Clinton, South Carolina, Friday, March 15, 2019, 12:22 p.m.

Oh, wow.

We say, “oh, wow,” too much.

The last time North Carolina went 3-0 against Duke was 1975-76.

Oh, wow. Wait a minute. The Tar Heels and the Blue Devils don’t play in basketball three times every year.

This is the first Clemson football team ever to win 15 games in a season.

Oh, wow. The 1981 Clemson team also won the national championship and every game. It was 12-0. Back then there weren’t 12 regular-season games, then the conference championship, then two playoff games. It was regular season, then a bowl game, but 12-0 was as good as those Tigers could get.

Kyle Busch is on the verge of winning 200 races in NASCAR’s “three major series,” tying the great Richard Petty.

Oh, wow. Petty won his 200 in the top series. Busch has 52.

Hudson Swafford has won more money playing professional golf ($5,824,805) than Jack Nicklaus ($5,734,031).

Oh, wow. Swafford won the 2017 CareerBuilder Challenge and earned $1,044,000. Nicklaus won the 1962 U.S. Open and earned $17,500.

We’ve stopped thinking. In part, it may be because we have stopped reading. It seems that we are more likely to accept statements on blind faith when they are told to us.

“Nobody in history has done more than me in his first two years,” Donald Trump says over and over and over, world without end, amen.

Oh, wow.

 

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