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OPINION: Sports team keeps eyes on the ball
Jan 13, 2013 (The Fayetteville Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Before the college basketball season began, I predicted that UNC's Desmond Hubert would average 8 points and 6 rebounds for the Tar Heels.
And I didn't just predict it -- I made a point of letting the newspaper's two ACC basketball reporters, Stephen Schramm and Bret Strelow, know about it. They smirked.
I thought I had some sports bona fides. After all, I was a college athlete and sports editor of my college weekly. OK, the sport was wrestling and I spent my career getting beaten up at small colleges across the Southeast. And the weekly Davidsonian had only a page or so devoted to sports.
As it turns out, after 14 games Hubert is averaging 1.3 points and 2.1 rebounds per game.
The above explains why our ACC hoops coverage is the domain of Schramm and Strelow, two guys who really do know what they are talking about. Between them, they have been covering North Carolina sports, including forays into Tobacco Road basketball, for more than 20 years.
And as conference play heats up, they are moving into their second year of working as a team for The Fayetteville Observer.
You can find their work all over: in the newspaper, on our website and mobile site, and in what some like to call the Twitterverse. (Incidentally, you can follow them there @bretstrelow and @stephenschramm.)
In the Observer, each writes a weekly column: Bret on Tuesday and Stephen on Saturday. Most weeks, you'll see a feature from one or the other. And they cover almost all of the home games for N.C. State, Duke and Carolina.
Online, they share the most popular blog on fayobserver.com. (You can find it at blogs.fayobserver.com /accbasketball.)
They post new information, insights and opinions on that blog two or three times a day. They also post a new video once a week, displaying what they like to believe is their deadpan humor while providing a few college basketball tidbits.
Barring a late-season surge from Desmond Hubert, they will remain our resident basketball experts. I encourage you to check out what they are writing about: Maybe we'll all learn something.
Executive editor Michael Adams can be reached at adamsm@fayobserver.com or 486-3579.
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