The pressure cooker is on for both teams Friday night. The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday because it is the official start of the Christmas shopping season. But, come midnight, it will be particularly dark for the loser of the State-Carolina game. By the numbers and on paper, the Wolfpack is justifiably a […]

Is the Hubert Davis honeymoon period officially over? It is not that underdog Carolina lost twice at the Hall of Fame tournament in Connecticut, but HOW the Tar Heels lost, especially the drubbing by a Tennessee team that had played its worst game of the season the day before. Hubert called it a lack of […]

It will be goodbye and thanks, then hello to a new duo. Despite losing some ground in the latest projected NFL draft boards, Sam Howell has apparently made up his mind to turn pro. And we may have seen the last of him at Kenan Stadium, where the Tar Heels celebrate Senior Day Saturday against […]

The Tar Heels went back to the future in Charleston. It sure seemed like college basketball has fully returned with 3-0 Carolina’s pulsating win over the College of Charleston Tuesday night. Packed house in small-but-raucous TD Arena, where they have stormed the floor before after beating the ballyhooed blueblood from up north. First true road […]

Penalties are killing the Tar Heels football program. But as Art Chansky writes, it’s not all their fault.

Can College of Charleston pull another shocker? I was a little concerned when I saw the comparative stats between Carolina and the College of Charleston, which the Tar Heels take on tonight at 8:30 in a true road game at the cozy TD Arena. The Cougars are 3-0, they are averaging more than 90 points […]

Should Sam Howell be rethinking his plan to turn pro? First of all, preseason projections should be taken with a grain of salt, whether they be national rankings or mock draft boards. We know teams are rated in the preseason based on what they did the prior season and which players are coming back, pretty […]

The Tar Heels aren’t snakebit. They just aren’t quite good enough. Mother Nature didn’t stop Carolina’s dramatic comeback at Pitt Thursday night. It certainly played a part, but Mack Brown’s team makes too many Earthly mistakes to be a big winner in 2021. While the Heels (5-5) can still finish 6-6 or 7-5 and go […]

Wait a minute, why is tonight’s game AT Pitt? I know the answer to that question: the ACC tore up its original football schedule last year and revised it where each team played 10 conference games and one against an outside opponent. For the COVID season, there were no divisions; the first two teams in […]

Where were the fans for Hubert Davis’ debut? A disappointing crowd in a less than half-full Smith Center welcomed another era of UNC basketball, as a new head coach won his official first game leading the Tar Heels against Loyola of Maryland. It didn’t seem to faze Hubert until the final comment of his postgame […]