seasons of Sensational Sports Memories
In my first half-dozen seasons covering sports as a correspondent, then later as a staffer for The Pilot, the ole memory bank has slowly but surely built up -- quite a large sum.
We've Lost 'America's Oldest Teenager'
Dick Clark, "America's oldest teenager," has died at the age of 82. Teenagers of the late 1950s and on through the 1980s looked forward to watching Clark's "American Bandstand" every Saturday — and I was one of them. We looked forward to seeing which popular group would be performing "live" ...
TEE Shots (Senior Writer Tom Embrey)
Military Child Event Set for April 21
Military Child Event set Saturday.
History's mysteries
I am drowning in Titanica. Anniversaries (like Kennedy assasination and 9-11) prompt conjecture costing millions. Insatiable fascination is fed by the likes of zillionaire James Cameron, whose "expertise" surely must be profit-motivated given the re-release of his film in 3-D. I mean, he had the audacity to host a show ...
Tommy Davis and the 911 tape
Most of today has been given over to dealing with a 911 tape and an incident that happened April 4 at the home of state Senate candidate Tommy Davis. That evening, police were summoned to Davis' Aberdeen home. The report from the Moore County Sheriff's Office said Davis had threatened ...
A song for our times
I'm not really a political guy. I'm pretty middle-of-the-road and cross party lines frequently in the voting booth. While my job as the editor of this paper calls for me at times to weigh in on political matters for our editorial page, I don't generally throw around my personal viewpoints. ...
TEE Shots (Senior Writer Tom Embrey)
Pinehurst Welcome Center Needs Volunteers
Volunteers needed at Pinehurst Welcome Center.
