It appears as though former five-year UNC basketball big man Armando Bacot was all smiles on Thursday while hooping again in the Dean E. Smith Center alongside graduate guard RJ Davis, other past teammates, and the program's formidable cast of newcomers. Bacot is fresh off breaking ground on his first hotel, a Home2 Suites in Raleigh. (Sports Illustrated)

Posted Aug 25, 2024
It's hard to have a conversation about college athletics with just about anybody these days without it eventually turning into and back-and-forth about NIL. That's my experience. Everybody wants to know what you're hearing. Everybody wants you to try to separate fact from fiction. Everybody wants you to share the wildest story you've heard. (CBS Sports)

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The 1997 Arizona Wildcats. The team that knocked both Carolina and then Kentucky off in the FF, also beat a Roy Williams led Kansas team in the Elite 8. Kansas was in my opinion the vest team in the country and Roy's best team at his 1st stop.
Arizona was dominated by the best guard Corp in the country. Miles Simon, Mike Bibby, Jason Terry were all 3 future long time NBA players. Michael Dickerson was a powerful high scoring wing, and Eugene Edgerson was a defensive and rugged young bench piece.
Zona rotated 3 very young frontcourt players that basically rebounded and defended without being set up within the offense. A.J. Bramlett, Bennett Davidson and Donell Harris were not thought of much like our unheralded frontcourt this season.
I like this team, and their ceiling. I think the 2 keys to the season are Jalen Washington and Cade Tysen. I think Tysen finishes games at the 4 spot each night, the question for me is does Hubert go all in with the small lineup from opening tip?
Never in my lifetime has a starting 5 been so up in the air going into a season.
I think this will be fun to see how it all plays out.

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Holy Cow, Batman! An assistant coach arrested for sex trafficking.

And he is a Michigan Man, no less.

I've always liked the former UVA HC. He coaches blue collar team football and gets the best of the talent he has. He began his New Mexico career today and lost to 1AA (FCS) power Montana St 35-31. But his team beat the spread.

Not a huge golf fan, but enjoy seeing great command of the club and the zone players can get into.

My opinion is LIV golf is much more enjoyable (as a TV viewer). I like how the leaderboard is always in view, the stat breakdowns, and think that the team play is an interesting aspect. Feels more laid back with music playing on the course, players wearing shorts, etc. I think the TV screen's real estate is managed quite well with all of the extra info. PGA's presentation comes across to me as empty, boring, and slow; elite golfers (as you expect), but the presentation to the TV viewer is lacking IMO.

What are your thoughts?

It pleases us to announce the return of Deana King to our staff at Tar Heel Illustrated. Deana will have a hand in assisting me in various areas of operation while dabbling in all manners of our UNC coverage. Please extend a welcome back to Ms King!

Another such ESPN article.

Big 12 Commish Brett Yormark is a NJ native who has many relatives in NYC and has always seen himself as very a NYC area person. He has seemed determined to cajole the Big 12 to take UConn since he got hired.

Again, I wonder if this is about Utah. When a bunch of talk went around at the start of summer about Utah planning to leave the Big 12 for the ACC, I read that Utah had no signed a full GOR, whjch means that it could leave the Big 12 after 1 year with no penalty. If that is the case, then Utah, an AAU school that surely would prefer to remain with Calford and get with UNC, UVA, Dook, Pitt, Miami, GT, etc. might have decided it is leaving the Big ASAP. Then Yormark would know he must add at least 1 school next year, and he wants UConn because of its proximity to NYC.

If that is the case, then the ACC needs to get proactive and try to get Yormark to take BC and Syracuse in a trade for Arizona and AZ ST or for WVU and CIncy. I'd take either pair in a trade. Yormark could have UConn-Cuse hoops with BC bringing in all that Boston class and old BE history. That should make his northeastern heart happy.

That also should make all fans of the ACC very happy.

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Taliyah Henderson, a 5* wing from Tucsan commits to UNC. She is the only commitment for the '25 cycle. ​

I found the news on a few sites but are hesitant to post because I dont want to break a rule about posting other website so I summarized the article. #21 on ESPN 100 Women's recruits.