How lucky are we getting David Glenn to join our team!
This is no exaggeration. In all my years in the media, I have never known anyone more talented than Glenn, who has become a contributor to Chapelboro.com. His bi-weekly presence will make the fastest-growing website in the Triangle even more popular.
I’ve known David since he was a student, and then law student, at Carolina. Although he may have dreamt of making tons of money or defending famous people as a lawyer, the ink from the printing press got under his nails. And he always came back to it.
Glenn’s introductory piece Thursday was originally published in our Carolina Court magazine in October of 1991, and it stands up as the most thorough and informative profile on Hubert Davis, who was entering his senior year at UNC and, unbeknownst to him, began his journey to the head-coaching chair as Roy Williams’ successor.
Glenn was, and remains, a great writer, although he was not good with deadlines. Fortunately, our annual preseason and historical anthology magazine had some flexibility, and often I actually had to find Glenn and ask him, “Where the hell is the story you owe us?”
After getting his law degree, which he never had any intention of using in the courtroom, Glenn became a local sportswriter and then a well-known sportscaster in Miami, where he could have been a star.
But a love for the ACC drew him back to the Tar Heels state where took over the old Poop Sheet/ACC Sports Journal and began a radio career that led to the David Glenn Show and the North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year recognition.
Frankly, in a struggling industry he was making too much money and eventually his show was not renewed. But he had married his “lovely and talented Maria” by then and with two teenagers they weren’t going anywhere. He is now a serial entrepreneur.
DG (the second such person we now have along with DG Martin) may get his own show back someday or start that book I have been bugging him to write, but for now he is a Chapelboro columnist.
He will make a great website even better and, assuredly, we’ll get him doing something on WCHL. We, along with the allure of North Carolina for this Philly boy, are glad he’s still here and still really good.
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