With an almost 180-degree turn, I think popular Alex Cora has to go. As many of you know, I am from Boston with deep allegiance to most of its sports teams, especially the Red Sox. I went to Fenway with my dad, saw Ted Williams’ last home run when I was maybe 10 and went […]

It took a lot of guts for Joel Berry to walk away from basketball. Like most players who turn out to be college stars and get a chance in the NBA, Berry had spent a good part of his young life working to improve his game so he could get that far. Berry’s decision reminds […]

The Alliance sounds more like a separation and eventual divorce. Remember the old bowl alliance in the 1990s, when the late ACC commissioner Gene Corrigan and his sidekick Tom Mickle sketched out how it would work on a restaurant napkin? It was an agreement among the major bowl games for the purpose of matching the […]

For Hubert Davis, the more things stay the same the more they change. Carolina’s new head basketball coach has been very coy with how he is building his first team. Its foundation will be based on the same principles Davis learned as a youngster watching his Uncle Walter. And with an entire staff of former […]

The countdown to kick off in Blacksburg is under way. Mack Brown and his coaching staff know most of the 80 players who will be traveling to Virginia Tech next Thursday. The game plan for the Hokies is being implemented by Phil Longo and Jay Bateman, the coordinators who will make the next 10 days […]

Let’s call the ACC Network “egalitarian TV.” Recruiting, especially for Olympic sports, was one of the reasons the ACC Network was formed. Ever since the Big Ten Network signed on in 2007, coaches from the so-called non-revenue sports around the rest of the country felt like they were at an extreme disadvantage. The typical question […]

Jim Lampley has returned to Chapel Hill. Aren’t we lucky? Of the numerous UNC J-School graduates who have gone on to be rich and famous, Lampley’s story is within reaching distance of the top of the Bell Tower, if not perched at its height. He teaches a course in the Department of Communications called the […]

Carolina’s game plan at Virginia Tech? Find a way to win. In the great majority of the more than 30 openers Mack Brown’s college football teams have had, the Hall of Fame coach said he had no clue if his team was good enough to win. And he feels no differently about the September 3 […]

Carolina women’s soccer, the gift that keeps on giving. Anson Dorrance begins his 43rd season as head coach Thursday night at home vs. Washington, one of the three teams the Tar Heels shut out in the COVID-delayed 2020 NCAA Tournament last spring before losing to eventual  national champion Santa Clara in the semifinal, match, 3-1. […]

Trevor Bauer has had to throw his last pitch in baseball for a long time. If you read the gruesome descriptions of what the Dodgers’ pitcher did to the unnamed women in two so-called consensual encounters, the only way it will turn out is not good for Bauer. I am not arguing the legal stand-off that […]