Why doesn’t Dabo Swinney wait to see if we play football? The once-unknown Clemson coach has made the ultimate sacrifice of reducing his income for the last 10 months of the current fiscal year to JUST $7,562,500. Wow, Dabo, I can only come up with the Yiddish word “mensch” to describe you, which means a […]

The NFL got a huge, and somewhat curious, scare this week. As every football fan is wondering — will there be a season and, if so, how long will it last? The debate rages on in college, and until Sunday the NFL looked like it was sure to play. Then the league got 77 positive […]

Remember the term “six feet, 15 minutes” — it could decide the season. The biggest issue about catching COVID-19 is how much up-close time you might spend around someone who already has it. The official CDC wording is “someone who was within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 (consecutive) minutes starting […]

Was the Carolina-Duke rivalry, at its worst, ever close to this? I remember the days when the basketball rivalry between UNC and Duke kept me awake at night. The Dukies were winning more games than we were, going to the Final Four what seemed like every year and Mike Krzyzewski was pushing Dean Smith out […]

Closing the campus could be good news for the hoops season. While the national debate continues over halting in-person teaching on college campuses and if that should affect playing football, UNC’s latest move might help the prospects for beloved basketball. As of Wednesday, all undergraduate courses converted to on-line education. Students can stay in their […]

Hopefully, optics won’t be in the picture this time. Remember when coronavirus hit our country last March and the sports world stopped after one NBA player tested positive and the league closed down? It was the first domino to fall, as one college basketball tournament after another stopped in the middle when the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and Pac 12 all took their balls and went home. The Big […]

Several reasons why Carolina may still play this fall. When the coronavirus caused most universities to go on-line with their classes last spring and all sports teams on the planet hit the pause button, speculation soon turned to the coming football season. College administrators were almost unanimous in their belief that if students did not return […]

The Hurricanes have one more chance to beat their nemesis Boston Bruins. If the Carolina Hurricanes lose game four of the altered NHL playoffs tonight at the bubble in Toronto, they will trail in the best-of-seven series 3-1. It will be virtually impossible for them to come back on the neutral ice with no fans […]

COVID-19 probably cost Carolina its Hall of Fame ball coach. If the coronavirus had not crippled the nation at it has, the Tar Heels probably wouldn’t have a new baseball coach quite this soon. Due to the schedule, Mike Fox had some time off to see the light. With the 2020 season cut short by […]

What are the realistic alternatives for ACC football in 2020? Well, the Big Ten and the Pac-12 did what had been widely speculated in calling off their fall sports calendars for all 14 members. The announcement was greeted with confusion. With athletes unionizing in both conferences, was there also fear of a strike before games? […]