The NFL Draft went about as expected for Carolina. Despite no first-round picks, the Tar Heels had one of their best football drafts in history with five players picked from the second to the sixth rounds. Three of them beat the ESPN projections going into the second round Friday, two of them fell slightly short. Javonte […]

There are rumors growing at Duke that seem very logical. Duke Athletics Director Kevin White announced his retirement months ago, effective at the end of the spring semester. But a search committee was just formed and no names have made the media as possible candidates. White retiring after a decade atop a great athletic program […]

The unofficial rules of recruiting are officially dumb. Dean Smith had a habit of finding methods that were in the gray area, use them to his advantage and wait for enough rival coaches to complain the NCAA made whatever he did against the rules. Mack Brown and Carolina football are blowing all the other state […]

Pat Sullivan’s hire means all the boys are back in town. The Tar Heels’ new head of player development on Hubert Davis’ staff is a great hire in several ways. First, it completes Davis’ pledge to form a staff who all played for Carolina in the Dean Smith and Roy Williams eras. Second, it speaks […]

The Hornets may be the hidden gem of the NBA. The Charlotte Hornets epitomize both college and pro basketball right now, with a roster of not-so-familiar names of guys who can really play the game. UNC alum Mitch Kupchak is the team’s general manager who is building a roster that is for real. A one-time Gregg Popovich assistant, head coach James Borrego has the […]

Will it be another three-peat for Karen Shelton’s field hockey program? During a truncated Olympic sports season at Carolina, with multiple top-ranked teams, field hockey is going after its third straight NCAA championship beginning Friday at the stadium named for the Tar Heels’ Hall of Fame coach. Shelton has padded her NCAA record 700-plus wins […]

The Tar Heels traded Walker Kessler for Brady Manek. If Armando Bacot is advised by NBA teams for which he is auditioning that the needs another year in college instead of coming out as an undrafted free agent, the 2022 Tar Heels could be much-improved over the last two seasons. And if Dean Smith’s old […]

Let justice for George Floyd be the beginning not the end. Athletic teams from high school to college to the pros stepped up and out to condemn the death of Floyd by unwarranted police force back in May, flexing the most influential faction of American life. Much of the public has given up on politics […]

Carolina football is crashing the early ranking parties. Besides being in every top twenty pre-season poll for 2021, Mack Brown’s Tar Heels are showing up in some other unprecedented places, such as most likely to crash the College Football Playoff and most-likely top quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidates. Tell me: where and when have you […]

You want to know the very latest on Walker Kessler? I received a private message the other day, claiming Kessler had agreed to return to UNC after Hubert Davis’ visit last Sunday, only to change his mind and commit to Auburn the next day. The messenger said that Auburn coach Bruce Pearl agreed to hire […]