Share “Did you get the chocolate we left for you?” asked David Smalls, president of the Walterboro (S.C.)  Chamber of Commerce. “Hmm … chocolate,” I thought. “No, sorry. I didn’t see it, but will look for it when I get back to the room.” I love chocolate — white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark — makes no difference, well not...

Share Woody Durham is the Rembrandt of college play-by-play.  No paint-by-numbers here.  The only numbers are the players numbers, whether on the football field or men’s basketball court.  A canvas on which he paints with words.  So well that many turn on their TV set, press MUTE, then turn up the sound on their radio to “see” the game through...

Share Robbie Mooring was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  And not for the first time.  But this time he was intoxicated, joyriding on the back-country roads of South Carolina with his friend Mack, who was equally wasted at the wheel. Robbie was also under the influence of severe depression following the death of his father 42 days earlier.  Throw in the...

Share Ka-ching.   The sound of cash registers tickles the ear. It’s game day in Chapel Hill; and the doors at UNC-Chapel Hill Student Stores extend outward at a 10 degree angle — two hands waiting to greet old friends. Planted in the center aisle, next to the magazines are two long, narrow folding tables stacked two-feet high with a wall of...

Strap on your walking shoes, grab a water bottle, sunscreen, and get ready to experience four continents -- 11 countries -- all in one day through the imagination of Disney. Where else in the world is Mexico located beside Norway, China next to Germany, or Japan alongside Morocco? Only at Walt Disney World’s Epcot World Showcase Pavilions, which enlightens visitors daily that, “It really is a small world, after all.”