Saturday promises to be the good, the bad and the ugly. I am excited to see the pandemic-plagued start of the football season and how good the Tar Heels really are with Sam Howell back at the throttle of an even more dangerous offense. I feel terribly bad for the town of Chapel Hill and […]

We need more info on the ACC’s proposal of an all-in hoops tourney. Let’s say it was Mike Krzyzewski’s idea, which it probably was, to celebrate college basketball – “our game,” he calls it – with all Division I teams competing in the 2021 NCAA tournament. That’s 346 teams, from the top 20 to the […]

Mack Brown is hoping the all the hype is worth it. If you look at Carolina’s revised schedule, it is set up for a perilous path to a top-two finish in the ACC and a spot in the championship game in Charlotte – if the season lasts that long. Brown was saying Monday that he […]

The cuts to Carolina Athletics have started, but likely not ended. Much speculation over the last few months, besides whether we’ll have a college football season, is how UNC manages the deep losses that began with the pandemic and shutdown last March. Right off the bat, UNC Hospitals canceled all non-essential surgeries and procedures and […]

Vince Carter will be flying over ESPN sooner or later. He’s 43 years old and had begun his 22nd year in pro basketball before the pandemic hit. His net worth is $110 million and will forever own the nicknames “Vinsanity” and “Air Canada.” Carter was already a sensational athlete who really didn’t know how to play […]

I think I know why Eric Trump posted that doctored UNC video. Two anecdotes why the renegade Trump family would post that edited video of Roy Williams and the Tar Heels after the 2017 NCAA championship win, and neither has to do with plain stupidity. Supposedly, before the 2016 election, Trump’s team abruptly walked out of the […]

John Thompson was part of Dean Smith’s Carolina family. Roy Williams said it best when paying tribute to the former Georgetown coach, who died Monday at the age of 78. Roy called Thompson one of Coach Smith’s closest friends and recounted how Big John had been there for retirement ceremonies and tender moments in Smith’s […]

The debate over campus closing and athletes playing is not a fair one. As Carolina sports teams, and those of other conferences around the country, try to open their seasons after the student bodies have been off-loaded to remote learning, the dispute is raging. How can we send students away and let the jocks stay […]

Lou Holtz is still making headlines 50 years after being discovered. When William & Mary came into Kenan Stadium during the 1971 football season, as the Tar Heels were on their way to the ACC championship, the Tribe looked like it barely had 30 players. Three hours later, Carolina was lucky to escape with a 36-35 win. In the stands watching […]

Maybe this time, Black Lives will Matter enough. It’s appropriate that the NBA is the leader again. Pro basketball was the first sport to halt play when the coronavirus infiltrated their league. It was the first to put a plan together to return to action and along with pro hockey were succeeding inside a bubble. […]