Leaky Black is the latest face of Carolina Basketball. The soon-to-be super senior is a throwback to the days we all loved the Tar Heels like members of our own family, even if we had never met them. Leaky has been here long enough to embrace our embrace. He did it Thursday night when he […]

Can lavish facilities trump the glut of NIL money? Carolina is in the closing stages of another multimillion-dollar expansion to its football center. From advance reports, the Tar Heels will have a Disneyland type of training and conditioning addition to the Kenan Football Center that was completed just as Mack Brown left UNC for Texas […]

Have you noticed that Duke went away from the Brotherhood? One of the more interesting offseason moves in college basketball occurred at Duke, which had filled its coaching staff with former players over the last half of Mike Krzyzewski’s Hall of Fame career. Nolan Smith, a teammate of new head coach Jon Scheyer on the […]

Kerwin Walton’s transfer gives Carolina a golden opportunity. Before Walton entered the transfer portal, Hubert Davis had all 13 scholarships for the 2022-23 season allocated. And that meant a second post man next to Armando Bacot would have to come from a veteran playing out of position or an untested freshman big. While we may […]

Sam Howell’s chip just became a boulder. Speculation will go crazy over why Sam Howell fell from a prospective first-round draft pick to No. 144 – the first name called in the fifth round of the NFL’s beauty and the beast pageant — by Washington. Did Carolina’s dive from a preseason top 10 team to […]

The Carolina Hurricanes, going all the way back to the birth of their franchise in 1972 as the Hartford Whalers, have never had a better regular season than the one they finished at PNC Arena in Raleigh last night. While a Metropolitan Division championship by itself may not be enough to move the state of […]

Decades ago, the National Football League passed Major League Baseball as the most lucrative sports organization in the world. The NFL Draft, which begins tonight in Las Vegas with the first round and runs through Saturday, offers another major reminder why. Millions of Americans care, and they care a lot, even when games aren’t being […]

In college basketball, there is more than one road to the top of the mountain, more than one way to capture the national championship. Throughout the long, proud history of North Carolina basketball, though, all six of its NCAA title teams followed a similar path in at least one regard: seniors and juniors led the […]

North Carolina’s victories over Duke in early March and early April will be remembered fondly by Carolina basketball fans for many reasons. The first ruined Mike Krzyzewski’s final home game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on a night when approximately 100 former Duke players joined the Cameron Crazies for both a nationally televised game and a […]

One by one, North Carolina’s four starting players with NCAA eligibility remaining recently announced their decisions to remain with the Tar Heels for the 2022-23 season. As a result, UNC almost certainly will be talked and written about for the next six months as one of the favorites for the national championship next spring. When […]