UPDATES: Major League Baseball announced Thursday morning the Nationals and Mets game has been postponed due to COVID-19. Several reports also indicate Francisco Lindor and the Mets have agreed to a 10-year extension. It’s opening day in Major League Baseball, and here are the headlines. Baseball returns from its COVID-delayed season of 2020, and President […]

Mack Brown is worried about the future of college football. He obviously loves his job and is building another power at UNC, which is lucky to have him back. But the Hall of Famer is concerned about the game he has played and coached for his entire adult life. Brown says the NIL (Name-Image-Likeness) controversy […]

There should be no COVID testing for the Final Fours. Although her team lost a controversial game to UConn in the Elite 8, Baylor women’s coach Kim Mulkey is saying what many others are thinking. With this being the last weekend of college basketball for the men and women, why risk one team having to forfeit a game […]

After all is said and done, the Final Four will be just fine. Thank goodness that the NCAA doesn’t really have anything to do with who will win the national championship. They can botch everything else from equity of weight rooms between men and women to the nightmarish transfer portal. But on the court, the […]

Super-star athlete Charlie Shaffer was the original Dean disciple. The Durham native died a week ago after a 10-year battle with progressive dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Just like Dean Smith, for whom Shaffer played basketball in the early 1960s, his cause of death was particularly cruel because he had the sharpest of minds. His fame […]

For now, at least, Carolina is truly a football school. When Mack Brown was here the last time, he knew that the occupational hazard of being UNC’s football coach was needing to have a good season going thru mid-October or risk losing a percentage of the fan base’s serious attention to basketball. That wasn’t as […]

The Walker Kessler news is a shocker — or is it? So much has changed during the COVID season that college basketball is feeling some kind of earthquake that could be the beginning of the end of the NCAA as we know it. The local tremor hit here with the news that UNC’s freshman with […]

If you don’t deserve to win, your chances are lower than ever. Dean Smith always said he struggled between playing well and losing and playing poorly and winning. He knew his job was to win, but the process of practicing and execution was more important because that usually resulted in victory. Times have changed since […]

On paper, the Tar Heels will still be playing on Sunday. The statistics and comparable records make UNC a slight favorite tonight against Wisconsin in their first-round NCAA game. One fact that is often underrated is how the teams have done over the last third of the season, say their last 10 games. The Heels […]