Summer league news is some good and some bad for the Tar Heels. The NBA Summer League regular season is over with Theo Pinson of the Brooklyn Nets the only former Heel going on to the playoffs. There some consolation games for the teams that didn’t make the post-summer league, but I have no earthly […]

Is Carolina proving that graduation is more important than money? Two interesting basketball stories came out Thursday about early season games from the Bahamas to Chapel Hill. The common denominator is Gonzaga, which I will explain in a little bit. The Tar Heels are playing their first regular-season game in Carmichael since 1986, before they finally […]

N.C. State’s worst kept secret is finally in  public. I remember when former State athletic director Debbie Yow was joking about UNC hiring John Blake as an assistant football coach, because it seemed that everyone in college athletics except for Carolina knew Blake was a recruiting cheater with the nickname Black Santa. Well, she proved to be […]

There’s only one thing wrong with the all-star festivities. Major League Baseball has its all-star game and surrounding activities just about right. Finally, the dumb rule that the winning league gets home-field advantage in the World Series is gone. Good riddance. Can you imagine something that important being at stake to boost attendance in what […]

The Tony Bradley experiment is coming to a crossroads. The former sixth man on the 2017 NCAA champion Tar Heels took his family’s advice over that of basketball professionals and entered the NBA draft. He was selected with the 28th pick by the Los Angeles Lakers and eventually wound up with the Utah Jazz. His first two […]

The Hornets and Knicks look like the biggest losers in free agency. Surely, the Charlotte Hornets have an excuse. A good franchise has never become a great franchise because it plays second fiddle to college basketball in this state. And, like the Panthers of the NFL proved, robust fan support isn’t coming your way until […]

It’s a here-and-now decision made by most college recruits. I have suspected for a number of years that kids don’t care about history today as much as we did when we were their age. History was important, whether it was world wars and politics or the greatest movies and athletes of all time. Today, not […]

It’s a here-and-now decision made by most college recruits. I have suspected for a number of years that kids don’t care about history today as much as we did when we were their age. History was important, whether it was world wars and politics or the greatest movies and athletes of all time. Today, not […]

Fan Duel claims that Carolina football is in trouble. As a sports betting site, Fan Duel should know its stuff. So I guess reporting on its picks for the 2019 college football season is okay. I think. But the site’s victory predictions aren’t pretty for Mack Brown’s return to the UNC sideline, which begins with […]

Fan Duel claims that Carolina football is in trouble. As a sports betting site, Fan Duel should know its stuff. So I guess reporting on its picks for the 2019 college football season is okay. I think. But the site’s victory predictions aren’t pretty for Mack Brown’s return to the UNC sideline, which begins with […]