What has happened to student youth in America? Political divide notwithstanding, some college kids seem to be more stupid these days. Where did they get the license to be so dumb? At the University of Utah’s home game last Saturday against Southern Utah, two coeds decided to cover their upper bodies with paint and walk […]

Carolina’s offense, not Notre Dame’s, will be the key. The annals of college athletics are filled with stories about underdog teams pulling together for big victories after losing a key player. Notre Dame will try to add one of those to its tradition as well as win a football game. Depending on what happens in […]

Carolina’s basketball schedule is front-loaded, to say the least. Some people say that, in college hoops, it is not how you start but how you finish. That is especially true if you are expected to make a run in the NCAA Tournament. But to make that run, teams must play well enough early to keep […]

Roy Williams recruited Jacob Stallings away from his father. The former Carolina catcher, who recently set the Major League Baseball record for 224 consecutive games without a passed ball, made a decision back in 2007 that had pitted UNC versus the school where his dad, Kevin Stallings, was coaching basketball. And it wasn’t an easy […]

If NIL is the great separator, the transfer portal is the great equalizer. College athletics has been very confusing the last few years, thanks to the implementation of Name-Image-Likeness allowing certain amateur athletes to be paid like pros. That only applies to a small percentage of elite jocks who make the big bucks from their […]

George Karl is ready for his day as UNC’s 12th Hall of Famer. Karl will be inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame Saturday night in Springfield, presented by other Tar Heel legends Bobby Jones and Roy Williams, and it will be for his NBA coaching career with six teams that yielded 1,997 regular-season and […]

Is Jon Scheyer Coach K’s successor or his own man? The royal straight flush the new Duke basketball coach continues to run raises a number of questions. Does Scheyer landing 6-foot-8 forward TJ Power as his next 5-star in the class of 2023 show that he has Mike Krzyzewski’s recruiting chops or more about the […]

Yep, it sure looks like Devin Leary is ACC Player of the Year. I shook my head after the 2022 preseason All-ACC team came out with N.C. State’s Leary tabbed as the conference player of the year. After the first week, he is among the worst QBs in the league. Sure, he was the ACC’s […]

Now that the craziness of that game is over, there are legit questions. Why was Mack Brown dancing with his players after they escaped App State scoring a record 40 points in the fourth quarter? Did any defensive players dance, too, or get sent to take cold showers for that exhibition? Was beating a mid-major […]

There’s a running joke that App State fans moonlight in Carolina blue when no one is looking. But for yours truly, that’s rather close to the truth. My family moved to Boone back in 2000. Though I was born in New England, I still consider Boone my hometown and likely always will. I grew up […]