As the world can’t go forward, we’re living in the past.

Today, normally, if I said there are no scores to report or headlines to break, you would say, “Hah, ha, April Fools!”

But no kidding. There is next to nothing to talk about from the world of sports. So fantasy teams, best-of polls and nostalgia fill the sports websites, as cable channels suddenly with no content replay great games from old NCAA tournaments.

Of course, a popular pastime for totally bored and shuttered Carolina fans is picking the best Tar Heel teams of all times. That is being debated on email threads, where the under-50 crowd never votes for the likes of Lennie Rosenbluth, Billy Cunningham or Bob McAdoo.

Fansided had the best starting five and a group of honorable mentions. Their All-Heel five is pretty obvious with Phil Ford at point guard, Michael Jordan at shooting guard, James Worthy at small forward, Tyler Hansbrough at the 4 and Sam Perkins at center.

Tell me from the list of “others” who deserves to be on that starting five: Vince Carter, Cunningham, Brad Daugherty, Hubert Davis, Antawn Jamison, Sean May, McAdoo, Eric Montross, Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace? Not even close, an open-and-shut case. And they didn’t even list National Player of the Year Rosenbluth, who might have been close!

Jordan, the erstwhile GOAT, hasn’t played ball in almost 20 years, but ESPN.com had no less than four stories on MJ’s minor league baseball career, one guaranteeing MJ would have been in the Majors had he stayed in the minors – and learned to hit a curveball.

From the NFL on down, there are speculative stories on how free agency, the forthcoming drafts and recruiting will affect the next seasons, with the growing possibility that there may not be any “next seasons” in the near future.

We can ask Mack Brown and Roy Williams, etc., how and what they are doing. But we already know the answers, trying to stay in touch with their players during the unknown and what the NCAA has instituted, and I kid you not, a “dead period.”

Wrong choice of words by the NCAA, considering.

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