Seriously, how lucky are we to have Mack Brown as our football coach? You’ve heard me say it before, but Brown continues to amaze. He holds two Zoom press conferences a week; is there another coach in the country who does that? Ross Martin, of Inside Carolina, gleaned 10 take-aways from Brown’s Wednesday presser — everything […]

When are we going to see protocols for ACC and college basketball? I hate to be a party-pooper, but my excitement about the Maui-Asheville Invitation was tempered by some medical experts having said “If you think football has been a challenge, wait to we get to basketball.” The reasoning for thinking COVID could be more of […]

Virginia Tech could be triple trouble at quarterback for Carolina. The only silver lining of a COVID outbreak on a football team is the coach must use whichever players are healthy and, in the process, could wind up building depth for when the infected return. The Tar Heels may be facing that situation Saturday with the Hokies, who […]

Sorry, great debaters, LeBron was no Michael on Sunday night. After the Lakers crushed the Heat in the first two games of the NBA Finals, I thought it was a sweep. LA had to be that good because Miami was very good in the Eastern finals against Boston, and the Heat had starters Adebayo and […]

Why are Ohio State, Penn State and Oregon in the AP rankings? The Big Ten and Pac 12 weren’t banned from starting their college football seasons in September, as scheduled. They chose not to do it, and then used the data the ACC, SEC and Big 12 compiled to reverse their course and decide to […]

Will college football be played this weekend? Stay tuned. In what might be generously called a topsy-turvy world, the planet may be tilting on its axis, depending on how the President and First Lady recover from contracting COVID-19. Though their condition at this point isn’t nearly as serious, and hopefully will never be, this does […]

Carolina basketball has back-to-back No. 2 recruiting classes. I hope this COVID-dominated world has not made you forget that Roy Williams will come off his first losing season as a head coach with a couple of starters back buoyed by the nation’s second-rated recruiting class, a potential ACC and NCAA champion that has been quietly […]

The COVID-19 elephant is in the NFL locker room. No one actually thought that even the most prepared and sheltered professional teams were going to escape this. Baseball almost shut down before it really reopened, but has managed to recover and is now into its abbreviated post-season. Hockey and basketball both resumed play in their […]

You want my dream Super Bowl match-up? I’ll give it to you right now. The defending NFL champion Kansas City Chiefs are, at this early stage of the season, the best team in pro football. Patrick Mahomes proved that again Monday night with four touchdown passes and a fifth running in KC’s easy 34-20 win […]

The early haves and have-nots are showing up in ACC football. No telling what’s going to happen with the already-checkered season in terms of postponements, cancellations and infections. For example, after three weeks, we still have three conference teams that have played only one game, Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech. Of those that have played […]