Disappointed, yes, but the Tar Heels’ biggest games are still ahead. Let’s go back to 2017 and 2018, when Carolina was in the midst of three-year losing streaks to Duke and State and had also lost three in a row to ECU by 75 points! Larry Fedora had gone from great coach to get out. […]

The Ryder Cup was amazing, but the rest of my weekend sucked. My teams all lost from Friday through Sunday nights. The Red Sox were blown out in the first game of their crucial series with the Yankees and then blew the Saturday afternoon game by walking the bases loaded and giving up a grand […]

Carolina is dividing the football season into 3 – maybe 4 – parts. Before the opener, Mack Brown said the first three games were considered the first part of the 2021 season. He warned that if his Tar Heels don’t win all three, chances are people will stop talking about them. Well, they lost the […]

The Carolina freshmen are hoping to make that big jump. You’ve read plenty of times (some here) about Dean Smith’s old adage that the biggest improvement between seasons for talented recruits comes from freshman to sophomore year. A lot of 4-and-5-stars have been coddled throughout high school and arrive with big heads and expectations. Some […]

How is Tom Brady better at 44 than he was at 24 or even 30? The Boston Globe is almost obsessed with the debate between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick. Obviously, Brady is ahead, having won his seventh Super Bowl with his new team, Tampa Bay, last season while the Patriots missed the playoffs completely […]

Mack Brown was 1-1-1 in his first three games against Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels go to Atlanta this weekend, and all the preseason hype they generated caused Georgia Tech to move the game from cozy-and-crowded Grant Field to massive Mercedes Benz Stadium, home of the NFL Falcons and many big-time college and pro events. […]

Is the ACC slipping back into its old mediocrity? This had to be one of the ugliest days in the recent history of ACC football. When all you have to brag about is Carolina’s defenseless 59-39 victory over previously unbeaten Virginia, the conference is looking more like a basketball league after only four weeks. Let’s get […]

As he joins the Tar Heels, Brady Manek will have someone from afar watching him closely. The fifth-year graduate transfer met the local media for the first time this week, and the 6-9 shooter said some interesting things about why he left Oklahoma to play his final college season in Chapel Hill. One, he is […]

Clearly, Carolina has to run the ball better to beat Virginia. It is a subtle difference but a significant one for the Tar Heels moving forward. Their rushing threat with future pros Michael Carter and Javonte Williams in 2020 changed defenses enough to make Sam Howell even more dangerous throwing the ball. It’s early, but […]

Mack Brown’s last win over Virginia was a day and Knight to remember. The last time Carolina beat the Cavaliers with Brown as football coach was on September 27, 1997, the 10th and final season of his first stint in Chapel Hill. And the game had so much to recollect. Coming off the bitterly disappointing […]