Archive for March 26, 2007

Cloth Talk #25: Bill Topkis, part 2

Posted in Scouting Blogs and Websites by John E. Pannell on March 26th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net, Cloth Talk #25 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or by direct download at http://www.scouthistory.net/blog/. Remember, you do not need to have iTunes installed in order to listen to Cloth Talk. They also have a dialup-friendly version available for those who do not have high speed internet connections.
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Matt Groening


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The Season Has Ended: Georgetown 96, UNC 84 (OT)

Posted in Tarheel Basketball by John E. Pannell on March 26th, 2007 at 1:32 am

Old Well 25 years ago UNC won the national championship with a last second shot by Michael Jordan against Georgetown.   History did not repeat itself.  Carolina’s season came to a disappointing end Sunday evening with an overtime trouncing by Georgetown. 

Carolina had a slump of sorts in the latter part of the regular seaon, displaying less than stellar play, but bounced back.  They ended their regular season with a victory over “dook”, clinching the ACC regular season title, and then went on to win the ACC tournament.

Unfortunately, that Carolina team did not show up on Sunday.   For most of the game they were firmly in control and victory seemed to be almost assured.   Then about halfway through the 2nd half it was almost as if the team went home and were replaced by a lackluster playing gang of dopplegangers.   The Tarheels went almost the whole overtime period without scoring a single point.   By that time Georgetown had completely owned them.

They now return to Chapel Hill, having made it to the Elite 8, but unable to add a National Championship banner to the Dean Dome’s rafters.  They boys in Chapel Hill will not be commemorating the 25th and 50th anniversaries of previous championships with one of their own.



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Lodge 116: The Last 2006 NOAC Flap?

Posted in SR-5 Lodges, Santee 116 by John E. Pannell on March 26th, 2007 at 1:00 am

Just when you thought there would be no more patches issued for last Summer’s NOAC, along comes Santee 116 with their first ever NOAC flap.   Thanks to Jason Spangler for the information and scan.

Jason reports this flap didn’t arrive until after NOAC.  The lodge had these and wanted to release them at the 2006 Fall Fellowship, but they could not decide how to distribute them.  Once a decision was made, the lodge released these at their banquet in January 2007.

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