Tag: NCAA

Together: The Amazing Story of Carolina Basketball’s 2021-2022 Season, Coming Fall 2022!

PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOWPublished in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Athletics, featuring 150 color images, on sale November 2022: The definitive source on this year’s UNC Basketball team, Together: The Amazing Story of Carolina Basketball’s 2021-2022 Season by Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers, with a foreword by Hubert Davis, offers a behind-the-scenes… Continue Reading Together: The Amazing Story of Carolina Basketball’s 2021-2022 Season, Coming Fall 2022!

Sports

November 16, 2009

What has College Football become?

Another college football season is coming to an end, and as a fan of the sport, in general, and the Tar Heels, in particular, this time of year always makes me a little sad, even with our beloved state pastime—hoops anyone?—having arrived. (Let me be clear to my fellow Heels fans: I’m not saying the Tar Heels’ season is over–there’s… Continue Reading What has College Football become?

Sports/UNC Press News

September 15, 2009

LaGarrette Blount, Video Games, and Athletes’ Rights

We welcome a guest post today from Michael Oriard, whose most recent book is Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era, which we will publish this November. He recently blogged about the scholarly obligation of the “scholar-athlete” arrangement in college sports over at the New York Times’ college sports blog, The Quad. In this post,… Continue Reading LaGarrette Blount, Video Games, and Athletes’ Rights

American Studies/Current Events/Guest Bloggers/Sports

One Fantastic Ride with the Champs

For everyone associated with North Carolina Tar Heel basketball, the 2008-2009 season was as good as it gets. Key players returned when they could have easily picked up paychecks in the NBA. Records were broken by individuals and team alike. Starters picked up conference and national awards in droves. Best of all, the Heels won the basketball program’s fifth NCAA… Continue Reading One Fantastic Ride with the Champs

North Carolina/Sports/UNC Press News