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Luke DeCock: Jim Larranaga, one of the last of the ACC’s living legends, enjoying Final Four moment

HOUSTON — In the 17 years that passed between Final Four appearances for Jim Larranaga, he changed schools (from George Mason to Miami), became a worse dancer (according to his players and his own self-appraisal), and lost none of the love for coaching he absorbed from Terry Holland.

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Luke DeCock: As Final Four returns to Houston, UNC remembers the greatest shot ever forgotten

HOUSTON — The Final Four has come back around, seven years later, but there’s no marker on the floor in Houston to mark the spot where Kris Jenkins launched the shot that broke a million Tar Heel hearts, not that the NCAA has a habit of indulging in that kind…

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Tom Izzo, Tragedy-Stricken Michigan State Deliver More March Magic

Izzo’s Spartans have fashioned yet another run of unexpected NCAA tournament success out of indescribable pain.

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Baylor rolls UC-Santa Barbara, 74-56, in NCAA Tournament opener thanks to dominant second half

DENVER — Scott Drew isn’t in the same realm as Coach K, Jim Boeheim or Roy Williams, coaching legends all. But it appears he’s on his way.

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Luke DeCock: Creighton, NC State’s NCAA Tournament foe, still has a place in Triangle sports infamy

DENVER — If the enemy of your enemy is your friend, what the heck does that make Creighton to N.C. State?

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Luke DeCock: Duke ascendant, UNC pulls the plug as the mighty pendulum of rivalry swings the other way

The temptation to compare Hubert Davis and Jon Scheyer is strong, and for good reason. Coaches at Duke and North Carolina are always linked, through history and circumstance, but these two especially. Both were stars at their alma maters, where they took over for legendary, Hall of Fame coaches who…

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From Magic Mike to Paramore: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s Channing Tatum whipping his kit off in the well-oiled franchise or the return of Hayley Williams’s powerpop punks, our critics have you culturally covered for the next seven days

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Luke DeCock: The UNC-Duke rivalry enters a new phase Saturday. It’s not over. But it’s different.

Saturday was always going to be different, a new day, as clean a slate as there can ever be when North Carolina visits Duke or vice versa.

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Luke DeCock: The Triangle tide is turning, and North Carolina’s women showed a sellout crowd why

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — You could feel the tide turning, and not just because N.C. State looked lost against the zone or because the fans who filled Carmichael Arena rose and sent a roar up to the girders above like it once always was. When there came a moment Sunday…

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The rise of the coffee dance club – archive, 1963

17 January 1963: Except for alcohol, these classless havens provide all the requisite ingredients for an instant party

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Roy Wiliams and his wife Wanda hilariously did the ‘Swag Surf’ at Notre Dame-UNC game

More like swag swaying, am I right?

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Kristian Winfield: Jacque Vaughn held the Nets accountable. Now they’re rolling.

NEW YORK — When Jacque Vaughn was at the tail end of his NBA career as a backup point guard for the San Antonio Spurs, Mike Budenholzer was an assistant on Gregg Popovich’s staff.

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Scott Fowler: What I’m thankful for: family, dogs, 4th-and-goals, Ron Green ... and Dave Tepper?!

For more than 40 years, Charlotte sports columnist Ron Green Sr. wrote a Thanksgiving Day column about what he was thankful for, both in and out of the sports world.

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Scott Fowler: UNC’s Roy Williams opens up on Jordan, Dean, Duke and why he really retired

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Roy Williams, the star of this week’s “Sports Legends of the Carolinas,” is probably a well-known name to you and to most sports fans.

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UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis haunted — and energized — by national title loss

North Carolina’s 1991 Final Four loss to Kansas antagonized Hubert Davis as a player so much that he said he repeatedly watched a replay of it annually until he, as an assistant coach under Roy Williams, was part of the Tar Heels’ 2017 national title team.

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How ‘Breakfast Club’ helped UNC backcourt develop into one of best in college basketball

There were times watching Caleb Love and R.J. Davis as freshmen in North Carolina’s backcourt where it was hard to envision things working out. The pair contained a similar skill set and neither was what basketball people would call a pure point guard.

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Forde-Yard Dash: What Happens When Collectives Come for Your Players

Collectives can insert themselves into recruiting by offering money to players at other schools—it’s become a problematic part of roster management.

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ACC Men’s Preseason Rankings, Postseason Outlook

Duke’s Jon Scheyer era begins with high expectations as familiar faces headline the league.

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Mac Engel: He’s not Darren Woodson, but he’s closer to anything the Cowboys have had since Woody

FORT WORTH, Texas — With all respect to the Oklahoma Roy Williams, not the Texas Roy Williams, Donovan Wilson is closer to anything the Dallas Cowboys have had at safety since Darren Woodson.

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Evolving college basketball landscape is forcing coaches to adapt ... or ‘get out’

Mark Turgeon and Chris Mack had the kind of college basketball jobs at Maryland and Louisville, respectively, that you don’t walk away from. Yet both made the rare move of leaving Power 5 conference men’s basketball jobs in season.

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Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads review – a burning portrait of racism in Britain

Two decades since the debut of Roy Williams’s play set in a pub during an England v Germany World Cup qualifier, the script is as hot as ever

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Rock/ Paper/ Scissors; The Fellowship

Timing is everything in Chris Bush’s theatre-hopping trio of Sheffield plays; the same goes for Roy Williams’s ill-starred new Windrush generation drama

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The Fellowship review – ambitious drama overstuffed with issues

Strong performances carry this family drama by Roy Williams in which urgent themes don’t have enough space to grow

Evening Standard

The Fellowship at Hampstead Theatre review: a moving and hard-hitting family portrait

Roy Williams’ ambitious new play tackles the complexities of Black British identity

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Michigan State, Gonzaga considering basketball game on San Diego aircraft carrier

SAN DIEGO — After four attempts to play college basketball games outdoors on Navy ships, after three of them were either postponed or outright canceled, after all of them ran into financial complications, the prevailing winds indicated, for lack of a better pun, that ship had sailed.

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