It’s becoming Carolina’s Year of Living Dangerously. All those people who are agonizing over the Tar Heels’ basketball season, get a grip. Look at the stats. This sheet happens. The players aren’t playing the way the coach wants them to play, and the coach doesn’t know what to say about it. How could he? He […]

The good news, bad news season for Garrison Brooks. The good news is Carolina’s junior forward had a career-high 35 points in the embarrassing loss to Georgia Tech on Saturday. The bad news is that stellar performance came largely because the rest of Brooks’ teammates were driving teetotaler Roy Williams to drink. It was the […]

NOTE: This post has been updated by the author! The Panthers really blew it by hiring the Baylor coach. Okay, the deal wasn’t done, but how dumb were the Panthers for not hiring Josh McDaniels and also signing free-agent Tom Brady, who would have rebirthed the franchise. That’s why I think that plan was far […]

Defense also cost Carolina the game against Georgia Tech. When an ACC basketball team misses its first 15 shots from the floor and goes more than 13 minutes without making a field goal, that is bound to get most of the attention. However, it was only part of the reason the Tar Heels trailed the […]

Some New Year’s resolution for Carolina teams and coaches. As we welcome the new year and new decade, here is what I wish for in the Carolina athletic orbit. A successful growth spurt for the struggling Tar Heel basketball team, which has been caught short with its usual array of talented players and been burdened […]

On average, Roy Williams is the best college coach ever. Without getting into the weeds of numbers and fractions, Williams has won more games per season than any other coach, including all-time leader Mike Krzyzewski (1142) and Roy’s mentor Dean Smith, whom he tied with 879 career victories by beating Yale. It had to be […]

The NFL playoff brackets worked out exactly the right way. Isn’t it amazing how much the National Football League has become the true sports past time in this country? The NFL always seems take us to a breathless end of the regular season, and this time the playoff contenders wound up exactly where they should […]

I am rooting for Clemson to reach another CFP championship game. Maybe I won’t like them as much in a couple of years, but right now what Dabo Swinney is doing with the Tigers is cool on and off the field. Swinney has become the best interview among head coaches in the ACC if not […]

The Mack Brown television series resumes tomorrow. I’m not sure UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham knew what he was getting when the conversation with Mack, the consultant, turned to Mack, the potential candidate to become the head football coach at Carolina for the second time. Brown was working as an unpaid consultant for both Cunningham […]

The Dallas Cowboys are worse than bad — how about “embarrassing?” I’m not sure what is worse: The once-beloved America’s Team not having been to a Super Bowl in 24 years, Jerry Jones owning and running the organization that long, or Jones sticking with Jason Garrett for nine seasons of frustration? In a state where […]