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Ultimately, Lance Armstrong Pedals for 1

Jul 15th 2009 – 11:30 PM

If his name was Kobe Bryant we'd say he was little more than a ball hog.If his name was Manny Ramirez we'd dismiss him as being all about him.If he went by the initials T.O. we'd criticize him as a...

Roy Williams Is Hoops' Newest Dean

Apr 7th 2009 – 1:39 AM

DETROIT – The last North Carolinian to climb the ladder Monday night and clip a piece of the championship net for a keepsake was the head basketball coach, Roy Williams. He went up twice. The...

Court Setup Concerns Roy Williams

Apr 5th 2009 – 3:49 PM

DETROIT -- There are few places -- the golf course, maybe -- where Roy Williams would rather be than where he was Saturday night and will be again on Monday night: the biggest stage in college...

Tough Carolina Digs Its Heels In

Apr 5th 2009 – 2:29 AM

DETROIT -- If you really think about it, to call the North Carolina basketball team Tar Heels has always been more of an oxymoron. Michael Jordan. Walter Davis. Bob McAdoo. Vince Carter. James...

In Detroit, Question Is Who to Cry For?

Apr 3rd 2009 – 9:30 PM

DETROIT -- In an earlier journalistic life, Friday would've been a really big day for me. The reason: the government, each first Friday of the month, issued its most-important piece of economic news...

Coaching Salaries Spiral Out of Control

Apr 1st 2009 – 10:00 AM

At the University of Maryland, where I started teaching a course last semester, the university president just before last Christmas announced that the campus would have to implement a furlough plan...

Tar Heels Are Aged for Victory

Mar 29th 2009 – 11:09 PM

MEMPHIS – After Roy Williams answered his last question Sunday night at the press conference following his Tar Heels' easy 72-60 win over Oklahoma to advance to next weekend's Final Four, a...

A Heel of a Sooners Coach

Mar 29th 2009 – 10:00 AM

MEMPHIS -- Of all the things a little boy growing up in North Carolina coveted in his bedroom, none was more precious than one of the Tar Heels posters on his wall, the one with Michael Jordan...

A Heavyweight Rumble

Mar 28th 2009 – 1:20 AM

MEMPHIS – The last time I came to Memphis for a heavyweight title bout it turned out to be the dud most everyone figured it would be. It was 2002 and Lennox Lewis battered and befuddled Mike...

Blake Griffin Hits Head on Backboard During Dunk. No, Seriously

Mar 27th 2009 – 10:05 PM

MEMPHIS – For those who doubted Blake Griffin was really head and shoulders above the rest of college basketball this year, among the last of his 30 points for the Sooners' Friday night victory...

'BCS-ization' Threatens March

Mar 16th 2009 – 8:05 PM

It is a good thing that the folks who now run the NCAA tournament didn't run the Indiana high school basketball tournament back in the day. If they had, Hoosiers would be just another goofy...

Blake Griffin Doesn't Deserve Obscurity

Mar 11th 2009 – 2:00 AM

If there has been a more-underappreciated man in college basketball than Blake Griffin this season at Oklahoma, I am unaware of him. Consider this: Griffin, a 6-10, 255-pound post just closed out his...