It is hard to know who’s going to play due to the latest COVID variant. Three bowl games with ACC teams were canceled, and three basketball games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed. Virginia Tech’s proximity to omicron infections scrubbed its trip to Chapel Hill, Duke cannot go to Clemson and FSU won’t be traveling […]

Mack Brown loves his bowl match-up but doesn’t know the half of it. Let’s talk about the North Carolina-South Carolina rivalry that Brown came to in the late 1980s; he should have seen it in the ‘60s and ‘70s in both football and basketball, when the schools were ACC arch enemies. “It’s a border rivalry […]

The ACC schedule is good news, bad news for Carolina. During the Tar Heels’ ragged win over App State, the ACC Network announcers brought up some premature projections of their chances in the 2022 NCAA tournament. A little too early to talk about that for a 9-3 team, but they did. They unveiled a current […]

Don’t let the unvaccinated bring us all down. So far, we don’t know how bad the Omicron variant of COVID is. Yes, it is spreading to more than 70 percent of the new infections. No, we don’t know how dangerous it is as a virus. But we do know one thing. The unvaccinated people are […]

Don’t blame Nike for the black uniforms. It’s part of the deal. Among the reactions to Carolina’s dismal showing against Kentucky in Las Vegas was dislike for the black unis with the light blue names and numerals. Although Roy Williams pledged to never don them again if his team lost, the once-a-year outfit is all […]

As the sun came up, three options were on the table for the Tar Heels. Don’t you just love the way our country gets on the same page in times of crisis? Any wonder why we’re so divided over everything, thanks to a media ecosystem that is basically an echo chamber. First the coronavirus was […]

There has got to be something else about North Carolina football. Mack Brown has been back for three seasons and has improved recruiting classes every year. Obviously, he got started late after taking over in December of 2018, but had time to flip Sam Howell from FSU. Brown and his coaching staff announced the signing […]

The Tar Heels didn’t let a skilled Furman team get their goat. In years past, this was a game that Carolina could have lost after blowing out to an early lead and then settling for a halftime tie, giving up ten 3-pointers to the hot-shooting Paladins. Clearly, the Heels’ key to taking back the game […]

Some points of interest and irritation from Mack Brown. South Carolina coach Shane Beamer is the son of retired Virginia Tech legend Frank Beamer, a close friend of the UNC head coach for years. “It’s old home week,” Brown said of the Border Battle at the Mayo Bowl on December 30 in Charlotte. Frank Beamer […]

Are Elon and Furman enough to get ready for UCLA? Let’s excuse the lousy exhibition Saturday night in the 17-point win over Elon because the Tar Heels had a week of exams and not the usual practice time. So, they again followed up a hot second half against Georgia Tech with a cold first half […]