Tag: basketball
#ncga: Steinburg hits up Currituck AGAIN for basketball $$$$$
We wrote extensively on last year’s Steinburg-sponsored debacle in Asheville. In his rookie outing as a basketball promoter, then-Rep., now-senator Bob Steinburg promised all kinds of benefits for Currituck County. For the “cheap” price of $50,000. (It didn’t hurt that now-Rep. Bobby Hanig —…
CCCC president: Demonstrations during Anthem no big deal, “not uncommon”
Lee County’s online snowflake newsletter and certified “safe space” is bending over backwards to defend the local community college’s defense of its students’ brazen disrespect of The National Anthem: Republican Lee County Commissioner Kirk Smith has suggested that Central Carolina Community College basketball players…
Currituck leaders defend payments to Steinburg, Steinburg Invitational
The VisitCurrituckOBX.com Battle in The Blue Ridge college basketball tournament happened in Asheville over Thanksgiving. Nobody broadcast the games on television. (ESPN didn’t bother streaming it on its ESPN+ service.) We covered the debacle from its conception to its finale. Then-state Rep. Bob Steinburg (now…
CCCC official: basketball team not protesting, merely showing “unity”
We told you about what we saw the other night during the National Anthem before the Sandhills Community College-Central Carolina Community College basketball game. The Central Carolina players and their coach locked arms and stood shoulder to shoulder during the singing of the anthem. No…
#ncga: A Steinburg Invitational post-mortem
Currituck taxpayers footed the seed money for senator-elect Bob Steinburg’s rookie venture into basketball tournament marketing. We’ve kept you posted on how it’s been going. Though, it is interesting how the senator-elect and his company are stone-cold quiet about how the tournament went and what,…
Stein-ball in Asheville: A not so full house.
There hasn’t been too much crowing about the inaugural effort of senator-elect Bob Steinburg’s Wolfestein Group. Steinburg loves to brag about himself and his work. It’s not like him to go so quiet. As you know from reading our site, the visitcurrituckobx.com Battle in The…
Steinburg can’t GIVE tickets away to his tax-funded basketball fiasco
According to Asheville officials, tickets to the visitcurrituckobx.com Battle for The Blue Ridge are — in fact — slower than molasses: The “Battle in the Blue Ridge” basketball tournament that Currituck County paid a state lawmaker’s company $50,000 to help promote starts Friday, and so…
A TV blackout for Steinburg Invitational?
State senator-elect Bob Steinburg promised Currituck County a PR bonanza in return for underwriting his private company’s inaugural sports promotional venture. Yes, college basketball season is upon us. The Tar Heels men’s team is headed to Vegas for Thanksgiving to take on the likes of…
#ncga: Steinburg basketball tourney ONE HOT MESS
Once again, we have mail. We’ve covered state Rep. Bob Steinburg’s venture into sports promotion — funded by Currituck County tax dollars — pretty extensively. This time we have a series of emails between officials at the Asheville Civic Center and Bob Steinburg, Jr. —…
#ncga: Indicted Steinburg aide ALSO working on Steinburg Invitational?
Judging from this email, it would appear to be so. Most politicians who have aides under indictment send them off to go spend more time with their families. Not Bob Steinburg. Steinburg has Diana London, currently under indictment for one felony count of embezzlement, (1)…
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