College football’s weekend of memorable moments. We’ve seen and heard enough about Urban Meyer’s stupid bar behavior and his wife quitting Twitter due to all the mean stuff she was reading. Yes, Meyer’s career and personal life are crumbling. Then there is Coach Ed Orgeron, two years removed from a national championship, about to be […]

It’s not that the Tar Heels are losing games, but how they’re doing it. One thing that I have always loved about most Carolina fans is that they are rational about winning and losing. Sure, they want to win and are disappointed when they lose, sometimes bitterly depending on which school beats them. But they […]

More than a trap game, this is a MUST game. Florida State and Carolina find themselves in a unique juxtaposition for different reasons heading into Saturday’s game in expected inclement weather. Following the Willie Taggart debacle, FSU is no more patient with football coaches after long regimes of Bobby Bowden and Jimbo Fisher. Mike Norvell was […]

History, if nothing else, is on the Seminoles side Saturday. The numbers are ugly, dating back to their first meeting in the 1983 Peach Bowl on a freezing afternoon at Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, when Florida State was just getting started under Coach Bobby Bowden. Dick Crum was the Carolina coach and his Tar […]

The oldest rivalries are seeing some new faces. I saw a tweet from ESPN on Tuesday that promoted the Yankees Red Sox game last night as “a New Chapter” between the two teams. It got me thinking about how we inherit new generations of our favorite rivalries. My family moved to Chapel Hill in 1993 […]

How do we normalize something that is worthy of history books? I recently shared the story of Brooklyn Harker, a Junior at Chapel Hill High who plays starting Free Safety on the Varsity Football team. As I’ve watched her resume grow each Friday night since, I’m awestruck by her confidence and ability to stay focused […]

The fair and unfair last days of Major League Baseball. The regular season went down to the last weekend, with both leagues having games that mattered until the 27th out of each. Since the wildcard was expanded to two teams from both the American & National Leagues, fans have been thirsting for two-way, three-way and […]

For Duke, this is the wrong time to play Carolina. Promise. The Tar Heels playing at home as an 18-point favorite, in most years, might be a trap game. But, by now we know, this isn’t most years. Coming off a 23-point embarrassment at Georgia Tech – which included the Yellow Jackets scoring 27 straight […]

Carolina held its first basketball practice much earlier than Tuesday. October 15 used to be a sacred date in college basketball, the first day of practice. On whatever day the 15th fell, coaches and players could all be together on the court for the first time since the previous season. Maryland coach Lefty Driesell had […]

Dabo Swinney took the criticism, and he deserves it. I was at a sports bar Tuesday night to watch a baseball game, and the N.C. State upset of Clemson was on the screen right beside it. Baseball is slow, so between pitches I watched most of the replay. Mainly, I wanted to see if my […]