Teel Time: After cancer scare, UNC's Roy Williams vows to enjoy the journey

Posted Oct 20, 2012
Roy Williams says his recent surgery and cancer scare showed what a pansy he is. What North Carolina’s Hall of Fame basketball coach now needs to do is embrace that inner pansy. Translation: Don’t race back to the 80-hour work weeks. Allow that 62-year-old body to heal from the three-hour operation last month to remove a tumor from the right kidney. (Daily Press)

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