My Thoughts on the 2012 ACC Basketball Tournament! Preview

"Middle Class" Matt and his thoughts on a North Carolina tradition, the ACC Tournament! CLICK ON THE VIDEO BELOW FOR THE WHOLE Story!

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Recap of the UNC vs. Duke Beat Down in Durham March 3rd!!!

In this entry I recap the UNC vs. Duke game(March 3rd), talk about UNC's chances for a national championship, and explore idea that "Duke is not Elite." CLICK THE VIDEO below to see the whole story!

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The Rivalry! UNC vs. Duke Part II The Rematch!!!

Hang On! It's Do or Die Time!!!

The last Duke vs. UNC game was a classic! The Tar Heels allowed the Devils to steal one in Chapel Hill by not taking advantage of easy opportunites during the last few minutes of the game. What also helped Duke was the referees swallowing their whistles, and this is not just UNC fan bias, Doug Gottlieb pointed out the missed calls on ESPN today! Check out my preview of the No. 6 UNC vs. No. 4 Duke rematch, should be another good one!

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My Day in Chapel Hill Part III (videos)

Dick Baddour is the former Athletic Director of the Unversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Baddour retired in the wake of the UNC football scandal, that cost Butch Davis his job. If you look at the numbers Baddour did a great job. While, Baddour was the AD, UNC won 13 National Championships as a program. Baddour had some great moments as AD, like when he convinced Roy Williams to come home to UNC. Many applauded his desicion to hire Butch Davis as the football coach. Now the Davis hire doesn't seem like the right move, but at the time it brought a seriousness to UNC's football program it had not had since the Mack Brown era. Here is a video of Dick Baddour receiving an award at halftime of the Boston College game, January 7th. Roy Williams presented Baddour to the crowd and said some really nice things. It seems they had a great relationship. Click the video below and see the award presentation.

Go Heels!

Harrison Barnes, Tyler Zeller, and Kendall Marshall

The Tar Heels warming up at halftime. Check out how effortless the 7 foot Tyler Zeller moves for a big man! He is so light on his feet.

A Rare Look into UNC's huddle with Roy!

Kendall Marshall to Tyler Zeller for the assist!

UNC Cheerleaders!

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UNC vs. Duke Rivalry Recap!!! Feb. 8

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Check out my review and recap of another classic match-up between Duke and UNC!!!

My Day in Chapel Hill Part I(Pictures)

GO HEELS!

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I had some footage laying around from the January 7 UNC vs. Boston College game and I figured I write an entry about it. Chapel Hill is a special place to watch a basketball game. The Smith Center may not be a the loudest venue in America, but it could be the most magical. You see all the big names of the greats hanging in rafters and on this day I saw a lot of big names on and around the court. Their is Carolina blue everywhere and the fans are such a classy, educated bunch of basketball people. UNC has been criticised in the past for being a passive, fair-weather bunch and some of that maybe warranted, but at the same time the Dean Dome is a place the whole family can enjoy the tradition and excellence of basketball on the highest level in nation.

Tar Heel Great and ESPN Analyst Brad Daugherty

UNC fans with their stomachs painted waiting for the game to start

All-American and member of 93 Championship Tar Heels Eric Montross

Former NBA player and who now works for the Tar Heel Radio Network Eric Montross with Brad Daugherty. The surprising thing was the Montross was the taller of the 7 footers.

The Tar Heel Dance team in the crowd

The beautiful girls on the dance team in the crowd. It seems like one guy is trying to say hey.

The big screen showing Kendall Marshall dancing with the other Heels in the locker room.

The Tar Heels making an entrance!

Heels running on the floor!

Boston College and UNC players before the game

The student section ready for the game to start

Carolina Chocolate Chip with Carolina sprinkles, only found in the Carolinas and taste great!

7 footer Tyler Zeller(who maybe an All-American) waiting for the game to start

Roy Williams watching his Heels

Harrison Barnes(All-American), Tyler Zeller, Kendall Marshall will be all ACC teamers this year.

13th row half court best seats in the house!

Just My Thoughts... Football, Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, etc.

"Football is the Biggest Thing Around"

It will be hard to predict this year's Super Bowl outcome, but no matter who wins, the New England Patriots vs. New York Giants is a great match up. While Tom Brady and Bill Belichick will get all the attention, the big reason the Patriots are in the Super Bowl is Vince Wilfork. Wilfork dominated the Ravens from the defefensive tackle position. At Pro level I have seen few defensive tackles take over a game like Wilfork did. I saw Ndamukong Suh dominate Texas in this fashion, but that was at the college level. Wilfork has to weigh around 400 lbs. of raw power, yet football fans who watch him are amazed at his quickness. The Giants will have to game plan for Wilfork, as much as they will have to plan for Tom Brady. Wilfork is really the only serious defensive challenge the Giants will have to overcome. Should be an interesting Super Bowl.

I heard a sports radio host say that "the NFL Conference Championship round is last weekend for real football fans." I totally agree with this statement. I tried to watch some of the Pro Bowl this last weekend and boy it was tough to watch. I have never watched Pro Bowl start to finish and have rarely watched any of it live. The little bit of it I watched this year reminded me of flag football and none of the players really seem to care the outcome of the game. I really don't want to list the other reasons, why this the Pro Bowl is bad. Still, I will say it always seems werid to me, that the most popular sport in America has the worst All-Star game. I do understand it is important to have an all star game to put the elite players of the league on display, no matter how hard it is to watch.

I am always amazed at the names who get left off the Pro Bowl list. Lots of old name where on the list this year and lots of great young players were left off. I do like the Pro Bowl being moved to weekend before the Super Bowl, that way a few desperate, diehard NFL fans will tune in for a football fix.

I am a huge hoops fan, but it is hard to pay close attention to basketball when football is on. Now that football season is over, I am totally focused on roundball. We still have the Super Bowl to look forward to, but the Super Bowl is more like an award show, with a little football mixed in. Still, the Super Bowl should be as good of a game as we could hope for.

Both the NBA and college basketball have been pretty uneventful this year. Right now, I am now totally focused on UNC Tar Heel basketball. The Heels seem to be getting everything together. They looked really rough in the FSU game, in which they suffered the worse loss under Roy Williams. Since then the Heels have found their way. Still, this team reminds me not of the 2005 or 2009 UNC championship teams, but of Roy's Kansas team, which had Paul Pierce, Raef LaFrentz, etc. and were knocked out of the NCAA tourament early. That Kansas team was picked by most to win it all. Still, I hope I am wrong and Roy and the boys can get a third championship in less than a decade.