Don’t worry, Mack Brown will be ready for kickoff. I know. When the release came out that Mack Brown had his right knee replaced Monday (by Mike Bolognesi, a Duke surgeon and former UNC football player), I got out my calendar and started counting backward from August 1, the day practice opens. I had my knee done at […]

Don’t worry, Mack Brown will be ready for kickoff. I know. When the release came out that Mack Brown had his right knee replaced Monday (by Mike Bolognesi, a Duke surgeon and former UNC football player), I got out my calendar and started counting backward from August 1, the day practice opens. I had my knee done at […]

ESPN is still negotiating with the major cable providers. With three months left before the new football season, confusion and concern continue to reign over the new ACC Network on ESPN. There is a reason, which no ACC member apparently is allowed to talk about. But we can as a media outlet. The chance remains that, just before kickoff […]

ESPN is still negotiating with the major cable providers. With three months left before the new football season, confusion and concern continue to reign over the new ACC Network on ESPN. There is a reason, which no ACC member apparently is allowed to talk about. But we can as a media outlet. The chance remains that, just before kickoff […]

Thanks to Aaron Sabato, the Diamond Heels stayed alive. The sky looked ominous all afternoon Friday, as reports of a storm down east was heading this way. Carolina was opening the NCAA regional at home – again – but had lost a lead to UNC-Wilmington in the ninth and trailed 6-5. A first-game defeat would have sent […]

Thanks to Aaron Sabato, the Diamond Heels stayed alive. The sky looked ominous all afternoon Friday, as reports of a storm down east was heading this way. Carolina was opening the NCAA regional at home – again – but had lost a lead to UNC-Wilmington in the ninth and trailed 6-5. A first-game defeat would have sent […]

Two Carolina football games are on ESPN; what about Miami? So Mack Brown’s Tar Heels now know they will open the season at 3:30 on Saturday, August 31, against favored South Carolina in Charlotte on ESPN. Their third game and first true road test is Friday night, September 13 at Wake Forest, also on ESPN. […]

It’s almost summer and the Duke-Carolina drama continues. Duke basketball looks to have its most unsettled team in four years with the Blue Devils’ one-and-dones looking good, but not grea,t and their lame duck starting center turning pro when he knows he won’t be drafted. Does he just want to get out of Dodge? Marques […]

Death felled the sports world, tragically, over the weekend. I sat down to write about the death of former baseball player Bill Buckner, who died at 69 after a struggle with dementia. I was going to write about how Buckner’s life and career were far more than the error he made at first base during the […]

Carolina baseball has again earned the easiest route to Omaha. The Mike Fox era of Tar Heel baseball has made Carolina synonymous with the College World Series. Fox’s program has been there seven times, losing twice in the championship game or series. Before Fox’s return to his alma mater, UNC had been to Omaha just […]