The scoreboard game sparked the Mack-Spurrier friendship. As long as Mack Brown keeps beating Duke, the infamous scoreboard game will be brought up. It was again this week, as the Carolina coach’s pre-game interview ended with stories about him and the Head Ball Coach. The Blue Devils will be trying to snap a three-game losing […]

Carolina has an older, but not a deeper, offensive line. Three graduate students, two seniors and a junior protect that precious commodity named Drake Maye, who has been sacked 14 times this season, including five at Miami last week, but thrown only three interceptions. One of them, right tackle Spencer Rolland, transferred from Harvard with […]

The Astros ended the road team madness in the Major League Baseball playoffs. In 2021, the record of visiting teams in the postseason was a dismal 13-24, beginning with the Yankees’ ouster in the wild card game at Fenway Park in Boston, all the way through the Astros’ anti-climactic 7-0 loss to the Braves in […]

David Tepper proved that money doesn’t make you smart. The billionaire owner of the Carolina Panthers made his money in the financial world. But it took him until the very end of his press conference after firing coach Matt Rhule to admit that he has a lot to learn about pro football. Tepper had reason […]

Mack Brown has Miami’s number. Does he still have Duke’s? The Carolina coach was hoarse and sweating after the emotional win at Miami Saturday, which was his fourth straight and gives him a 4-0 career record against the Hurricanes. That wouldn’t be the case had The U been in the ACC in the […]

Hubert Davis is a Carolina man and his own man. Davis was tabbed to succeed Roy Williams because of his basketball background, which began in earnest as an underrated player for Dean Smith and, after he proved himself on the college court, as a 12-year veteran in the NBA. He topped that off with nine […]

Why Aaron Judge may stay in New York, but with the Mets. As we head into a historic Major League Baseball playoff, with six teams from each league contending for World Series spots, the Yankees remain the biggest story of them all. And it’s all about their biggest name and body and what he’ll do […]

Miami’s Tyler Van Dyke: Cinderella or pumpkin? When the Hurricanes played in Chapel Hill last year about this time of the month, Tyler Van Dyke was their starting quarterback only because fellow freshman Jake Garcia and veteran transfer D’Eriq King were both out for the season with injuries. Van Dyke was starting his fourth game […]

Phil Longo has enlisted Drake Maye’s parents to help him. We all have our hearts in our mouths when UNC’s freshman sensation goes airborne at the end of a run. You can imagine what Aimee and Mark Maye do when their youngest of four sons leaves the ground. Carolina’s offensive coordinator knows how he feels. […]

Is Sam Howell’s number ready to be called? Judging from what is happening in the NFL these days, the Washington Commanders may be getting ready to give their rookie quarterback a chance, too. Whether it’s injuries to the Cowboys’ Dak Prescott and the Patriots’ Mac Jones, or inconsistent play from the Steelers’ Mitch Trubisky, backup […]