Outgoing AD Baddour extends coaches’ contracts
On the day beore his successor is expected to be introduced, outgoing North Carolina athletic director Dick Baddour extended the contracts of men's basketball coach Roy Williams, women's basketball...
View ArticleUNC hoping AD hire gives it a ‘Bubba bounce’
If the quality of UNC's new athletic director hiring is as good as its timing, then Lawrence "Bubba" Cunningham will be a keeper for the Tar Heels.… Read More »
View ArticleWho is Bubba Cunningham?
The new North Carolina AD is anything but the 'hayseed' from Tulsa he jokingly made himself out to be Friday. Here's his bio and a few excerpts from his introductary press conference Friday.… Read More »
View ArticleUNC schedules home-and-home FB series with The Ohio State
The Tar Heels will play in Columbus in 2017 with the Buckeyes returning the favor by making their first ever trip to Chapel Hill in 2017.… Read More »
View ArticleDon’t judge UNC sanctions on Ohio State decision
Regardless of what anyone in the national media – or anywhere else, for that matter – will tell you, the NCAA has no specific guidelines to determine the severity of the violations committed or the...
View ArticleTop 10 ACC stories of 2011
From football scandals at UNC and Miami to coach K's record-setting 903rd win and Russell Wilson's free agent saga, 2011 was an unusually eventful year in the ACC. Before moving on to 2012, here’s a...
View ArticleTar Heels ready to take their medicine and move forward
Though the effects of the sanctions handed down to UNC's football program will continue to be felt for the foreseeable future because of a significant reduction in scholarships, the Tar Heels can now...
View ArticleACC reprimands UNC with verbal slap on the wrist
For only the second time in its 22-year existence, the ACC's Committee on Penalties and Infractions has added to the punishment handed down to one of its schools by the NCAA.… Read More »
View ArticleSharks might go hungry even after new UNC internal probe
It’s Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. That seems only appropriate, given the number of fins circling around Chapel Hill these days. They’ve come from as close as Raleigh and as far away as Clemson...
View ArticleTroubled star Hairston hasn’t learned from mistakes of the past … has UNC?
You’d think at some point UNC basketball star P.J. Hairston would decide to lay low and stay out of the public spotlight for awhile until those in positions of authority figure out what to do with him...
View ArticleUNC’s Williams defends players, calls CNN report untrue and ‘totally unfair’
CHAPEL HILL – North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams said Tuesday night that he feels “mentally, probably worse than I’ve ever felt as a head coach.” And his team’s ugly 63-57 loss to Miami at...
View ArticleWilliams unlikely to leave UNC for Lakers. But if he did, who would replace him?
There's little chance Roy Williams would leave Roy Williams for the Los Angeles Lakers. But if he did, who would be next in line to take over one of college basketball’s most tradition-laden...
View ArticleNCAA coming back to Chapel Hill to continue 2011 investigation
The ongoing drama that is the North Carolina academic scandal took another unexpected twist Monday when athletic director Bubba Cunningham issued a statement acknowledging that the NCAA is coming back...
View ArticleTimeline of events in UNC athletic/academic scandal
Here is the time line of events in the UNC athletic/academic scandal from Marvin Austin's first Tweet from Miami Beach in 2010 to Wednesday's release of the Wainstein Report… Read More »
View ArticleWhat they’re saying about the late Dean Smith
Here is a sample of what people are saying about North Carolina coaching legend Dean Smith, who died Saturday night at the age of 83: … Read More »
View ArticleWhat they’re saying about the late Bill Guthridge
Here’s a sample of what people are saying about former UNC basketball coach Bill Guthridge, who died Tuesday at the age of 77… Read More »
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