David Glenn

On the same weekend when legendary North Carolina soccer coach Anson Dorrance announced his retirement, the university’s athletic program was at risk of a rarity: being shut out of gold medals at the Summer Olympics.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame now includes 378 members. Even within that illustrious group, North Carolina’s own Julius Peppers is truly one of a kind.

Nearly 1,000 National Collegiate Athletic Association athletes, representing more than 200 universities and more than 100 countries, are participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics in France

When former Duke star Jayson Tatum led Boston to the 2024 National Basketball Association title earlier this month, he won his first NBA championship ring and helped the Celtics to their record 18th crown.

About five months ago, before the start of the 2024 college baseball season, various preseason rankings pegged North Carolina as a Top 25-caliber team but not necessarily one of the favorites, either nationally or in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

This year, the NCAA Tournament bracket includes seven in-state teams: Duke, ECU, High Point, NC State, UNC, UNCW and Wake Forest. Again, that was the highest number for any state; only Louisiana, with six representatives, is in the same neighborhood this time.

A recent meeting of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees was an embarrassing clown show, even without anyone wearing an oversized nose or shiny red shoes.

In the summer of 2020, North Carolina baseball coach Scott Forbes accepted a doubly difficult task. The long-time Carolina pitching guru was promoted to succeed the retiring Mike Fox, who was by far the most successful coach in the program’s proud history.

Although much has changed in American basketball over the past 40-plus years, college players’ typical approach to their NBA draft early entry decisions has remained at least partly intact.