Now, it’s Antonio-gate that has the Patriots in new hot water. From Spy-gate to Deflate-gate to Massage-gate, the New England Patriots seem to stay in the headlines almost as much for off-the-field accusations as on-the-field excellence. And now they’re back in the soup for a superstar receiver who could make them the best team in […]

The other Carolina football team is shockingly now 0-2. Some optimists might have predicted the Tar Heels would be 2-0 before ever playing a true road game. But who among us would have picked the NFL Panthers to be 0-2 after two home games? After watching the Cats in their first two encounters you could […]

It’s the D, not the O, most responsible for Carolina’s fast start. Before the season I asked Lee Pace, who is the best writer of Tar Heel sports around, how he thought Mack Brown’s first team of his second tenure would do. Pace predicted Carolina would be 4-0 going into the Clemson game because a […]

Can college athletes handle a new names-image-likeness law? The bill passed by the California State Assembly looks like the first step toward college athletes making more than the NCAA now allows. Schools could not legally pay their stars beyond the current limits of a college scholarship, but outside vendors would be able to buy the […]

Will Bubba Cunningham be tempted again? Almost three years ago, Carolina’s athletic director had a contract for the same position at the University of Florida sitting on his desk at home. It was reportedly for twice as much as he was making running the Tar Heels’ program. UNC’s Board of Trustees upped his compensation package, but nothing […]

Is that Miami game still ringing in your eyes or ears? Due to the ACC Network still being a work in progress, we had several ways to follow Carolina’s classic win over the Hurricanes in Kenan Stadium Saturday night. Best bet, of course, was to be there. The game sold out after the Tar Heels stunned South Carolina […]

The NFL opener set the game back, well, a hundred years. To launch the 100th season of the National Football League, two legendary franchises played like they were being coached by Curly Lambeau and George Halas. If you haven’t heard of those two old-timers, then you get my point. Aaron Rogers and Mitch Trubisky locked into […]

It’s a serendipitous start to the Carolina football season. Nine months ago, who would have believed the Tar Heels could dig their way out of the apathy that engulfed the program after they had slogged to a 2-9 record, making it 5-18 over two years after four straight bowl seasons. Larry Fedora had lost whatever […]

Will Avery is going back to Duke to, ahem, get his degree. The Dukie bloggers must be running out of material. Almost every day, they write about some 5-star one and done Coach K is getting, followed the next day by, oh my god, what will happen if Duke doesn’t sign some 3-and-4-stars and another […]

Mack Brown showed some Macarena rap rhythm. Carolina’s suddenly heroic football coach claims he can’t dance, but he promised his players that if they beat South Carolina he would hoof it with them afterward. They did and he did. Brown gingerly jogged out of the tunnel behind his team on a recent knee replacement from a local […]