Tiger Woods may indeed be a cat with nine lives. Not dishonesty, infidelity or irresponsibility can keep our most popular golfer from losing any of his enormous appeal… about 17 months after a car accident, in which he was speeding and driving recklessly, and was charged for neither. Despite saying his doctors told him they […]

This just in: Hubert Davis is far from the 13th best coach in the ACC. One of my favorite things about Hubert is when he says that coaching basketball at the University of North Carolina is missionary work, an act of service. And he really believes that. But none of it is volunteer work, which […]

Carolina basketball fans to any degree know of the day after. If you’re old enough to drink, you’ve had at least three of them. There was the euphoria of 2005, 2009 and 2017, when no matter how bad things were in the world, at school or in your job the day after felt perfect. You […]

The Final Four experience is all about experience. What Kansas proved with its dramatic win over Carolina is that experience counts in college basketball. Despite all the hype and hoopla of one-and-dones, the Jayhawks and Tar Heels played for the national championship without a freshman on the court. Kansas won because it was older and […]

Will Carolina own Bourbon Street for the third time? Some afterthoughts on the biggest Carolina-Duke game of all time in which the winner had every right to declare it the signature game of the storied rivalry. Whatever happened in Durham when assistant coaches Chris Carrawell and Nolan Smith blew off the post-game handshake with Hubert […]

The famous Superdome picture is now 29 years old. Very early in his first season as Carolina’s new head coach, Hubert Davis told a small group of UNC athletic sponsors that his staff had placed a picture of the Superdome in each player’s locker before the first day of practice. The picture represented the long-term […]

How the game is called Saturday night could be the difference. Let’s begin with the premise that Duke has more talent and a slightly deeper roster, but Carolina has become the better TEAM over the last six weeks when the Blue Devils were struggling. Both teams reached the Final Four by playing good basketball, Duke […]

Is Carolina good enough to beat Duke for a second time? Hubert Davis answered some questions Tuesday about the maturation of his basketball team over the last six weeks of the season. Why, exactly, are the Tar Heels playing so much better since the surprising home loss to Pitt, winning 10 of the last 11? […]

Consider Hubert Davis the most successful first-year coach at UNC. The Tar Heels’ next-to-incredible run to the Final Four in Hubert’s first season in charge ranks as the greatest achievement of any Carolina basketball – or perhaps other – rookie coach. As soon as Davis’ Heels finished off Saint Peter’s to complete the 2022 field […]

It was a lot easier to watch than most regional finals. Maybe we should have expected a relaxing evening when oddsmakers installed the Tar Heels 8.5-point favorites and almost all the talking heads were picking them to win. But not until the score was 24-7 did we realize they were right and this would be […]