Carolina football needs time to find its sea legs. There have been stories over the past few months that run the gamut, which is typical with the demands of traditional media competition, social media and no real stuff to report in real time. If you like recruiting news and speculation, this is your time. Stories […]

Is Cameron Johnson worth one-tenth of Chris Paul? The Phoenix Suns released the salaries of their top players, making me wonder whether the 36-year-old Paul is really 10 times better than Carolina’s Cameron Johnson. Paul, the 16-year veteran and former Wake Forest All-American, makes more than $41 million this season and, if he accepts the […]

The NBA Finals is thrilling but it’s bad basketball. I am glad Dean Smith isn’t watching the best-of-seven series to win the NBA championship. It’s the kind of basketball that he would hate, two stars on each side hogging the ball while the home team won because the opponent made critical mistakes down the stretch. […]

At 80, Larry Brown is back in the game of his life. It was just about 21 years ago that Roy Williams turned down Carolina to remain at Kansas, and Brown might have become the head coach at his alma mater, where he played on Dean Smith’s first two teams and began his coaching career […]

Baseball has become America’s game once again. The Major League All-Star Game is tonight and will have to go some to equal the Home Run Derby Monday night. It was not only a spectacle of home run missiles in high altitude of Colorado, it represented the country as it is today more than ever. Dubbed […]

What do coaches really think of the NIL mess? Although after 20 years being paid by the University of Texas, Mack Brown probably doesn’t need his current $3.75 million income. But he deserves every penny of it before a down has been played in the new season. Summing up the incredibly complicated and somewhat dangerous […]

Why it was logical for Dawson Garcia to come to Carolina. The 6-11 rising sophomore, who torched the Tar Heels during Marquette’s regular-season upset in the Smith Center last February, is a transfer who plays immediately with a lot of options. No. 1, Garcia raises Hubert Davis’ recruiting chops even more and makes Hubert’s first […]

UNC Trustee Chuck Duckett is far from a racist. The only reason this qualifies as a sports story is Duckett, the trustee who has been under fire lately, was a manager on the 1982 NCAA champion basketball team. A very fond memory for him. Duckett is completing eight years on the UNC Board of Trustees, […]

With the NIL disaster looming, only the NCAA can save it from itself. Supposedly, the NCAA’s recent set of guidelines has no real jurisdiction over colleges that want to make their own rules or go by the state laws that have been put into place. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order that goes along […]

One more Tar Heel will be added to UNC’s list of NBA champions. Justin Jackson or Cameron Johnson will become the 18th Carolina basketball player to win an NBA title. According to UNC, this is the 11th time the NBA Finals featured teams with former Tar Heels on opposing sides. Jackson of the Milwaukee Bucks […]