The Tar Heels are going with their not-so-powerful, powder blue. Almost suddenly, the Carolina-State game has become a very big deal. It was moved up in the revised ACC schedule, and the Wolfpack has climbed into the rankings by winning four of its first five games. The oddsmakers don’t believe it will be close, installing […]

Hi-ho Silver, Ol’ Roy will be the masked man on the bench. Roy Williams held his first Zoom press conference of the new basketball season, and he was the same old coach Carolina has had for the last 17 years. Except for the following: Roy is still ticked off – he used another word – […]

Where is college football at, almost, the halfway point of the season? Obviously, we’ve never seen a college football season, or an NFL season, quite like this one. The conferences that chose to play amidst the national pandemic can be placed into three categories: the ACC, the SEC and the Big Eight. The ACC has […]

Editor’s Note: The comment referenced in this column and credited to Phil Longo were made by a reader with the username ‘Phil Longo.’ The identity of the commenter has not been confirmed. Mack Brown is way better after a tough loss than a big win. When he returned to Chapel Hill, Brown said he didn’t […]

The Atlanta Braves faithful are in mourning – again. The Dodgers aren’t exactly America’s team – the moniker the Braves used to have after Ted Turner started carrying their games on the TBS cable superstation in 1970. But the former Bums from Brooklyn retain a huge following and broke the Bravos’ collective heart by rallying […]

Mack Brown is overdue to get his first win ever over Florida State. Perhaps the only glaring blemish on the record of the nation’s winningest active college football coach is 0-9 against Florida State. And while that looks bad, here are the mitigating circumstances. When Brown was the head coach at Tulane in the 1980s, […]

One Night in Miami is both a classic and contemporary film. Film Fest 919 opened Wednesday night at the new drive-in at Carraway Village with a movie we’ll all be hearing about right through awards season, which culminates with the 2021 Oscars. Directed by Academy Award-winning actress Regina King, it is an adaptation of the […]

You think the Tar Heels should go to Tallahassee this weekend? Mack Brown has done an exemplary job with the safety of his football team so far, while half the world acts like it is living on a different planet – another reason to vote Trump out of office. Florida coach Dan Mullen lost a […]

There is a simple reason Carolina football is building back better. Mack Brown gives credit to Larry Fedora, where it is deserved, but it’s becoming more apparent with every win that Fedora’s stamp is still all over this program with the recruits he left behind. Brown arrived with a better coaching staff and championship pedigree […]

The death threats on social media have to lead to regulation. Why can Danny Green miss the winning shot and have his life threatened on social media, when that could not happen to him in any other media form? Not in the comment section of an online post or a threatening call to a talk […]