The IronDog Chronicles

With all of the eco-conscious new developments popping up everywhere, let’s hope that there are a few throwbacks to the past…
All you would have to do is to take a jump back to the ’60s to check out some serious chill spots. I picked this selection off of “Cool Hunting”, check out the review […]

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I couldn’t let this day pass without well wishes…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. May all of your parades be true. What’s wild is what seems to be the lack of commotion that we’ve seen with St. Patrick’s Day in the past. Well, when you consider this year’s 17th falls on a Monday, […]

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Whoa…What a shutdown.
Computer problems held me back this week.  Man, what an overload without being online!  With an overloading C drive and Spring Break shutting down the fat pipes on campus, I had no options.  I have never twitched so bad throughout a weekend.
And yes, I am an online junkie…
Well, we’re back on tonight.  WXYC […]

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This is one of the wildest stories that I’ve heard in quite some time in Chapel Hill…
I don’t know whether to laugh or cringe.  Check out the national story from SI here.  Here’s the N&O version.
From the looks of things, this is really strange.  Check out this quoted report in the N&O.
“In one account given […]

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Tough road ‘W’ for the Heels last night…
Game Balls - Deon Thompson, Wayne Ellington, Bob Frasor
I have to say that I give Bob Frasor a game ball due to heady floor play.
A friend of mine emailed me with the note that Frasor “struggles with his shot when saddled with playing point. He is far more […]

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Should the Tar Heels be a little nervous going into tonight’s game…?
Here are some things on my head:
1.) Away Game at Columbus on National TV…Columbus will be hyped.
2.) A possible no-show on Tywon Lawson - Don’t be alarmed.
Bobby Frasor has done a great job handling the point on a fly. Keep in […]

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Congrats to UNC Chapel Hill Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Oliver Smithies, who was named one of three Nobel Prize honorees chosen for developing a technology for manipulating genes in mice to replicate human diseases.
I enjoyed this note from the N&O…”Smithies still works in his lab seven days a week. He […]

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You’ve been wondering where the posts have been here…?
Well, I’ve redesigned the front page of http://www.bretdougherty.com, and the “IronDog Chronicles” may now be reached along with my information site in full swoop at www.bretdougherty.com.
I’ve been posting a few writings on hoops, UNC Basketball, marketing, advertising, branding, fantasy sports, wi-fi, and the whole nine yards […]

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Not blaring, breaking news, but I just heard from a very close contact, who is a very solid source, that the Coach Roy Williams and UNC Tar Heel Basketball landed Kendall Marshall, who is a 6′3″…sophomore point guard.
Yes, a sophomore point guard for the Heels…Who would have thought that the Heels would reach down […]

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A while back, I posted on my Top 20 Nike commercials of all-time, and I had to post on the new Nike Football commercial today…
This post resulted after I caught this post on AdRants, which by the way, is one helluva blog for ad insights and job leads. AdRants bagged on the new Nike […]

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