Word: tarheel
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North Carolina Coach Dean Smith utilized such tactics to build Tarheel dynasties in the 1970s. His strategies inspired the two biggest rule changes in college basketball in the last ten years, the three-point shot and the 45-second shotclock...
...athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin cheer meaning "What rocks!," and tarheel originated during the Civil War as a disparaging term for folks from the Carolina pine forests...
...margin, Tarheel State Republicans chose Congressman James Broyhill, a mainstream conservative, over the N.C.C.'s man, former Ambassador to Rumania David Funderbunk, to run for the Senate seat vacated by another Helms protege, retiring Senator John East. Broyhill promptly announced that he would wage his campaign without the help of Helms' organization, thank you very much. The continuing bitterness in G.O.P. ranks brought smiles to Democrat Terry Sanford, 68, a onetime North Carolina Governor, who, in a crowded field of ten candidates, won his party's Senate nomination with 60% of the vote...
...occurred to the Los Angeles Times's Jim Murray that putting Indiana's famous bully in charge of an Olympic team is like "assembling an aircraft carrier to ply the waters between Staten Island and the Battery." Murray wonders: "All this to beat Uruguay?" Behind former North Carolina Tarheel Michael Jordan, the Americans crushed Uruguay, 104-68. As yet no international incidents have fulminated from Knight, who is still wanted in Puerto Rico five years after menacing a gymnasium guard at the Pan American Games. He has caused some celebrity to be visited on French Translator Marie Holgado...
They have nothing to be ashamed of, those North Carolina Tarheels. Sure, number two hurts, if only because it's so close. But when the season is placed in perspective, alotted its place in Tarheel history next to the great players and great teams, like the championship of 1957, the final-round loss of 1977, next to Billy Cunningham, and Charlie Scott and Walter Davis, and...the list goes on, why this squad won't be number two, they'll be winners...