David Glenn

In the early 1990s, Stanford University hired a legendary National Football League head coach with three Super Bowl rings. That Bill Walsh experiment got off to a fantastic start — a 10-3 campaign and a top-10 national finish in 1992 — but Walsh retired at the end of the 1994 season, at 63 years old, after his next two Cardinal teams stumbled to 4-7 and 3-7-1 records.

North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick may have tipped his hand on the Tar Heels’ 2026 starting quarterback choice earlier this year, when he summarized his basic philosophy on the position.

On his way to the 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference football championship, Duke’s first outright league title on the gridiron since 1962, coach Manny Diaz talked about player retention as one of the bedrocks of the Blue Devils’ program.

As North Carolina continues Year Two of its Bill Belichick experiment, the Tar Heels are counting heavily on two major changes from the disastrous approach that led directly to the legendary coach’s 4-8 debacle of a debut in 2025.

“Win today, and we walk together forever.” Immortality. That’s what the North Carolina baseball team is chasing over the next two weeks at the College World Series.

For the fourth time in the eight-year tenure of head coach Rod Brind’Amour, the Carolina Hurricanes are playing in the National Hockey League’s version of the Final Four.