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Strickland: Witness to something special
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DURHAM -- Sports writers, by definition, are impartial observers.
Sports writers, contrary to popular belief, also are human beings.
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Basketball brings new challenges to coverage
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11.16.2008 : 10:40 pm
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A few years back, Jon Ham began writing a "What We Do" column while he served as managing editor of The Herald-Sun.
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Hawkins: Hunting is more than 'just' hunting
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11.15.2008 : 9:18 pm
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The opportunity to describe a day afield is one all hunters should cherish. Noted images of hunters by the fire at night, hunters on the tailgate of a truck and hunters over a plate of eggs over easy and coffee stirred with an embellishment of truth are frequent scenes.
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Hawkins: Telling a tale, teaching a lesson with acorms
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11.8.2008 : 10:38 pm
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Ping! Plat-plat! Rat-tat-rat-tat-tat-pling!
"Dad, what is that noise?" asked my oldest son, Chase.
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Hawkins: Especially in tough times, outdoors can be cathartic
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10.25.2008 : 7:54 pm
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In recent columns, I have focused discussion on the effect our economy has upon the outdoors.
The ability to hunt and fish, like other life expenses, has grown increasingly expensive in the past seven years. Last week, Captain Dale Britt of Morehead City commented about how his sportfishing business has suffered this season because of rising costs of fuel and its trickle up to other expenses, from ice to filters for his boat.
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Economy changes how we spend time on the water
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10.18.2008 : 11:28 pm
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Ships lost at sea or in danger at sea use the universal distress signal: SOS.
This signal, adapted in 1908, can be the final communication sailors communicate prior to meeting fate by the sea.
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McCANN: If Draughn is in, Little must be out
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10.13.2008 : 10:01 pm
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There was that time I pulled a Shaun Draughn and asked Raleigh's Ligon Middle School football coach Robert Allen to give me more touches out of the backfield, because I could run the ball, too.
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Hawkins: Economy may change how people spend time outdoors
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10.4.2008 : 8:16 pm
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It was the second week of October of 2001. Talk in the previous weeks centered on homeland and attacks and threats.
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Hawkins: Hospital visit can make you appreciate time outdoors
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9.27.2008 : 8:41 pm
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The scene was unusually tranquil by hospital standards.
From the reflection against tinted glass, I could see a gaze of jealousy brewing. The patient was on his feet after an extended course of medical treatment. He stood by the window looking beyond tinted glass.
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Hawkins: Hank Parker Sr. hardly needs an introduction
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9.20.2008 : 7:59 pm
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This coming weekend marks the second of what hopefully will be an annual event in Durham, with the Sportsman's Banquet on Saturday at Ridgecrest Church's gymnasium.
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Hawkins: Bow-hunting season is worth putting up with insects, heat
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9.14.2008 : 12:35 am
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There was a time when a mosquito kept me from the archery woods in early September.
I knew archers who pined to be in the woods when foliage was green and hot days featured flying bugs. The archers I knew took to trees with energy in search of deer.
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Dove season signals the end of lazy days, also serves as a reminder about need for farmers
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9.6.2008 : 8:12 pm
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Each September since 2000, I have written about the passage of summer.
The column brings attention to the opening of the dove season. In the past, I have written much about dove season, though hardly a sentence about how to hunt dove.
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Simple things make time outdoors more enjoyable
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8.23.2008 : 11:25 pm
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There's an old, white bucket that I have that once held oil but is weathered and worn.
The plastic covering on the thin steel handle is gone, and there are several nicks around the edges. This old bucket feels comfortable in my hand.
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Hawkins: Fishing becomes the tie that binds, enriches
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8.19.2008 : 1:24 am
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The tightly wound spool of line had occupied the far right corner of my tackle box for at least three seasons.
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Dascenzo: Thoughts from 39 years in the Triangle
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8.19.2008 : 12:49 am
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DURHAM -- It's not easy to say goodbye, but it's time. Thirty-nine years flew by so fast that trying to figure out what is the highlight of it became next to impossible.
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Dascenzo: Season No. 2 will be huge for Davis
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8.14.2008 : 10:32 pm
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CHAPEL HILL -- Butch Davis must know the scenario better than anyone.
Second-year should be better than the first, right Butch? I mean history is really on Davis’ side when you come right down to it.
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Dascenzo: Half dozen to watch
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8.13.2008 : 12:46 am
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I am wondering when the ACC will win a BCS bowl game ... and trying to understand why once-mighty Florida State actually has lost 12 games in the last two seasons ... and, oh yes, trying to imagine what N.C. State might do to South Carolina’s psyche if the Wolfpack wins in Columbia, S.C., on Aug. 28.
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Hawkins: Fishing for the fun of it
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8.9.2008 : 11:10 pm
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"Just having the sun on my back, seeing the sun and enjoying the sun, that's what I like about fishing," said Taron Thomas, age 10.
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The stuff of fishing
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7.26.2008 : 11:53 pm
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Mention a trip to the coast to a landlocked boy from rural Orange County and the mind begins to spin. Such is the case when we planned the annual family adventure to the sea.
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LT-Peppers: A tricky comparison
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7.20.2008 : 12:08 am
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Comparing talented football players always is risky, but it’s also fun.
The best defensive player ever to come out of North Carolina, and the only UNC player in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, is Lawrence Taylor.
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Hawkins: Preserving memories in color
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7.20.2008 : 12:07 am
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The photograph was in a wooden frame. It was brown and dusty along the edges. He reached inside the bureau and took the frame in his hand.
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Out of gate quickly?
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7.16.2008 : 11:15 pm
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If I've heard it once, I've heard it about 200 times already.
David Cutcliffe better win his first game at Duke, against James Madison on Aug. 30 at Wallace Wade Stadium.
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Dascenzo: Ellington expects his stock to rise
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7.14.2008 : 9:49 pm
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CHAPEL HILL -- Wayne Ellington, North Carolina's 6-4 rising junior, saw it coming Monday at the media room in the Smith Center, which was full of individuals wondering just what planet the Tar Heels are on.
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Hawkins: Anglers for sale
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7.12.2008 : 7:53 pm
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I recall an advertisement for financial advice, which was sold by a clean-cut gentleman wearing a dark suit.
He sat on a park bench with his briefcase by his side, looked squarely into the camera and talked of retirement and annuities and honesty and trust.
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Remembering trucks for fishing
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7.5.2008 : 11:29 pm
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They brought him home last Thursday after not having been home in many months.
By chair, with his son pushing, he was wheeled into the yard of his home.
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Hawkins: Letting go of the barb
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6.28.2008 : 11:27 pm
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Fish hooks are as diverse as the anglers who fish with them. There are hooks that have bait attached, hooks that are molded around plastic and wood and metal, hooks that are small and hooks that are big.
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