Duke’s season may have taken a turn for the worse. The Blue Devils’ lost their most important player Monday night, indefinitely, and with it their invincibility. Tre Jones, the least heralded of the Fab Four, is the floor leader of their top-ranked team as the head of Duke’s offense and defense. Jones dove for a loose ball […]

“The other team has coaches, too.” That was a favorite line of Dean Smith when his Tar Heels were preparing for a tough opponent or they didn’t play as well as expected. I thought about that after Chris Mack’s Louisville Cardinals cleaned Carolina’s collective clock Saturday at the Smith Center in what we hope is […]

This weekend should show if the ACC is truly a two-team race. Basketball commentators are crowing again about how strong the ACC is from top to bottom, with six teams ranked in the top 15. But we’ve seen and heard all this before, and I don’t buy it. The ACC looks like a two-team race […]

Weather will be a big factor in who gets to play for the Super Bowl. In the AFC playoffs, early games on Saturday and Sunday will likely be impacted by the conditions. The Indianapolis Colts, who play at home inside Lucas Oil Stadium, and the LA Chargers, who have not played a game in really […]

Photo by Todd Melet I guess you could call Carolina’s win at State pretty ugly. The Tar Heels continued their six-straight dominance over N.C. State in Raleigh by using almost everything they had in their tank to hold off the Wolfpack and overcome their own mistakes. For example: Turn the ball over 23 times against a […]

The good news and bad news about Clemson’s blowout of Alabama. I sure hope everyone understands why Dabo Swinney replaced Kelly Bryant with true freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence after four games of the season. Swinney knew his team could not beat the No. 1 Crimson Tide without an explosive offense it lacked in 2017. Could […]

Does playoff football rip out your guts, or what? You can say what you want about the National Football League – and I’ve said it all before – but the greed, the money, the politics that control the NFL can’t keep us from watching when the playoffs roll around. For sports fans, all the drama […]