Carolina’s football schedule is becoming its own worst enemy. I keep reading these stories on various Tar Heel blog sites that say the biggest reason Mack Brown’s team could make the College Football Playoff is because of its weak schedule. The national site 247 claims Carolina has the third-easiest schedule in the country. The easiest, […]

Is the end of college amateurism the beginning of another Wild West? Didn’t the Supreme Court rule that athletes could be compensated in certain ways as long as those payments were tied to education? Since then, all hell has broken loose across the country with states that have NIL rules in place and states and […]

Cameron Johnson is one win away from his basketball dream. The Phoenix Suns’ sixth man has already set all kinds of records, such as fastest player in franchise history to hit 100 3-pointers, but he is still somewhat under the radar on a team that features Devin Booker and Chris Paul, two of Johnson’s backcourt […]

Mack Brown continues to make family the linchpin to success. Carolina football is on its way to having a third-straight nationally ranked recruiting class, which follows the arrival of Sam Howell, perhaps the most important player Brown has ever signed to play for the Tar Heels.

MJ stood up in the original Olympic brand protest. This year’s delayed Olympics in Tokyo is almost 30 years after the 1992 Games in Barcelona, when NBA players were allowed to compete and Nike and Reebok were at war over how much money they could spend on brand recognition. Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley were […]

Who is Rashad McCants talking about besides himself? So now the disgruntled and unwelcome former Tar Heel has written his own book, or somebody else helped write it for him. “Plantation Education: The Exploitation of the Modern-Day Athlete-Student” tells the same story we’ve been hearing for years and tells it through his own lens of failure […]

“Inside the NBA” deserves its own documentary. The best basketball analysis show is on TNT and captained by former Carolina great Kenny Smith. In an industry that has so many cable networks and so many talking heads trying to scream a word in edgewise, this show is truly unique. Kenny Smith is the smartest guy at […]

The Supreme Court on the NCAA really means nothing, yet. When the Supreme Court upheld a lower court-ruling that schools could not deny athletes money and opportunities when it comes to their education, it gave the NCAA a pass on whether its business model is going to crumble. It won’t, for now, with the higher […]

Armando Bacot made another right move for Hubert Davis. With the possible exception of losing Walker Kessler to Auburn, UNC’s new basketball coach has been right on the money with his public pronouncements and recruiting moves three months into the job. Davis got his fourth starter back from last season when Bacot said he was […]

How much has social media affected recruiting? A lot. Mack Brown turns 70 one week before his nationally ranked Tar Heels open the 2021 season at Virginia Tech. How much has Brown changed since he first coached Carolina in the 1980s and ‘90s? As much as the college game has changed regarding recruiting. Brown jokes […]