Has the NBA Playoff magic gone away? The first two rounds of the postseason made it look like we were headed for the best Final Four in NBA history. Close games, dramatic comebacks, surprises and the superstars coming out, the compelling matchups seemed like they would escalate into the conference and NBA Finals. The Celtics […]

Ademola Okulaja is remembered most as a great teammate. Tragically, another former UNC basketball player has died unexpectedly. The 6-9 Okulaja, who started for four seasons during the Dean Smith-Bill Guthridge eras, passed away at age 46 from a recurring cancer that he first had 14 years ago. In the freshman class that had future […]

Rich Yonakor didn’t make it to his last UNC-Duke game. Not sure how I missed it, but just heard that Yonakor – the infamous “Chickie” of the 1977-80 Tar Heels – passed away on March 3, two days before Carolina turned its season around with the dramatic 94-81 upset at Cameron Indoor. Man, time flies. […]

UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham has a new contract and raise. Is Hubert Davis next? A couple of days after the Tar Heels returned from the Final Four, Cunningham acknowledged that “we’ve got to do something” when asked about Hubert’s income being near the bottom of the 15-school ACC barrel. Davis made $525,000 in merit […]

Surely, there’s a team out there that will give the UNC women’s lacrosse team a game. I was late getting to the start of Sunday’s NCAA tournament second-rounder between top-seeded Carolina and Virginia, which turned out to mean it’s a bad regional. Driving to campus, for a moment, I thought I had the wrong day […]

The NBA playoffs are the greatest floor show on Earth. This season shows why so many college players are determined to get to the NBA regardless of what else they do on the way. There is incredible play by the best basketball players in the world, dramatic comebacks and controversy from the officials’ whistles to […]

How is the NCAA going to enforce new NIL guidelines? To use a term from modern communications, who is Zooming who here? The NCAA, which washed its hands of regulating and watch-dogging the Name-Image-Likeness deals on each campus, is now taking charge again. I don’t think so. The NCAA will be knee-capped by all the […]

The Hurricanes need to take care of business in Game 6. Have you ever seen a postseason in pro basketball or hockey so dominated by the home teams? Most teams are defending their home court or ice vigorously. Only the Celtics-Bucks NBA series has seen two games won on the road. The Canes dispatched the […]

Carolina football finished No. 11 in the recruiting class of 2022. With only 17 players signed, Mack Brown and his staff still finished very close to a top ten dominated by the so-called ‘football schools’ from the Power 5 conferences. UNC followed Texas A&M, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Texas, Penn State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Michigan […]

Six in a row for the UNC women’s lacrosse team. Since Congress passed Title IX in 1972, colleges have done more than balance their athletic teams with the gender ratio on campuses across the country. Most have taken women’s sports very seriously, and Carolina is at the top of that list. The national juggernauts over […]