Carolina almost needed a wing and a prayer to beat BC. After turning to the Bible to calm and encourage his team coming off a bad two-game losing streak, Hubert Davis might have pulled out a verse about perseverance as his Tar Heels survived a different Boston College team than they had seen almost a […]

All the reasons why last weekend may have been the greatest in NFL history. I hope you were among the sports fans who at least looked in on the divisional weekend of the pro football playoffs. For me, I was lucky to be clear-headed without a dog in the fight and plenty of time on […]

Home Sweet Home got the Heels over the hump. It was more gritty than pretty, but Carolina got the win it desperately needed to put its season back on track. Coming off a week of two road losses by 50 points, the Heels righted their ship by staying unbeaten at home (10-0) with a 10-point […]

Blowouts are rare but they have happened before to Carolina. There is a famous story from the annals of UNC basketball, this one 45 years ago after the fourth-ranked Tar Heels suffered their third defeat in four games and dropped to No. 13 in the polls. Following a 93-73 loss at Clemson not even that […]

How big is the game at Wake Forest? Relatively speaking, really big. Actually, this crucial game has come out of nowhere to remind me of the good old days of Carolina’s once-bitter rivalry with the Demon Deacons. You remember when their coaches were Carl Tacy and Dave Odom and Skip Prosser. And among their players […]

The eight best teams are left in the NFL playoffs. It doesn’t always happen this way, where the divisional rounds feature only teams that deserve to be there based on their play over the regular season. And what great games they are. The Cincinnati Bengals, those lovable losers from Ohio, eliminated the best of the […]

Ten days of hell just became two weeks, maybe more. It’s one thing to lose at Miami, which entered the game in first place in the ACC, but it’s another to come out of it like you were 30 points worse than the underrated and athletic Hurricanes. Despite a center with seven straight double-doubles (who […]

The Tar Heels still have to prove they can do it on the road. After blowing out Georgia Tech for the second time this season, UNC faces two games – both away from home – that could go a long way toward making or breaking the season. The ACC schedule so far has clearly been […]

Has Mack Brown set up the future of Carolina football? When Brown was tabbed to return as the Tar Heels’ head coach before the 2019 season, alumni and fan bases were ecstatic, as the program had fallen from euphoria in 2015 to disappointment in ‘16 to anger in ‘17 and apathy in 2018 before Larry […]

Let’s compare the retirement tours of Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams. One Hall of Fame coach is in his last of 42 seasons at Duke. His HOF rival, and supposedly good friend, has already stepped away from the game after 33 years as a head coach at Kansas and UNC. Coach K’s decision to go […]