Dean Smith Basketball News & Bio

Name: Dean Smith Hometown: Emporia, KS High School: Emporia Born: February 28, 1931 Died: February 7, 2015 Notes: Basketball Hall of Fame, 4x NCAA Coach of the Year, 1982 NCAA Championship coach, 879 wins

Lawrence Taylor discusses friendship with Michael Jordan
After being drafted second overall in the 1981 NFL Draft, Lawrence Taylor returned to school to finish up that summer. It was there that he...
Sun Jun 14, 2020

100 in 100: Moore County’s Charles Waddell, 3-sport standout at UNC
A 6-foot-5, 230-pound tight end for the Tar Heels, Charles Waddell caught 41 passes for 571 yards and seven touchdowns in his career earning All-ACC...
Fri Jun 12, 2020

Forever my coach: Ryan McGee on how Johnny Majors changed his life
We should all have the blessing of a person in our lives we can call, simply, Coach. Perhaps it's the legend who had his painted...
Thu Jun 11, 2020

Chansky’s Notebook: Dean and ‘Dixie’
North Carolina basketball coaching legend Dean Smith was 53 years ahead of NASCAR, which announced on Wednesday that the confederate flag would no longer be...
Thu Jun 11, 2020

Top 30 UNC Basketball Teams Of All-Time: No. 19 - 1975-76
A team with four gold-medal winning Olympians has to be pretty good, right? That was the case for the 1975-76 Tar Heels. Dean Smith was...
Thu Jun 11, 2020

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