The Triangle College Football Playoff is off and running. I talked a few days ago about all three local major college teams finding themselves at 4-6 after losses last weekend. But each of them still had a chance to earn a bowl bid by winning their last two games. Mack Brown took it another step […]

Carolina heads for the islands, its preseason schedule over. When you study the Tar Heels’ first four games, you see what is only a shadow of their recent past. This, of course, goes back to the severe losses from last year – four starters and their top five scorers. If not for Cole Anthony’s record […]

Bobby Gersten went out with a standing ovation from a sold-out house. There’s an old joke about not having anyone at your funeral because you outlived all who might have come. That was not the case for Gersten, the oldest Tar Heel athlete after passing away at 99 in October. He had a small tribute service from his […]

Carolina basketball may have to win with a different formula. Roy Williams was on edge after his team’s third straight win of the young season over Gardner Webb last Friday night. Why? Presumably because the media was asking him about the number of shots and points Cole Anthony has been putting up so far in […]

Carolina was the best of a bad weekend for the Big Four. Duke, N.C. State and Wake Forest were outscored 135-29 Saturday by Syracuse, Louisville, and Clemson. At least, the Tar Heels’ loss Thursday night at Pitt was a respectable 34-27. The problem is that it left the local Triangle teams all with 4-6 records, […]

Football in Pittsburgh had the good, the bad and the very ugly Thursday night. In a country already being torn apart by anger and crime, the college and pro football teams from Pittsburgh played nationally televised games simultaneously on ESPN and FOX. Pitt and Carolina fought hard at Heinz Field, where the Panthers edged the […]

Coby White became a recruiter for Roy Williams after his biggest pro game. Was is it a coincidence that the Chicago Bulls rookie authored his official entrance into the NBA on a night his college coach was there to see it? Roy Williams, Assistant Coach Steve Robinson and Director of Player Development Eric Hoots were in […]

On the eve of you-know-what, the sports headlines were also screaming. I often write and record this show late at night to either include a UNC or national event that just finished up or to catch the latest-breaking headlines. Tuesday night it was both, and the stories were major – from the upset of top-ranked […]

Two of Carolina’s Hall of Fame coaches did it for the 22nd time Sunday. Granted, Mack Brown and Roy Williams get most of the national attention because they coach the two biggest sports at UNC. But while both the football and basketball Tar Heels were not playing over the weekend, Anson Dorrance and Karen Shelton showed again they’re the […]

The Roy Williams-Dean Smith victory chase is officially on. Dean Smith retired after winning 879 games, which was then the all-time record for a major college basketball coach. Smith had tied Kentucky legend Adolph Rupp, who had 876 career victories, at the 1997 NCAA tournament in Winston-Salem by beating Fairfield in the first round at Joel Coliseum, which […]