President honors Dean Smith, Smith's daughter tells what it means to family

Posted Nov 20, 2013
The books in the living room and the small UNC garden flag outside of her Salisbury home might be clues, but while the world knows Dean Smith as coach, Sandy Combs knows him as dad. "He was a wonderful father, and still is a wonderful father, but he always always worked towards people who were different, trying to help people," Combs told WBTV. (WBTV)

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