Hubert Davis seemed to know something we didn’t. Dean Smith used to have an old recruiting axiom — schedule the last visit of a coveted prospect in his home or on your campus. One of the few times that failed was in 1990, when Grant Hill committed to Duke the weekend before Smith and his […]

When Notre Dame takes on Texas tonight on the first day of the College World Series, the Fighting Irish will be the only participant from the Atlantic Coast Conference in an eight-team field that also includes four current members of the Southeastern Conference, two soon-to-be members of the SEC, and Stanford of the Pac-12. What […]

Three members of the NCAA enforcement staff visited the University of Miami last week, in what is believed to be the organization’s first inquiry into whether some of the name-image-likeness agreements between college athletes and various third parties are being done in violation of NCAA rules. For several reasons, the Miami case is a good […]

Generally speaking, American sports fans watch the biggest games in the most popular professional sports in much larger numbers than they watch the biggest games in the college versions of those sports. For example, in the National Football League, the Super Bowl often attracts an average American television audience of more than 100 million viewers. […]

Whether the Boston Celtics or the Golden State Warriors capture the NBA championship later this week, the state of North Carolina will be represented on the title team for the 14th year in a row. Last season, for example, the world champion Milwaukee Bucks had three players with North Carolina ties: former UNC forward Justin […]

While North Carolina’s sweep at the hands of Arkansas at the NCAA Baseball Super Regional in Chapel Hill sent a lot of Tar Heels home disappointed Sunday night, there may have been an even greater sense of devastation about 100 miles away in Greenville, N.C. The East Carolina baseball program has, for decades, been on […]

Carolina has had an even more glorious baseball past than you would think in its more than 150 years playing. Granted, the Mike Fox era with so many trips (7) to the College World Series and coming home with no titles is a little bit of a black mark. But if you read Jody Jones’ […]

Duke is staying ahead of the field again. While Duke may think it is always the smartest entity in any room, the private school with all the money and no state oversight keeps proving it. The latest innovation by the Blue Devils was to create the general manager’s position for men’s basketball and fill it […]

We get yet another home weekend of Carolina Baseball. Boshamer Stadium has been a wonderful venue for 50 years, nestled into the UNC sports complex between the football practice fields and the newer Karen Shelton Stadium for her field hockey perennials. Sure, it’s a hard place to reach by car, try Ridge Road from the […]

Vance Honeycutt is one reason college baseball can be so special. If Honeycutt, the Diamond Heels’ super freshman, played basketball the way he plays baseball, he’d be one and done for sure. But baseball has a rule that if a high school player accepts a college scholarship, he cannot enter the MLB Draft until after […]