Mack Brown hopes that smaller is better — or at least just as good. My new nickname for Carolina’s football stadium is “Kozy Kenan.” As practice begins this week just up Ridge Road, Kenan is more pristine than ever awaiting the first home crowd for the Miami game on September 7, after periodic practices there […]

A retired Michigan State president gets millions on her way to court. That’s the headline the rocked the college sports world when it was announced that Lou Anna Simon, who faces two felony counts and two misdemeanors, was retiring from the university with a buyout of $2.45 million after 45 years at the school, 13 […]

Here is what the ACC Network is up against as the launch nears: When the ACC and ESPN made a deal years ago to offer a conference-dedicated slew of programming, the so-called cord cutters hadn’t yet sharpened their knives and scissors. Cable TV was still in its prime, the most common way for viewers to […]

Anson Dorrance’s world is still right here in Chapel Hill. The surge of woman’s soccer in this country can be placed right in Anson’s lap after he built a dominant program here and cornered the market on the relatively few world-class recruits out there at the time. But, as I’ve said repeatedly, he created a […]

Basketball recruiting has become a spring game again. Are you old enough to remember when there was no early signing date in basketball? It was back in the day when recruiting wasn’t the off-season sport, when there was no Poop Sheet, predecessor to all the rumor blogs of today, when coaches could keep who they […]

David Tepper has some soccer people in Raleigh really worried. The new owner of the Carolina Panthers has a vision for his franchise, and it is spectacular. In the meantime, as an aside, he sent a message to Major League Soccer, which has been heavily recruited by the city of Raleigh to put a franchise […]

Can Mack Brown’s offense score enough points to win six games? The Tar Heels’ second-stint head coach says one of the differences between the old Mack and the new Mack is that he is not going to be a CEO anymore. That is how Brown was labeled in the past — hire a great staff, […]

Does it seem like the Carolina-Duke recruiting rivalry is back on? For decades, say the 1960s through 2010, the juggernaut basketball programs were recruiting a lot of the same guys. To name a few, I remember the high-profile battles for Dick DeVenzio in the ‘60s, Dennis Wuycik and Gene Banks in the ‘70s, Danny Ferry […]

ACC football is on the verge of losing any semblance of balance. As the ACC Football Media confab gets under way in Charlotte this week, Clemson is looking like the most dominant program in conference history. That’s because a combination of NFL-like facilities and talent have arrived at once was “Little ol’ Clemson,” according to its current head […]

If you’re a Yankees hater, man, Monday was your night. So there I was on the couch, multi-clickers by my side. Watching the very mediocre Red Sox eke out a 10-8 win over Toronto while between innings torturing myself by turning to cable news where the debate raged on over whether Trump is a racist. Of course, […]