There’s a big difference between college and college athletics. Mack Brown held a ZOOM conference Monday and said all he knows about the forthcoming football season, which isn’t much. No one has told him that his team can’t practice in August or won’t open play at Central Florida on September 4. At least, not yet. […]

The complicated life of Michael Jordan continues. As every element of Jordan’s complex career attracts record prime-time audiences during the nothing-else-to-watch pandemic, it is understandable why ESPN producers were surprised when Michael approved episodes 7 and 8 of the Last Dance without any edits. The series that is likely to win every TV award imaginable […]

Where has Roy Williams been anyway? How about recruiting. When I saw the terrific UNCUT interview moderated by Bubba Cunningham with Carolina coaches Courtney Banghart, Anson Dorrance and Mack Brown, my first reaction was, “Where is Ol’ Roy?” Well, during the lockdown for the COVID 19 pandemic, Williams has been spending a lot of time quarantined at his home in the North Carolina mountains. […]

College football needs to set a date to implement Plans B or C. Mack Brown said last week that he wished coaches stopped talking publicly about any scenarios that, in light of the pandemic, are still in question. Sure, football teams can start preparing like practice and the games are coming, but the question is […]

Iona College and Wake Forest tried to sneak in debatable hires. Before Iona hired Rick Pitino and Wake Forest fired Danny Manning, all college basketball coaching changes were at small schools with either no-names or up-and-comers we hadn’t heard of yet. Then Pitino returned to the college game needing two porters to carry all of […]

You want to hear a pretty good Michael Jordan story? Like almost anyone in the media who was around Chapel Hill at the time, I knew Michael when he played here. I might have been in one of his early golf entourages as he was just learning the game; when I joined him at Finley […]

Clearly, the SEC is leading the charge for money over safety. Most of the noise coming down on the side of playing college football is from the SEC, the richest gridiron conference with the steepest and deepest tradition. It sure looks like those schools in the SEC that will be allowed to play will take […]

How can Wake Forest afford to fire Danny Manning? If there was ever a reason NOT to make a coaching change, Wake Forest had it before letting another loser go. Granted, the former Kansas All-American led the Deacons to one NCAA tournament in six years, but c’mon, he had a $15 million buyout. Like most […]

If God is a Tar Heel, he will let us play football in the fall. The news about Mack Brown won’t go away, or even subside. His current recruiting class has climbed to 14 in number and No. 3 in the country, and there are almost a dozen uncommitted prospects who are among the best […]

The NBA is messing with college basketball again. Three top-12 high school prospects are not taking the popular one-and-done route to the NBA. They are skipping college altogether to sign with the developmental G-League, which bumped its top guaranteed salary to $125,000 in 2020 and may be raising it some more for next season, whenever […]