It was April 7, 2008, hours after Kansas had captured its first national title in twenty years, and as the fever pitch died down Jayhawks head coach Bill Self had a memorable conversation with his assistant coach Joe Dooley, who had come to KU when Self took over five years earlier. "Coach," Dooley said to his boss, "We've got to find a way to do this again." As … [Read more...]

It could have been just another night taking orders and serving food at Totopo’s, except for the fact that Morgan Cheripko is the type of server who likes to get to know her customers a bit. And the conversation she struck up on that particular night last year helped transform Cheripko from a typical working student to a pioneering East Carolina student-athlete. One of the … [Read more...]

The East Carolina softball team got to grab a piece of history with its first-ever game against Duke on Wednesday, but the hot ECU squad made sure it wasn’t a creating a historical highlight for the fledgling Blue Devils, defeating the visitors 4-1 on a chilly Greenville afternoon. It was a significant win for a handful of reasons. The victory was the fifth in a row and … [Read more...]

In the excellent movie "The Post," Katherine Graham is giving a lavish dinner party — a retirement soiree for a friend — when she learns of a highly sensitive and tense situation involving The Washington Post, the newspaper for which she is the publisher, and the potential release of the Pentagon Papers. The consummate DC hostess, Graham does her best to keep the appetizers … [Read more...]

When Walter Williams is laid to rest on Friday he will be lauded as a visionary, a philanthropist, and an exceptional businessman. Williams, who died Monday at the age of 88, was undoubtedly all of those things, but after the funeral, at a public reception honoring Williams, friends will have the chance to tell their personal stories about the man Pirate Club Associate … [Read more...]