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Former North Carolina basketball star dead at 46
Former North Carolina Tar-heels basketball star Ademola Okulaja died at 46 on Tuesday, the university confirmed.
NCAA, USA history hangs over UNC-Indiana, especially in Philly
PHILADELPHIA — It helps that the game will be played across the street from where the Spectrum once stood, where on an unforgettable night in March of 1981 the Indiana...
Dean Smith leaves $200 for every former UNC player
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Dean Smith is still giving to his North Carolina players — even after his death. Tim Breedlove, the Charlotte-based trustee of the trust that bears the...
The Jahlil Okafor flaw that nearly cost Duke in classic with UNC
Perhaps, it was North Carolina’s struggles or Duke’s vulnerability or that undefeated Kentucky wasn’t playing in the game — and John Calipari’s Wildcats own the college basketball universe these days — but...
Dean Smith transcended basketball as a pioneer for good
The name of the restaurant was The Pines, and back in the late 1950s, when Frank McGuire was still coaching basketball for the University of North Carolina, he often would...
Legendary UNC coach Dean Smith dies at 83
Dean Smith, the Hall of Fame innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina along with an Olympic gold medal while coaching some of the game's biggest names like...