Before joining the John Locke Foundation, I spent 28 years in the sports industry as an executive, investment banker and consultant. I’ve studied and worked with lots of the sports leagues and have been involved in various transactions and consultations — including several sports venue financings. I am a big believer in the future of...
Editor’s note: With the announcement that the NCAA will move seven national championship events from North Carolina because House Bill 2 remains part of state law, and the Atlantic Coast Conference considering its own response, we chose to repeat an eerily prescient parody from the August 2016 print edition of Carolina Journal. Vowing not to be outmaneuvered by...
Athletic events would be held near ESPN HQ; conference officials said move would let ACC regain 'moral stature'
Dubious numbers helped provide political cover as politicians lured the money-losing NASCAR Hall of Fame to the Queen City.
Competition has the power to broaden educational horizons for children, but you'll have no luck getting North Carolina's education establishment to embrace it.
The education establishment should learn lessons from other aspects of daily life.
Many of the coming stories on NC races will reference public-opinion polls. I encourage you to read and use the poll results carefully.
Where the media are concerned, it’s long been understood that you don’t need to let the facts deter you from taking a swipe at radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Government measurements offer helpful information only if the government chooses appropriate measures.
CHAPEL HILL— In a few short months, thousands of college football players will put on their helmets and pads and begin final preparations for the season. College sports are a central aspect of life at many colleges and universities. Administrators hope for strong athletic success in marquee sports to reach out to prospective students. Still, those who participate in college sports are supposed be students first, athletes second. That issue has been placed under the microscope recently by the NCAA in its attempt to increase graduation rates. A 2003 report indicates that 62 percent of student-athletes graduated within six years of entering school.
Paul Chesser reviews Michael Lewis' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game; W.W. Norton & Company, 2003, 288pp., $24.95
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