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Tar Heel Mania Featured at EDSBS

If you don’t read Every Day Should Be Saturday then you are missing out on one of the best college football blogs there is in these here parts of the blogosphere.  Fellow Tar Heel blogger Mike White of Tar Heel Mania fame, who I readily admit does a better job with the football than I [...]

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THF Countdown #7: 1984

Season: 1983-84
Record: 28-3 overall, 14-0 ACC(1st place)
ACC Tournament: Lost in semifinals to Duke
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Indiana in the Sweet Sixteen

Roster: Brad Daugherty, Matt Doherty, Cecil Exum, Steve Hale, Michael Jordan, Timo Makkonen, Cliff Morris, Sam Perkins, Buzz Peterson, Dave Popson, Kenny Smith, Joe Wolf.

Source: UNC Media Guide

The Comical Art of Dunking

The blog The Athlist posted a YouTube list called 20 Ways To Die While Dunking A Basketball.  It is a fairly humorous set of videos but the best one is #20:

20. Being a Duke basketball player (Greg Paulus) and flopping. If the reDEEM team makes one flop in their Olympic run, I will refuse to [...]

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THF Countdown #8: 1987

Season: 1986-87
Record: 32-4 overall, 14-0 ACC(1st place)
ACC Tournament: Lost in finals to NC State and I am still not over that one either.
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Syracuse in the Elite Eight

Roster: Steve Bucknall, Jeff Denny, Marty Hensley, Curtis Hunter, Rodney Hyatt, Jeff Lebo, Michael Norwood, Dave Popson, J.R. Reid, Kenny Smith, Ranzino Smith, Scott Williams, [...]

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THF Countdown #9: 1997

Season: 1996-97
Record: 28-7 overall, 11-5 ACC(2nd place tie)
ACC Tournament: Won Championship
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Arizona in the Final Four

Roster: Vince Carter, Ed Cota, Vasco Evtimov, Brad Frederick, Antawn Jamison, Charlie McNairy, Makhtar Ndiaye, Terrence Newby, Ademola Okulaja, Ryan Sullivan, Webb Tyndall, Shammond Williams, Serge Zwikker.

Source: UNC Media Guide

Apparently It Was Offensive

NIKE announced that they were pulling three prints ads for their new Hyperdunk shoes because images of opposing players catching a face full of crotch was said to play “off some viewers’ homophobia”

Really?  Who knew.  Does that line of thinking apply to this?

THF Countdown #10: 1991

Season: 1990-91
Record: 29-6 overall, 10-4 ACC(2nd place)
ACC Tournament: Won Championship
NCAA Tournament: Lost to Kansas in the Final Four

Roster: Scott Cherry, Pete Chilcutt, Hubert Davis, Rick Fox, Kenny Harris, George Lynch, Eric Montross, Derrick Phelps, Brian Reese, King Rice, Henrik Rodl, Clifford Rozier, Kevin Salvadori, Pat Sullivan, Matt Wenstrom.

Source: UNC Media Guide