R.J. Davis is the leader no one is talking about. He came in with Caleb Love as the “other” guard in the Class of 2020, and he started one-third of the games his freshman year and made about one-third of his shots. He also made about as many turnovers as assists. Roy Williams retired, and […]

You want the good news or the bad news about Armando Bacot? The good news is that one of the most engaging, and rapidly becoming one of the best, players to ever don a Carolina uniform can actually play a super senior season in 2023-24. Yes, he’s one of those COVID kids who, because he […]

Pete Nance is the perfect fit for Carolina in so many ways. The grad transfer met the media for the first time Monday and, as Stuart Scott used to say, was as cool as the other side of the pillow. Nance gave the NBA a look-see and got word he wasn’t quite ready, so he […]

It is fun rooting against the Yankees again. Remember those seasons when your team wasn’t good enough to win a championship and the arch rival was favored to do so? My first recollection of that was just out of college when NC State had David Thompson and Tom Burleson on a team that just about […]

Editor’s note: This Sports Notebook was written before the news of G.G. Jackson’s decommitment from UNC was made official Thursday night.   Looks like G.G. Jackson might take the money and run. Social media has been chirping the last week or so over speculation that Jackson may decommit from Carolina and do something else. Turns […]

The big names are at the Old Course, but their games are not. Finally, the The Open no longer has the adjective “British” in front of it because arrogant Americans concede that the game was invented somewhere else like Europe, where the 150th “Open” begins today at perhaps the most famous 18 holes on the […]

What a fairy-tale golf year for Chapel Hill’s Ben Griffin. The former East Chapel Hill High School star and All-ACC and All-American at Carolina seemed destined for the pro tour. He won two high school state championships, chipping in on the last hole to win his first as a freshman. He earned a scholarship to […]

I say let’s keep the NCAA in one form or another. There has been so much speculation about what will happen next with conference realignment, you can read almost anything you want to hear or don’t want to hear. For example, will the ACC survive if Clemson and Florida State bolt for the SEC? Will […]

So what kind of a school is UNC anyway? During his heyday as a Hall of Fame, national championship coach, Dean Smith liked to take the attention away from his team by crediting other Carolina coaches who had also won NCAA titles. “We’re a women’s soccer school,” he said of Anson Dorrance’s program when it […]

Hubert Davis is not only smart, he has savvy. I am beginning to think that Carolina’s current basketball coach is a combination of his Hall of Fame predecessors Dean Smith and Roy Williams. Spiritual and coy who figures things out like Smith. Emotional with his kids in public, tough in private like Ol’ Roy. One […]