Are you over-timed out after the weekend? I am. I’m pretty sure they don’t keep records like the strange occurrence of beginning the Thanksgiving weekend with a double overtime game in football and ending it with a quadruple overtime in men’s basketball. Six overtimes on the field and court, and both hard-to-take defeats. Thank goodness […]

These Tar Heels never really took anyone’s best shot a year ago. They weren’t the old Carolina that was at or near the top of college basketball with a Hall of Fame coach, and their uneven regular season left them on the outside of the NCAA bubble looking in. Then came the postseason, where every […]

Does Mack Brown like talking to the media? Sure seems like it. The Carolina football coach must spend more time in press conferences and interviews than any of his compatriots. And he does more of it than his first stint in Chapel Hill, when he gabbed a lot but didn’t show much of himself. On […]

I just saw Duke play, and who are those guys? Full disclosure: I don’t follow recruiting very closely so my interest arrives after I see them play. Why expend any time and energy on some kid who might not come to your school? I am happy when they sign with UNC but want my first […]

Appropriate for college basketball, Hubert Davis sent his team to school. Coming off three mostly lackluster victories, the top-ranked Tar Heels came out with noticeable effort and emotion against the best opponent of the season so far in the 80-64 victory over previously unbeaten James Madison Sunday at high noon. Davis was frustrated after the […]

Paul Hoolahan was one of the Carolina building blocks. Back in the fall of 1970, I was covering UNC sports for the Daily Tar Heel. After practice one day, senior offensive lineman Paul Hoolahan stopped me and said, “Watch out for the Tar Heels this season.” I wanted to believe the block of granite from […]

Mack Brown calls it a trap game, and indeed it could be. His Tar Heels are a 21-point favorite over 4-6 Georgia Tech Saturday at 5:30 in Kenan Stadium, but while the Carolina coach prefers a blowout, he will take a one-point win since the Jackets lead the ACC in takeaways (forcing turnovers). As the […]

Even uber-positive Hubert Davis was at a loss for words. The Carolina coach wasn’t sure what to make of his top-ranked, still undefeated team’s third slow start this season. The first game against UNC-Wilmington, the Tar Heels were up by 11 points at the half and could only extend the final margin by two. They […]

Is Josh Downs the best receiver in Carolina history? No, he doesn’t hold many UNC football records because he is only in his second full-time season. As a true freshman in 2020, he played behind Dazz Newsome who is all over the record book for yards, receptions and touchdowns in four years. Downs appeared in […]

Looks like the Tar Heels may have to do it the hard way. Anyone who watched Carolina’s two basketball games so far must admit the first three halves were not exactly what we expected. The Heels may have made up for it with their 59-point, 71 percent second half against College of Charleston, but we’ll […]