Two reasons why nobody’s crying for Carolina. ‘The Tar Heels need one more win to have more for the season than the 2002 team that finished 8-20. The year was a blip in the middle of Matt Doherty’s up-and-down three seasons. Some Dukie tweeted the other day that Carolina still hasn’t won in this decade, […]

The Tar Heels played with a lot of heart, all broken at the end. For the second time in three outings, Carolina did well enough for most of the game to win. But the Heels missed some pressure shots and made enough mistakes to let the desperately needed victory slip away. While this may well […]

Tell me Kansas doesn’t wish Roy Williams was still the coach. Those of you who haven’t seen what happened at the end of the Kansas State-Kansas game last night, go see the videotape. It was a brawl from yesteryear, something you thought we would never see in a college basketball game again. We’ve asked similar […]

Is this a good year or bad year for Carolina to have a down year? That’s a pretty good question. It is clear by now that the Tar Heels are on their way to finishing closer to last in the ACC than first. They are 1-5, 8-9 overall, with no game left on the schedule […]

The Tar Heels will win Saturday at Pitt. I almost guarantee it. By the law of averages alone, Carolina has to win a game one of these days – and I think it will be at Pitt. That prediction comes with a big asterisk for Brandon Robinson, who was in a car accident Saturday night after the […]

Baseball has drawn an indelible line over technology. Most people are going to say it’s much ado about nothing because stealing signs in baseball is as old as, well, the game itself. Everybody does it, so why can’t teams do it the new-fashioned way? In a stunning development, two of the last three World Series champions fired […]

A few thoughts on Duke’s loss to Clemson. My first reaction is why am I writing about Clemson for, what, the fourth straight day? Two stories last week were on the Tar Heels trying to run their home record against the Tigers to 60-0, both how they would because they always had. Then, yesterday demanded […]

UNC has the pieces to adopt the recipe for beating Clemson. After its basketball team snapped a losing streak of 59 in Chapel Hill, Clemson snapped its own football winning streak of 29 by losing to LSU in the College Football Playoff title game. In the Bengal Tigers’ 42-25 win over Clemson, both schools that […]

So he made a mistake, not a fireable offense. It probably wasn’t the first mistake Roy Williams made against Clemson. And it certainly wasn’t the only one he or any other coach has made during a fast-paced game in real-time. But I’m dumbfounded for this reason. Of all the situational stuff in basketball, leading by three points […]

Clemson in Chapel Hill? Well, the Tigers better stay home. When Clemson plays here tomorrow for the 60th time – from Bynum Hall to the Tin Can to Woollen Gym to Blue Heaven to the Dean Dome – it will be facing quite a one-sided legacy. While there have been some close games, Carolina’s average […]