tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22818992091034811872024-03-13T15:10:39.669-04:00Actions and Reactions IIby Jim PomeranzJim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-7889092402197421442021-11-09T06:52:00.001-05:002021-11-09T06:58:10.212-05:00If Charlotte, why not Raleigh for relocating the Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters?Not to rekindle the on-going love-hate relationship between Charlotte and
Raleigh, but when it comes to the Atlantic Coast Conference possibly relocating
its headquarters, possibly departing Greensboro after nearly 70 years, I ask,
“If Charlotte, why not Raleigh?”Recently, the ACC Board of Directors voted to explore, to look at, moving out
of Greensboro which doesn’t mean Greensboro is losing theJim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-14268566367974272872020-04-20T17:43:00.000-04:002020-04-20T17:43:47.486-04:00All The News That's Fit or All The News That Fits
Los Angeles Times editorial in The News & Observer, 4-19-2020
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All The News That's Fit To Print—New York Times slogan
All The News That Fits, We Print—Sarcastic NY Times slogan
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It
was Sunday morning, April 19, 2020. As is our everyday custom, my wife and I were
sitting at the kitchen island, Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-40424501215257341182020-04-18T10:28:00.001-04:002020-04-18T11:13:26.844-04:00If 2020 elections are not conducted in November, who becomes US President, NC Governor?
With a strange and somewhat
complicated twist, Bernie Sanders could become the next President of the United
States without being the nominee of the Democratic Party. Read on…
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The coronavirus and its COVID-19
illness are changing the wayJim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-3961905349357430642020-04-03T15:40:00.001-04:002020-04-03T16:39:44.500-04:00Former Wolfpack football coach Dick Sheridan elected to College Football Hall of Fame
The
official announcement that former N.C. State football coach Dick Sheridan has
been selected by the National Football Foundation for the College Football Hall
of Fame was low-key. Though not intended, the understated declaration was
somewhat a reflection of the inductee.
An
ESPN2 SportsCenter anchor on March 11 during the 12 noon broadcast offered few
details of the HOF selection of 17 Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-17879213452417221232020-03-29T11:23:00.002-04:002020-03-29T11:23:43.053-04:00Timing in Politics & Finance: Ask Richard Burr!
Will Richard Burr resign over "stockgate?"
Timing in politics is very
important. Just ask the United States Senators who were privy to early government
reports about the coronavirus and possible economic devastation and who sold
substantial stock holdings just prior to the big stock market downturn.
Republican Richard Burr
is one of those. Senator Burr,Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-85133893975525268682019-12-05T09:37:00.000-05:002019-12-05T10:07:00.729-05:00What's ahead for N.C. State Wolfpack football? Head Coach Dave Doeren returns for 8th season; Interesting, tough 2020 schedule looms
Wolfpack AD Boo Corrigan
Is the writing on the wall for Dave Doeren?
Lest you live in a vacuum, all it
takes is a little reading between the lines of a statement from N.C. State’s
athletics director Boo Corrigan in which he spouts typical post-season support
of his head football coach, who just completed Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-80249070344351109102019-11-26T08:50:00.000-05:002019-11-26T08:50:23.716-05:00State-Carolina: One game DOES a season make It has been said, by many wise men not in a position of truth, that one game
does not a season make. But, this week, for Wolfpack fans, a win by N.C. State over its arch-rival,
North Carolina, will go a long way of healing a dismal and trying season of
football.
Fans of the light (and dark) Carolina
blue might quickly say that Duke is Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-71564034692247163212019-11-17T09:58:00.000-05:002019-11-17T12:13:59.141-05:00Are these trying times for NC State football? Yes!
Earle Edwards
Imagine
for a moment or maybe just a fleeting millisecond, it’s the summer of 2030,
and to the surprise of many, Dave Doeren announces his retirement just prior to
his 18th season as N.C. State’s head football coach. To have
such a thought would be more than a simple taxing-on-the-brain, especially at
this point in the Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-71033796224369111232019-10-02T21:21:00.000-04:002019-10-03T20:59:09.540-04:00ACC Basketball Equitable Scheduling
Now that the Atlantic
Coast Conference will be playing a 20-game conference basketball schedule,
starting this season but much to the chagrin (mildly put) of many of the
15-team league’s head coaches, it’s time to take a deeper dive at equitable scheduling.
What we have is not
equitable. A one-time run through ACC opponents for 14 of 20 conference games
is fair enough. But, the other Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-16095699527565317522019-07-16T14:00:00.000-04:002019-07-17T17:48:19.122-04:00You don't know that word: Look it up!
On July 11, The News & Observer published a letter from Dr. Assad Meymandi who has had many of his opinion letters published in The N&O. This--https://tinyurl.com/y3wh54o4--is a link to letters in the July 11 print edition. You'll need to scroll through others to get to his. Anyway, in my own letter to the newspaper, I suggested a dictionary is needed when reading his Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-17330129822644476702019-04-16T18:18:00.000-04:002019-04-16T18:18:30.566-04:00ADIDAS SCANDAL: Where's the money? Did Dennis Smith Jr get $40,000? Did Mark Gottfried and Orlando Early pocket money? Those questions and more with no conclusions and no accusations
As the Adidas college basketball bribery scandal moves along—the latest with
former Adidas executive James Gatto agreeing to pay $100,000 restitution to
N.C. State University for legal fees and scholarship funds—the question that
continues to linger, for me, is:
Did Dennis Smith
Jr., or any member of his family ever receive money from anyone representing
the Wolfpack program—head coach Mark Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-29542701757685542202019-03-26T10:57:00.000-04:002019-03-26T10:57:35.110-04:00Ned Barnett's attempt at humor falls shortOn Sunday, March 24, The News & Observer Associate Editor Ned Barnett took a stab at humor in writing about the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Humor died with his stab. Here's his routine: A funny week for the UNC Board of Governors
I penned a response to Ned's effort, hoping he would give me a forum to counter his assertion, all in good fun and my own attempt at Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-30427492381252565102018-03-25T11:34:00.000-04:002018-03-25T21:47:49.778-04:00It's only the cost of a Big Mac meal: My dislike for Duke Energy grows over rate increase requests
Wilbur
Ross and Bo Somers must be two peas in a pod. They may not look alike but their
take on increasing the price of consumer goods is nearly identical.
Ross is
a billionaire and the current Secretary of Commerce in the Trump
Administration. Here’s how he justified price increases due to tariffs on steel
and aluminum: "In
a can of Campbell's Soup, there are about 2.6 pennies worth of steelJim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-75617647866506692592018-01-18T09:42:00.001-05:002018-07-22T15:50:23.802-04:002018 NC State football: 8-4 overall; 4-4 ACC
The 2018 NC State football schedule was released yesterday. My quick prediction is for an overall 8-4 record and a 4-4 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference. There is no in-depth basis for this, just a gut feeling.
It will be Dave Doeren's sixth season, and, though he loses several excellent and key players, the Wolfpack should not only return a lot of good athletes, but it should also now beJim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-7351157460124498062018-01-11T14:45:00.000-05:002018-01-15T11:20:41.568-05:00Beer and Pistachios! Better than "rope and corn"
My friend, Jim Valvano, (yes the Jim Valvano who coached the
NC State Wolfpack to the 1983 NCAA National Championship and who died of cancer
in 1993) used to joke about exercising and dieting.
“Exercise?” Jim would pilfer from other comedians while
holding court in baseball coach Sam Esposito’s office just down the hall from his own on the top floor of the three story the Case Athletics Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com5Cary, NC, USA35.79154 -78.78111690000002935.3792725 -79.426563900000033 36.203807499999996 -78.135669900000025tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-62555592249202876732017-10-17T12:17:00.001-04:002017-10-17T21:02:48.285-04:00Now, I believe in Wolfpack football?
Last spring when I looked over the NC State Wolfpack football schedule, keeping in mind the absolutely awful first four seasons under head coach Dave Doeren, I penciled in a 6-6 regular season record and a bowl game win over South Florida or some other minor directional school.
My record reasoning was valid: three wins in four non-conference games and three wins in eight Atlantic Coast Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-64985025245746620742017-09-12T13:54:00.000-04:002017-09-12T14:02:04.261-04:00“S.P.A." / “P.P.B.M.A." / “P.P.B.M.E.I.S.F.”
Note: The following is
not original material. My wife says it came from someone to whom she reported
in her job but surely it came from someone else before him. Just enjoy!
Imagine you’re in a meeting, one of those boring company
musts or a seminar to which your boss sent you at an exotic location but you’re
stuck inside when outside paradise awaits the end of the theater style presentationJim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-23350204654484413712017-07-10T11:17:00.000-04:002017-07-26T17:55:32.517-04:00Let's open North Carolina's State Health Plan to non-State employees
United
States Senator Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, in a 24-hour "cable" news
station discussion about the Senate health care bill which he does not support
(as of this writing), made an interesting suggestion: Let those who need
Obamacare join plans with established entities that have group policies instead
of the exchanges.
It's
an interesting proposition but his proposal went nowhere with theJim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-12571719464691700162017-06-19T07:10:00.000-04:002017-06-19T07:10:37.619-04:00NC Governor & General Assembly should consider unaffiliated voters when scheduling elections
It’s
admirable if not ambitious that North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper wants to have a special
election for the General Assembly prior to its 2018 session. The
special election would come after districts for the NC House and NC Senate are
redrawn without using race or politics as a guide. Gov. Cooper’s push for a
quick election is admirable—though many think he is grandstanding just as he
Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-58636666751209917142017-03-23T11:40:00.001-04:002017-04-10T11:05:10.862-04:00Equity scheduling for a 20-game ACC schedule
Click on the schedule to enlarge and print!
Let’s stop with the permanent partners in Atlantic Coast Conference basketball and go to an equity schedule, similar to the NFL. Based on the results of the previous season the higher ranked teams play each other twice and the lower ranked teams play each other twice.
The
2019-20 season—when the conference expands to 20 league games per Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-28355185250549018772016-11-30T18:22:00.002-05:002016-11-30T19:37:55.767-05:00Debbie Yow did all she could do about Doeren
Debbie
Yow did about the only thing she could do.
Saturday, NC State’s athletics director issued a statement that said she and the
University would honor a contract with football coach Dave Doeren. She
included some fancy language about the program being on the right track despite
not meeting its goals in Doeren’s fourth season, a post-season bowl game for
being 6-6 the only lofty position Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-66077414407789140182016-10-24T20:45:00.000-04:002016-10-24T20:45:08.676-04:00Oh So Tired of Politics, This Year!
Should any of these four be in the White House? I say "NO!" What say you?
I’m tired. Oh, so tired.
It’s not my age as I near 65.
It’s politics, one of my three passions along with
writing and golf.
Until recently; politics is out, sort of; not writing
or golf.
The elections—presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial,
and others—have me in a funk.
It’s not just the commercials Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-10197218967874628182016-09-22T17:31:00.001-04:002016-09-22T22:36:10.011-04:00The disappearing printed newspaper: The N&O
With the naming of Sarah Glines as the President and
Publisher of The News & Observer,
the newspaper’s writing soon may be exclusively on the wall or some other flat
surface.
It’s at least a bit closer now than ever before. It probably
won’t be long that it’s so, exclusively.
It could be the wall of a Facebook page or the face wall
of a smart phone or a notebook or a laptop or the Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-48401907374042854982016-02-02T16:41:00.000-05:002016-02-02T16:41:14.332-05:00Get your head out of the sand, Roy!
Considering he’s
just a basketball coach, it’s not surprising Roy Williams, the current savior
of UNC basketball, has little depth of thinking about anything other than
sports in general and, in particular, basketball. He readily admits getting his
education beyond his job from just one television outlet: ESPN. “If it’s not on ESPN, I don’t watch it,” he said recently as he
criticized the sportsJim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2281899209103481187.post-52257379486724648922016-01-11T10:28:00.000-05:002016-01-22T10:56:54.786-05:00Is Black the new Red for Wolfpack athletics?
Tuning
in on TV to watch last Thursday’s home basketball game against Louisville, I encouraged the team
wearing white uniforms to score and to play aggressive defense. My wife soon explained my team, the NC State Wolfpack, was wearing black. Louisville, the visiting team,
was wearing white, a reversal of typical garb for college basketball. Home teams are usually in
white (or a light color); Jim Pomeranzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08520233289740107309noreply@blogger.com19