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The ACC's Funky Format

Posted by | Jan 31, 2012 |

Does it beguile you, bemuse you or just plain bug you that Carolina plays six ACC opponents only once each season and the other five twice? And while the Tar Heels hosted Georgia Tech Sunday night and visit Wake Forest tonight,...

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Get Ready To Rumble

Posted by | Jan 13, 2012 |

Frankly, I am worried Carolina’s basketball team may be too good for its own good. The Tar Heels have improved their defense and intensity since early season losses to UNLV and Kentucky, and they blew out their first two...

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Good Chemistry, At Last

Posted by | Jan 6, 2012 |

Even as Larry Fedora injects a youthful, wide-eyed energy into Carolina Football not seen here since Mack Brown, the Butch backers and Holden haters continue to view the glass as more than half empty. I ran into such a group...

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Blue Skies Ahead

Posted by | Dec 8, 2011 |

It still may not seem so to the knuckleheads who hate Holden Thorp, but the Chancellor had a plan that he could finally hatch last July 26, when he decided that Butch Davis and the embarrassment his football program cost UNC had...

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The Weekend Watch

Posted by | Dec 5, 2011 |

If you’re a devout Tar Heel and ACC sports fan, who did not succumb to the Saturday sunshine, it turned out to be a helluva weekend watch, beginning with the Carolina-Kentucky tip at high noon and ending with Russell Wilson...

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Rating Dean The Best

Posted by | Nov 20, 2011 |

I did not mind the well-deserved accolades for Mike Krzyzewski after he set the new victory record for Division 1 basketball coaches. What gave me a slow burn is how Dean Smith was left outside the three-point line by certain...

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A 'Classic' Beginning

Posted by | Nov 13, 2011 |

When the ACC expanded to 11 and then 12 schools a few years ago, the new members were worried about UNC and Duke running away from the pack in basketball. So they asked to be treated equally in every tangible way, and from that...

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Hurry, Bubba, Hurry

Posted by | Nov 4, 2011 |

Bubba Cunningham can’t come too soon. And he might bring along a pith hat, small wooden chair and bull whip. Frankly, he’s walking into a bit of a zoo.   We’ve already fired a football coach and faced the judge and jury on nine...

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New Paradigm Needed

Posted by | Aug 29, 2011 |

The pressure is immense on Holden Thorp to make the right hire for Carolina’s next Director of Athletics. Thorp remains under heavy criticism for firing Butch Davis a week before football practice began, and that scrutiny comes...

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