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Dirk Cotton is a retired executive of a Fortune 500 Internet company who loves to spend time with his family, fly fish, shoot sporting clays, attend college baseball games, sail, follow the Wildcats, and write. Everything else he does is just for fun. A computer programmer-cum-marketing executive-cum-financial planner who now wants to be a writer, he apparently can't decide what he wants to be when he grows up. He and his family moved to The Southern Part of Heaven in 2005 and couldn't be happier with that decision.
contributor
member since 6.17.09
chapel hill, nc
dob:
12.21.52
personal site: being southern and below the line
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DIRK'S LATEST COLUMN | |
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clanking shots off the back of the irony
this season's offcourt sideshow
3.6.10
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It’s easy to get caught up in the madness of college basketball and miss the entertaining sideshow just offcourt. Let’s take a moment to review some of the rich ironies of the 2009-10 season.
Irony is an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. You know, irony. Like when the most maligned college coach in the country, John Calipari, spends a Sunday during basketball season raising over a million bucks for relief efforts in Haiti.
The “March to 2,000 Wins” that UK “won” by beating Drexel last December 21st holds some ironies, too.
Bill Mayer, writing for the Lawrence Journal-World, wrote recently, “It’s regrettable that [Kansas University] grad Adolph Rupp factored so heavily in a shady Kentucky march to glory. Kentucky may have hit 2,000 first but KU and UNC will do so more honorably. The Wildcats got there with considerable assistance from cheating and NCAA criminal indifference and oversight.”
(The World p...
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re: fall back
This is hysterical - and I live in Hawaii - we don't even DO daylight savings time. This style of humor reminds me of Will Rogers. Excellent. Thanks for the laughs!
re: fall back
That was truly beautiful!
re: ten reasons to ignore lists
Awesome as usual.
re: ten reasons to ignore lists
Hey Dirk: appreciate your great sense of humor; and the lists thing: recently, trying to cure myself of expecting the worst (while not completly a nay sayer, I do have a tendency to think good things happen to other people, unless I do them myself); I decided to do a daily "Ten Good Things!" list. The first day, I actually surpassed myself, and went to a dozen. By the end of the week, I had one "good:" I've decided to abandon this list, as being a Pollyanna is not healthy for a writer! Cheers!
Check me out if you like: On Intrepid as CJ Carroll, on Lulu, my 13 books: http://lulu.com/cjcarrollbooks
Keep on writing!
re: ten reasons to ignore lists
A fun surprise to stumble across at close to 4 am. It's original, hit my funny bones (because I am indeed guilty of a few of your points), and was a good, breezy read. Very enjoyable!
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