Fascinating factoids from Yahoo’s long-form story on Sam Howell. Howell has accumulated “a couple of thousand dollars” of parking tickets by leaving his Jeep Cherokee in reserved service spots near Kenan Football Center, where he spends every hour away from classes, studying and sleeping preparing for practices and games. He has a very limited social […]

The Field of Dreams turned into a nightmare for the Yankees. It may have topped the award-winning 1989 movie starring Kevin Costner, who was there Thursday night to see a real MLB game played in the cornfields of Iowa. The stadium near the actual diamond in Dyersville, where the movie was filmed, had been refurbished […]

Travis Shaw coming to UNC will prove Mack Brown is at the summit. There is no better personification of whether Carolina Football has finally reached a level with the best programs in the country. For the 6-5, 310-pound defensive tackle, staying home is as big as it gets. Shaw supposedly is down to the Tar […]

Dennis Schroder made the worst decision in the history of free agency. Let me tell you a story about Schroder. He was traded to the Lakers for their sub-par season after they won the 2020 NBA title in the COVID bubble. And he played well on a team where LeBron James is the de facto […]

Three reasons why winning the gold again feels so good. USA Basketball and its players, coaches and staff have to feel great about overcoming the odds to win America’s fourth straight gold medal. The team was hampered by the NBA playoffs ending later this year and some COVID issues that cost them star Bradley Beal. […]

College football doesn’t have to be ALL about the money. In case you haven’t noticed, the news feeds are full of suggestions on what the ACC should do to counteract the defection of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC. Let me count 2some of the ways. Jay Bilas says merging the two leagues would help […]

The Mack Brown-Sam Howell Show is pretty darn good. If the first-practice presser featuring Carolina’s star quarterback followed by head coach is any indication, both had all the right answers with the 2021 opener in Blacksburg 28 days away. Howell said he doesn’t mind starting the highly anticipated season at dangerous Virginia Tech, where they […]

No. 1 has helped UNC become No. 1 in almost every decade. In the summer of 1951, Carolina basketball was coming off its first losing season in 10 years and did not even qualify for the old Southern Conference tournament. The 12-15 record was duplicated the next season, and that was the end for coach […]

Will the horror of 2004 in Athens return for USA Basketball? There are so many comparisons between the struggles of our current men’s basketball team in Tokyo and what happened the last time we did not win a Gold Medal in the Olympics. That was in 2004 when Larry Brown was the coach and got […]

What does Coby White’s injury mean for his NBA career? Chicago and all Bulls fans were aghast when their star combo guard was injured mysteriously in “basketball activities away from the team.” Why not say what Coby was doing and where when tearing his left shoulder labrum. He was reportedly in Chapel Hill that week […]