I’m not exactly sure why, and it’s surely an indication of my transition into aged irrelevance, but the above headline is a big deal.

I will say that I’ve heard of Justin Bieber. But that’s because I heard a story on BBC World Service on (via WUNC, the NPR station to which I listen) that an American has developed a program that will erase or block all references to the young Mr. Bieber from a computer. He must be a big deal if the BBC is talking about him and if there are people actively trying to escape him.

At any rate, the fact that the Greensboro Coliseum has snagged the pop star is great.

And I’m thankful I don’t have a 12 year old daughter right now because it’s going to be a long wait until December.

(BTW, according the The News & Record, he performs December 15th and tickets go on sale June 12th.)

UNC's Tyler Hansbrough shoots during Thursday's game at Greensboro Coliseum. Credit: Jerry Wolford / News & Record

In case my readers in other parts of the country are wondering if the “Greensboro” that is written at the edges the floor of 1st round NCAA basketball tournament games is the same Greensboro about which I write, it is.

Greensboro is – among other things – a college round ball town. We’re so close to so many famed programs that it’s no surprise.

But you are likely to see yard banners and those little flags people fly outside their car windows for schools all over the region: Clemson, Virginia Tech, U of Virginia and, of course, NC State, Wake Forest (just 35 minutes away in Winston-Salem) and Duke and Carolina.

I don’t profess any favorite team. But there is that whole question about if God isn’t a Tarheel, why is the sky Carolina Blue?

But that’s a topic for another post.

Anywho, Greensboro does a good job of hosting the NCAA and will be doing the same for the ACC tourney several times in the next few years.

Get your car flags ready.

Greensboro has been visited annually by the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus for as many years as I can remember. Often the Elephant Walk from the train station to the Coliseum is the biggest “outside the three rings” spectacle.

This year there was another.

The Greensboro Children’s Museum (watch this space for an upcoming profile) became center stage for the clowns.

As images are all that are needed to relate how great it was, I’ll stop typing now.