@TarHeelMonthly calls is a "great piece" of UNC basketball history. Rightfully so not just for Dean Smith's speech but because Frank McGuire did the introduction. That is three of UNC's five NCAA...
Happy birthday and continued best wishes to Dean Smith on this, his 81st birthday. To commemorate the day, the Daily Tar Heel has this great graphic summarizing Coach Smith's career.
Here is an interesting tidbit from a New York Post article on Kobe Bryant about his decision to enter the NBA directly from high school. Bryant estimates receiving well over 500 scholarship offers....
John Feinstein has a new book out titled One on One which recounts various stories from his interaction with some of the great coaches and athletes over the course of his career. In this excerpt...
Video via WRAL. Also check out the other interviews with Charlie Scott and Phil Ford posted there. The very beginning of the video is quite frankly enough to bring any Tar Heel fan to tears or...
Happy 80th birthday to the legend that is University of North Carolina basketball, Dean Edwards Smith, and a classy move by Maryland's Gary Williams to mention it during last night's post-game. As...
One word: Awesome. Consider this your break from the tediousness of reading internet tea leaves about what the NCAA is going to do to UNC football. For those of us who remember this game, this...
UPDATE: Full text of the letter can be found here. Dean Smith's family, which had been silent as stories began to trickle out about his condition, released a letter to the media: It has been an...
This was linked on one of the other posts yesterday. Washington Post sports writer John Feinstein revealed on his blog what has known about Dean Smith's health since last year having seen it first...
From Dan Wiederer at the Fayetteville Observer, confirmation of what has been discussed for months: Dean Smith's health is declining. But the moment so many inside the North Carolina program...
