Two second-year head coaches are among the top 25 rated. They are younger than most of the others recognized in the CBS Sports preseason college basketball head coach ratings, but Hubert Davis and Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd are getting extra credit for their pedigree. Davis erased much of the doubt that followed ascending to Carolina’s head […]

Sam Hartman will try to take the mantle away from Drake Maye. The Tar Heels’ headliner at Wake Forest Saturday night in Winston-Salem has a lot of subplots, from team success to individual honors. The Demon Deacons try to stop a late-season swoon that has become all too familiar to their fans in recent years. […]

For a game with no flow, opening night was still live action. What a wonderfully strange start to the season for the top-ranked team in the nation. The head coach, who loves the excitement around his second team, said he was moved by the pre-game buzz that included chants of “Huuuubert” when he came out […]

Suddenly, Jeff Saturday is exactly where he’s supposed to be. The former Tar Heel football center will be the first to admit he had a fairy-tale career, always too small to become a two-time All-ACC center on Mack Brown’s last two teams of his first tour here. And then working as an electrical-supply salesman when […]

As the new season starts, let’s follow the team and not the narrative. The Tar Heels were last ranked No. 1 before the first game back in 2015, seven years ago. That team did advance to the Final Four behind Marcus Paige and Brice Johnson before losing the heartbreaker on a buzzer-beater by Villanova in […]

Two losses caused by players going the wrong way cost Carolina dearly. Mack Brown takes a team to Virginia Saturday for the second time since he has been back in Chapel Hill. And like before his first return to Charlottesville, Brown was asked about the 1996 game when the Tar Heels blew a 17-3 lead […]

The Astros are at it again, throwing in a no-hitter to boot. Despite the wild card Phillies becoming America’s darlings by wiping out the Cardinals, Braves and Padres in the playoffs, Houston had the best record in the American League for many reasons. The Astros’ pitching is the best kept secret in baseball and their […]

Here’s why what took place at Michigan could never happen here. Yes, at the end of Larry Fedora’s last game in 2018, a brawl erupted in the end zone after another frustrating loss in overtime against NC State. And several players on both teams received suspensions that were served the following season. By comparison, what […]

Forty-one years later, how close are the two SI covers? The one thing about the preseason college basketball edition of Sports Illustrated produced by the official UNC Twitter site compared to the true 1982 cover is that the price is the same — $1.50. Do they both really have the same value? Is this clever […]

Pitt fans are out of control over their football coach. Despite their team winning the ACC championship last year and winning the Coastal Division before that in 2018, Pitt alumni and fans are slightly berserk over the Panthers’ 4-4 start to this season. First of all, a team not named Clemson never wins its ACC […]