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How To Pick North Carolina in Your 2022 Bracket

How To Pick North Carolina in Your 2022 Bracket

What seems like a lifetime ago, I wrote an annual column entitled “How to Pick North Carolina in Your Bracket.” It embraced the fundamental…
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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Championship Edition

Delirium Tournamens: UNC Championship Edition

It’s crazy we’ve already reached what would have been championship monday of the 2020 NCAA tournament. It would have been a strange March…
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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Final Four Edition

Delirium Tournamens: UNC Final Four Edition

UNC has made more Final Fours than any other program, having advanced to the last weekend of the NCAA tournament 20 times. Since every…
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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Elite Eight Edition

Delirium Tournamens: UNC Elite Eight Edition

Is anyone reading these? Have people moved on past missing march madness to just a constant level of existential anxiety about COVID?
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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Sweet 16 Edition

Delirium Tournamens: UNC Sweet 16 Edition

Now things are getting good. UNC has made the sweet 16 a whopping 34 times in their history, second only to Kentucky’s 44 sweet 16…
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Delirium Tournamens: UNC Second Round Edition

Delirium Tournamens: UNC Second Round Edition

Apologies for the delay. You’d think it would be easy to get a blog post finished on time in this moment of social distancing and…
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Delerium Tournamens: UNC First Round Edition

Delerium Tournamens: UNC First Round Edition

UNC isn’t playing in the NCAA tournament this year. I’ve been prepared for that possibility ever since UNC managed to blow a late double…
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How to pick North Carolina in your 2017 bracket

How to pick North Carolina in your 2017 bracket

I’ve been told living well is the best revenge.
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How to Pick North Carolina in Your 2016 Bracket

How to Pick North Carolina in Your 2016 Bracket

Last year I wrote a piece called “How to Pick North Carolina in Your Bracket.” It was predicated on two simple ideas. One, picking North…
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One More Ball

One More Ball

How Angelique Kerber beat Serena
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The Night Kenan Blacked Out, An Oral History

The Night Kenan Blacked Out, An Oral History

In the fall of 2008, after enduring three straight losing seasons, the North Carolina Tar Heels raced to a 4–1 start in Butch Davis’ second…
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