What is behind the staying power of Michael Jordan? It has been 19 years since the Carolina legend has played a professional basketball game, flaming out of the NBA in controversy after winning six world championships with the Chicago Bulls. It is not like Jordan has continued to be the best at anything – except, […]

Has the grant of rights spelled doom for the ACC? UNC’s John Swofford was considered a great commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference. He followed Gene Corrigan’s brilliant move of bringing Florida State into the conference to bolster its football reputation, and the Seminoles did so by dominating the league and winning national championships that […]

Can athletes go unvaccinated and still be team players? This question has raged since COVID hit this country and eventually everyone had the choice to be vaccinated or not. For individuals, it is their absolute right to choose, although some organizations require it for them to keep working. The various professional players associations seem to […]

Do we owe Worthy, Ford and Cunningham any old NIL money? Armando Bacot is in the news a lot lately, and in the off-season so little of it is for playing basketball. The Tar Heels’ rising senior center-forward decided to stay in school and get his degree, and he also beat the mock draft boards, […]

Carolina has another national Hall of Famer of note. Curry Kirkpatrick, UNC Class of 1965, was inducted into the National Sports Media Hall of Fame Monday at the same ceremony in which Hubert Davis received the Clarence “Big House” Gaines Coach of the Year award. While Hubert has gotten plenty of props since turning the […]

Mack Brown’s commitment to HBCU football is a family thing. When Brown met his wife Sally on a blind date back in 1992, he found a young woman who knew next to nothing about the game he was coaching at UNC. But the former Sally Jesse knew something about a problem he was having with […]

The Dukies were crying all the way to and through the NBA Draft. Reports continue to filter in that Duke is still hung over from losing its last two games of the Mike Krzyzewski era against arch-rival Carolina. Having four players drafted in the first round and five in the first 42 selected has left […]

Hidden Dynasty – the story doesn’t get older, it gets better. Ross Greenburg, the decorated documentarian, came through with what may be his best work ever in chronicling the history of Carolina women’s soccer under Anson Dorrance on the ACC Network special. Those who live on some distant planet may have enjoyed learning how Dorrance […]

Do you realize that six teams from each league make the MLB playoffs this season? Before the Major League Baseball playoffs expanded with divisions and wildcards, there were 10 teams in the American League and 10 in the National League. Only the pennant winners in each league advanced to the World Series. That is two […]

It would not be an understatement to call Lennie Rosenbluth the Father of Carolina Basketball. If not for a momentous blunder by NC State’s hall of fame coach Everett Case, Rosie might have ended up in Wolfpack red and UNC’s magical season of 1957 would have never occurred or, worse, happened instead in Raleigh. Rosenbluth, […]