Category: Tar Heels

Football is getting quite a few headlines lately.  The mainstream media is aghast at the idea that people can – *gasp* – get seriously hurt playing this game.  Guys who play the game are — *gasp* –– sometimes not very nice to each other. Here…

  I spent Tuesday night, in my usual spot in The Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, watching my beloved Tar Heels dismantle The Miami Hurricanes.  As halftime approached, the P.A. announcer encouraged all of us to remain in our seats at the start…

Heads were rolling Thursday in Chapel Hill.   UNC football coach Butch Davis had been dismissed Wednesday in the wake of a year long NCAA investigation of the school’s football program.  At a  Thursday press conference, Chancellor Holden Thorp and Athletic Director Dick Baddour discussed…