Stephanie Pace deserves some kind of MVP award. When Pace’s documentary on the 1957 Tar Heels came out in January, reviews said she had been working on the film for seven years. It seemed more like 17, based on all the talks we had about where the project was going and how she planned to […]

I guess winning is more important than getting vaxxed. Former Wake Forest and ACC baseball star Whit Merrifield has refused to get vaccinated all season while playing for the lowly Kansas City Royals. He apparently wanted to get into the postseason so badly that he reversed his commitment to family and whatever reasons he refused […]

Mack Brown isn’t taking any chances with his two quarterbacks. I love it when Brown says of his two neck-and-neck leaders, sophomore Jacolby Criswell and redshirt freshman Drake Maye, “You’re going to tell us who should start. We’re not going to tell you, you’ll determine that.” UNC and offensive coordinator Phil Longo are acting like […]

Bill Russell, who died at 88 on Sunday, was a true giant with no jump shot. I remember as a kid rooting for the Celtics and Bill Russell, who taught a lot of people about the value of defense in basketball. I think that’s why Dean Smith’s teams resonated with me. When defensive specialist Russell […]

The Southeastern Conference is going to do what it wants. So let it. It is clear that the football-crazy SEC is in the driver’s seat over conference realignment. They already have the highest annual distribution among member schools because of the hundreds of millions, soon to be billions, of dollars that ESPN and Disney are […]

UNC heads for training camp with another 3-game schedule to start. Remember how long it took the football Tar Heels to pop the balloon filled with mostly (hot) air before the 2021 season? Mack Brown tried to tamp down all the hysteria by saying, “We are looking at the first three games, and if we […]

This is only a sports story because Eli Evans was a HUGE Tar Heel fan. Evans, a dear friend, died peacefully in New York on Monday. Very old grads know him from being UNC’s student body president in 1958 and a distinguished alum. I know him from belonging to the same fraternity and collaborating with […]

Why is the Carolina brand is so appealing in college realignment? While he is against almost everything going on in college football and conference realignment these days, Mack Brown says he is not worried about what happens to UNC when all the dust settles. We know Brown is against eliminating divisions in ACC football because […]

The ACC is spoiling Mack Brown’s plan to be conference champion. When Brown returned to Carolina for his second stint, he was asked about the Tar Heels’ realistic chances to win their first ACC championship since 1980. He smiled and said, with divisional play, he liked their chances better than when he was here from […]

A few things to remember as summer turns into fall. The energy and excitement around Chapel Hill is reminiscent of the days when that feeling was an off-season rite. Football was a prelude, hoping those Tar Heels could have a great start and not turn the fans’ attention in October to the roundball sport. But […]