The IronDog Chronicles

Everyone gets their shining moment…
Which is why I chuckle at this story shown on Henry Abbot’s True Hoop today about the mutual fund executive who beat Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one at Mike’s famed “Flight School”/A-Level Executive Retreat.
Everyone has their story how they got Mike.
Here in the Hill…You’ll never top the legend of […]

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Look what goodies have been uncovered…
And this is some confidential product…So, keep this on the low.
Yet, what am I saying? Already the hype is out on this line of shoes, Vael Project, from my man, Coleman Horn, of Santa Barbara. As the one of the founders of Medium shoes, the guy brings a […]

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If you dig deep in your local online periodicals…Oh what gems you will find…
Check out David Ian Miller’s SFGate interview with parapsychology researcher, Dean Radin.  And yes…parapsychology, but not in a Dr. Venkman, Dr. Stantz, or Dr. Spengler type of way that you may have discovered through “Ghostbusters” in ‘84.
Radin, who has held appointments […]

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Keep your eye open…
I was at the Open Eye Cafe last Wednesday afternoon and lo and behold…An interview breaks out. After talking about sports and blogging in the Carrboro/Chapel Hill area, Wayne Sutton from Local Conversations in Raleigh, NC put me on the camera.
Wayne addressed a few questions about the powers of social networking, […]

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It’s always good to see one of your boys shine…
For my boy and fellow co-worker, Gavin Rhodes of Brooklyn, New York, he shined  big-time with his victory in the New York Times Collectible Car of the Year Contest.  Check out the NYTimes article by Richard Chang here.

(Photo: NYTimes)
A total of 558 cars were entered in […]

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Nice night in the Hill for an enticing listen…
Special thanks to TNT for re-running the All-Star game at 11PM for our listeners.  With this week’s WXYC ‘Sports Rap’ show, DTH columnist, Gregg Found and I discussed the Virginia Tech ‘W’, Tywon Lawson’s injury, MJ’s view on the NBA, and Tyler Hansbrough’s legacy in Tar Heel […]

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Whatever you do ‘Be True’…
The ‘Be True’ slogan was the message that etched into my thoughts this summer while working for Nike on the re-release of the Nike Dunk Collection for 2008.  Nike assembled a great team for developing the concepts for the Dunk story and I was more than happy to grab a few […]

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Past, present, future in Durham on Saturday night…

I caught up with Paul Miller, a.k.a. ‘DJ Spooky’ in the ‘Green Room’ of Duke’s Reynolds Theater before his lecture show “Video Soul: From Wattstax to The Advant Garde” at Duke University on Saturday night.
Check out the interview here. 
Paul’s show blended video, beats, and multimedia culture for Duke […]

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Happy 100 to an American icon…Converse.
Yes, I’m still bitter that the Chuck is no longer produced in North Carolina, but how can you be sore at the company that has brought so many American icon to the floors and pavement?
Well, the Nike owned North Andover company is coming out with a full global ad campaign […]

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I had a run a run-down post on yesterday’s call of the Heels clipping the Devils…
Well, here’s my response.
After the game, I ran into Howard Garfinkel, and I asked him real quick what he thought of the game. His reply. “What are you going to do…You don’t have your…Uhh…What’s his name? Your guy..the […]

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