Nightmare on Franklin Street:  This column’s inevitability was preordained.  Watching the final minutes of Thursday’s UNC v VaTech game I wondered, “if we win should I delay this column”.  Will Graves’ desperation 3 dipped in and spun out.  A clear sign from the basketball gods – “BobLee, go ahead and write that dadgum column”.

HOME TOWN CONFIDENTIAL: Tyler Hansbrough and I both have one - a bona fide Home Town. With the corporate transiency in the 70s-80s, lots of you were not “born & raised” in a clearly defined place. Tyler and I were. Such an identity can be “risky business”. Local boy making Good = GOOD. Local Boy getting hit with 51 federal indictments = Not So Good.

.... I noted in that last column that Kid’s learning lamp has been ablaze recently.  What a wonderful wonderful experience that can be!  I hope you all know what it means and that yours burns bright too ….. OF COURSE it does.  You’re reading BobLeeSays !!!   Daddy decided to “do something about it” ….. uh oh.

…. Every parent does it.  Gaze at your cherubic new born.  Imagine he/she slurping that oyster called “Life”.  Will he/she be a doctor, lawyer, ninja assassin, butcher, baker, Biggest Loser winner, quarterback, nickel back?   Does ANY parent wish their child to be “an Intellectual”.  Would even an “intellectual” wish such a gloomy fate on an infant.