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Former Tar Heel legend Jerry Stackhouse emerges as candidate for Chicago Bulls head coach

Anyone remember the 1993-94 and 94-95 North Carolina men's basketball teams? Highlighted by a 1995 Final Four appearance, those Tar Heel squads featured a future All-Star in Jerry Stackhouse. Earning First Team All-ACC honors in 1995, Stackhouse left North Carolina after two seasons, later becoming the '95 NBA Draft's third overall pick. (USA Today)

Florida's Todd Golden blasts LSU's Will Wade for recruiting pro players

LSU basketball coach Will Wade is pushing the envelope in recruiting ahead of his first season with the Tigers, arming his program with a roster of professional basketball talent while challenging the fabric of the sport's unclear eligibility rules. Florida coach Todd Golden is the first SEC colleague to go on the record against Wade's recruiting tactics. (CBS Sports)

Who’s playing where? A cheat sheet on college sports realignment

Realignment among the major college athletic conferences has slowed but there has been plenty of movement elsewhere. The Power Four (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC) go into the football season with no membership changes from a year ago. The rest of the 10 leagues in the Football Bowl Subdivision — particularly the Pac-12 — have new faces in some places. (Associated Press)

NCAA tournament expansion nobody wanted is latest example of college leaders abandoning fans

Every single person who signed off on the decision Thursday to expand the NCAA basketball tournament to 76 teams understands that they are doing something fans didn’t ask for and that nobody in a position of power can justify. It is the Seinfeld of expansions — a decision about nothing, that gains absolutely nothing for college basketball. (Yahoo! Sports)

An outrageous owner and savvy businessman, Ted Turner reshaped the sports world

Ted Turner was a sportsman of all types, a world champion in sailing and a World Series-winning owner in baseball. He famously owned the Atlanta Braves, leveraging his ownership of the TBS superstation to broadcast their games across the country, all while showcasing his outsized personality at a time when many owners stayed behind the scenes. (Associated Press)

Michael Jordan surprises former teacher in hospice care with phone call

An elderly woman in Wilmington is checking off a special bucket-list wish. Ms. Etta is a hospice patient at Lower Cape Fear LifeCare, but many years ago she was a high school teacher. She often talks about her former students, but there was one name that kept coming up: Michael Jordan. The nurses recently helped Jordan and Ms. Etta connect on FaceTime. (WTVD)

All-American RB Ahmad Hardy discharged after shooting, heads back to Missouri to begin recovery

All-American running back Ahmad Hardy has been discharged from a Mississippi hospital following a shooting, and the Missouri standout is returning to Columbia to begin the recovery effort in the hopes of playing this season. Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz said during an event in Dallas late Tuesday that the timetable for Hardy’s recovery is undetermined. (Associated Press)

ESPN, The CW reach ACC sublicense agreement; Raycom Sports continues to produce

The CW will continue to carry ACC football and men’s and women’s basketball. The network announced that it has reached a sublicense agreement with ESPN for ACC programming through the 2030-31 season. The deal will see The CW carry 14 regular-season football games, 30 men’s basketball games, and 10 women’s basketball games each season. (Awful Announcing)

ACC’s Jim Phillips says conference is ‘strong’ and ‘healthy’

ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said the “league is strong” and the “healthiest that we’ve been in my tenure.” Phillips, speaking during the ACC spring meetings in Amelia Island, Fla., said, “The league is well-positioned. The league is healthy. It’s thriving. It’s flourishing. It’s helping the league nationally. I think we’ve embracing creativity and innovation.” (Sports Business Journal)

Michael Jordan's ZR-1 has been added to the Corvette Museum

The Corvette Museum has added another legendary vehicle to its collection, a 1993 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 40th Anniversary Edition previously owned by "His Airness" himself, basketball legend Michael Jordan. He was seen driving the car in "The Last Dance," a docuseries highlighting the Chicago Bulls dynasty in the 1990s that aired on ESPN in 2020. (MSN.com)

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