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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It has been about a year since the start of Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. A story about what the raids left behind in places still on guard: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/13/c...
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A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway Blitz
It’s been a year since the Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” What it left behind can be measured in the number of neighborhood patrollers, people who keep a wary eye from apartment balc...
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway Blitz. Our latest story with @andrew-carter.bsky.social @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social and @ckubzansky.bsky.social @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/13/c...
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A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway Blitz
It’s been a year since the Trump Administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz.” What it left behind can be measured in the number of neighborhood patrollers, people who keep a wary eye from apartment balc...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
While the Cubs celebrate history, a story about one corner of Wrigleyville, and the people keeping it alive: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/29/w...
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One Wrigleyville corner hangs on to its roots and ballhawks as Chicago Cubs mark 150th anniversary
The Chicago Cubs are celebrating their 150th year, 110 at Wrigley, where the land beyond left field remains old-school.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I love this story from our ace writer @andrew-carter.bsky.social: One Wrigleyville corner hangs on to its roots and ballhawks as Chicago Cubs mark 150th anniversary www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/29/w...
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One Wrigleyville corner hangs on to its roots and ballhawks as Chicago Cubs mark 150th anniversary
The Chicago Cubs are celebrating their 150th year, 110 at Wrigley, where the land beyond left field remains old-school.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In Kaskaskia, home of Illinois’ first capital, there’s nothing left but a church and the congregation keeping it alive. Upon America 250, a visit to the place of Illinois’ founding, where the Mississippi left nothing outside of a stubborn resilience: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/k...
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In Kaskaskia, first capital of Illinois, all that’s left is a church and the congregation keeping it alive
Believers persevere to honor Kaskaskia’s role as explorer outpost, Revolution battleground, state capital and Mississippi River flooding victim.
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Chicago Tribune Sports @chicagosports.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Campfire Milkshake is back for more at White Sox games — and it’s bringing some new friends. Here's what to eat and drink at Rate Field this season. 📝 @andrew-carter.bsky.social
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Campfire Milkshake is back for more at Chicago White Sox games. And it’s bringing some new friends.
Give the White Sox their due: The Campfire Milkshake will be back for a third season, the team confirmed during its annual “ballpark preview” event.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
They began lining up hours early. A retired teacher flew in from Florida. A man from Englewood remembered marching beside him. A South Side principal brought three buses of her students. On the people who came to say goodbye to the Rev. Jesse Jackson: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/r...
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson advocated for the people. They came in droves to visit him one last time.
More than a week of services and funerals in memory of Rev. Jesse Jackson will begin Thursday at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization he founded on the South Side in 1971.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Thursday was the first day of public visitation for the Rev. Jesse Jackson. On the people who came to say goodbye: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/r...
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson advocated for the people. They came in droves to visit him one last time.
More than a week of services and funerals in memory of Rev. Jesse Jackson will begin Thursday at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization he founded on the South Side in 1971.
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UW Center for Journalism Ethics @uwethics.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Congratulations to 2026 Shadid Award finalists @royalpratt.bsky.social, @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social, @ckubzansky.bsky.social, @jmetr22b.bsky.social & @andrew-carter.bsky.social (chicagotribune.com) for reporting on the mass deportation effort in Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
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64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
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Chicago Tribune Sports @chicagosports.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Long-beleaguered Gary is serious about the Bears. Are the Bears serious about Gary? “The day that they officially made the announcement, I’ve been saying since that moment — it’s ours to lose.” 📝 @andrew-carter.bsky.social
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Long-beleaguered Gary is serious about the Bears. Are the Bears serious about Gary?
The Chicago Bears say they’re seriously considering building a new stadium in northwest Indiana. Gary officials believe them, however fantastical or far-fetched.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
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64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
64 days in Chicago — the story of Operation Midway Blitz: a comprehensive accounting, with colleagues, of a two months unlike any in Chicago’s recent history. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...
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64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz
President Donald Trump’s federal immigration enforcement operation led to most surreal autumn in Chicago history. What happened during those 64 days will be remembered for a long time.
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Chicago Tribune Sports @chicagosports.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Seat 2 in Row 19 of Section 140. That's Father Bob’s seat at Rate Field. As the White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with an outdoor Mass on Saturday, his 2005 World Series seat has become a pilgrimage site for the faithful. 📝 @andrew-carter.bsky.social
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Divine revelations: Pope Leo XIV’s attendance at 2005 World Series leaves champion White Sox with an immaculate legacy
As the Chicago White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with an outdoor Mass on Saturday, his 2005 World Series seat has become a pilgrimage site for the faithful.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Twenty years ago, the future pope attended Game 1 of the World Series in Chicago. A television camera caught him, by chance or by fate, for about three seconds in the ninth inning. A story about what lingers from that moment, and night, two decades later: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/c...
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Divine revelations: Pope Leo XIV’s attendance at 2005 World Series leaves champion White Sox with an immaculate legacy
As the Chicago White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with an outdoor Mass on Saturday, his 2005 World Series seat has become a pilgrimage site for the faithful.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Twenty years ago, the future pope attended Game 1 of the World Series in Chicago. A television camera caught him, by chance or by fate, for about three seconds in the ninth inning. A story about what lingers from that moment, and night, two decades later: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/11/c...
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Divine revelations: Pope Leo XIV’s attendance at 2005 World Series leaves champion White Sox with an immaculate legacy
As the Chicago White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with an outdoor Mass on Saturday, his 2005 World Series seat has become a pilgrimage site for the faithful.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
More than 72,000 American military members remain unaccounted for from World War II. This is the story of one who was recently found, and laid to rest. On the Chicago-area homecoming of Pvt. James Loyd, an American soldier: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/c...
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‘An American Soldier:’ The improbable homecoming of WWII Army Pvt. James Loyd to Chicago area
Pvt. James C. Loyd disappeared during a nighttime firefight days after the Allied Forces landed near Anzio, Italy, in 1944. He’s finally come home.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
More than 72,000 American military members remain unaccounted for from World War II. This is the story of one who was recently found, and laid to rest. On the Chicago-area homecoming of Pvt. James Loyd, an American soldier: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/c...
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‘An American Soldier:’ The improbable homecoming of WWII Army Pvt. James Loyd to Chicago area
Pvt. James C. Loyd disappeared during a nighttime firefight days after the Allied Forces landed near Anzio, Italy, in 1944. He’s finally come home.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Honored this week to begin a new chapter at the Chicago Tribune, where I’ll be a Senior Reporter on the GA/enterprise team. In other words: I’ll be looking for great stories all over Chicago and Illinois. Excited to get to work in America’s best and most compelling city.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
After 4,864 days of bylines, datelines and deadlines (some of which I actually met), last night’s Duke-Carolina game was my final assignment at The News & Observer. It has, very literally, been a dream come true to be a part of it. I’m grateful beyond words.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Clemson, Florida State and the ACC have dropped their lawsuits against each other. And so there is peace, for now. For the long term? Eh. Probably not so much. Winners and losers and what-to-know, while pondering the Neville Chamberlainedness of it all: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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With Florida State, Clemson dropping lawsuits there is peace in the ACC – sort of. Here’s what to know
Florida State, Clemson and the ACC have reached a settlement to their lawsuits and made peace. Will it last? Don’t bet on it.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Cade Tyson has seen the mean tweets and heard the noise. And he understands the angst better than anyone. “I feel like I haven’t accomplished much here," he said Monday in Tallahassee. Slowly, though, there are signs. On his faith during a tough season: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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How UNC basketball’s Cade Tyson has maintained faith amid criticism, noise of tough season
UNC’s Cade Tyson has been an easy target amid his struggles this season. Slowly, though, his faith is starting to be vindicated.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Wrote about the sorry state of ACC men’s basketball. Is the explanation as simple as an exodus of great coaches? Probably. Even so, there are some deeper issues here. The conference should never be *this* bad. On some of the causes and effects: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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ACC basketball was once king — so how has the once-proud conference reached such a low?
The ACC’s basketball history and tradition are second to none. So how did it ever get this bad?
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Red-eyes with stops to refuel. Consults with "sleep guys," including a NASA expert. A travel schedule more grueling than that in the NBA. Football TV money drove the ACC’s Westward expansion. The league’s basketball teams, among others, are paying the price: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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ACC expanded West for football TV money. Basketball teams, among others, pay the price
Football TV money has driven all the realignment in major college athletics over the past several years. In the ACC, it has created basketball travel more demanding than that in the NBA.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Cooper Flagg put on a show Saturday night in Durham in his Duke-Carolina debut. He also underscored the broader difference between the two rivals in this new college basketball era. One program has been aggressively progressive. The other has resisted change. www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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How Cooper Flagg epitomizes the gap between Duke and UNC — and not just on the court
UNC and Duke have taken diverging approaches to recruiting in an evolving college basketball landscape, a difference that led Cooper Flagg to Durham, and the Blue Devils to a blowout win over the Tar ...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Cooper Flagg put on a show Saturday night in Durham in his Duke-Carolina debut. He also underscored the broader difference between the two rivals in this new college basketball era. One program has been aggressively progressive. The other has resisted change. www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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How Cooper Flagg epitomizes the gap between Duke and UNC — and not just on the court
UNC and Duke have taken diverging approaches to recruiting in an evolving college basketball landscape, a difference that led Cooper Flagg to Durham, and the Blue Devils to a blowout win over the Tar ...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
His back literally against a wall late Tuesday night, near midnight, Hubert Davis spoke of a need to keep fighting. “What choice do you have?” After another late meltdown, it’s fair to question whether UNC can muster such resiliency. From Pittsburgh: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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After (another) late collapse, UNC nearing (another) crossroads under Hubert Davis
For UNC, the late collapse Tuesday night at Pitt was “kind of like the same movie over and over again,” RJ Davis said. The Tar Heels are becoming familiar with an uncomfortable new reality.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Settling in at the Smith Center for some bicoastal Atlantic Coast basketball action: Cal at UNC. Last time the Golden Bears were here: November 1997. That game gave us perhaps the most iconic shot of a Vince Carter dunk, ever. Photograph made (of course) by Hugh Morton.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Yes, it was only Miami and arguably the ACC's worst team. But after another rout, it's fair to say Duke's biggest obstacle in ACC play might just be boredom. When was the last time the gap was this wide between the ACC's best and the rest? From Cameron Indoor: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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After rout against Miami, perfect ACC start, Duke’s biggest challenge might be boredom
Duke’s early ACC dominance begs the question: When was the last time the gap was this wide between the ACC’s best team and the rest of the league?
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Saturday’s Carolina-State game delivered, in the end, after 35 minutes as ugly as any in the 248-game history of the series. The good: Jalen Washington. Ian Jackson. State’s D (maybe?). The not-so good: this underscored the ACC’s mediocrity: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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UNC, NC State delivered a compelling ending — to a game that underscored ACC’s mediocrity
North Carolina and N.C. State delivered a classic ending — in a game that otherwise didn’t deserve it.
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Luke DeCock @lukedecock.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
UNC and Bill Belichick came from opposite directions to arrive at this marriage of football convenience. “College kind of came to me this year,” Belichick said. “I didn’t necessarily go and seek it out.” “We’re taking a risk,” Bubba Cunningham said. www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...
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How North Carolina and Bill Belichick started from opposite poles and ended up together
Bill Belichick decided he wanted to coach in college. UNC decided it needed a pro coach. Their marriage of convenience was born of desperation.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Dick Crum once said UNC wanted to be Oklahoma on Saturday and Harvard during the week. But now it's no longer content to be "relegated to the kids table" in football. On a decades-long dance ending in the decision to go all in, and hire Bill Belichick: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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How Bill Belichick became UNC’s football coach: Inside the Tar Heels’ bold, risky move
UNC has tried almost everything to become nationally relevant in football. Its hiring of Bill Belichick, and the enormous financial investment along with it, is its boldest move ever.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Dick Crum once said UNC wanted to be Oklahoma on Saturday and Harvard during the week. But now it's no longer content to be "relegated to the kids table" in football. On a decades-long dance ending in the decision to go all in, and hire Bill Belichick: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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How Bill Belichick became UNC’s football coach: Inside the Tar Heels’ bold, risky move
UNC has tried almost everything to become nationally relevant in football. Its hiring of Bill Belichick, and the enormous financial investment along with it, is its boldest move ever.
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Luke DeCock @lukedecock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Bill Belichick, cutting the sleeves off an Alexander Julian plaid blazer. Bill Belichick, being asked to shake the hand of a human dressed as a toaster pastry. Bill Belichick, adding the entire UNC lacrosse team to the football roster. Can you imagine? www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Back for more in Chapel Hill. No sign of Bill Belichick inside the Smith Center. Not much in the way of early energy, either, from the Tar Heels, who trail Georgia Tech 8-4 early. UNC looking for something good to happen today. Been a bit.
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Luke DeCock @lukedecock.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Junior college football is about second (third? fourth?) chances. The opportunity is often the reward. There’s no trophy at the end. For the first time, Louisburg College has a chance to win one Saturday. www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-c...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It’s true, as (highly, highly) unlikely it is that it really goes anywhere: Bill Belichick has had talks with UNC about its head coaching vacancy. www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
One of the most surreal scenes I can remember in Triangle college hoops: A chant of "Roll Tide" bellowing in the Smith Center. On the ACC's woeful "challenge" showing against the SEC, which UNC's performance epitomized. How did things reach such a point? www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Back for more in the Smith Center. Game of significance here this evening between UNC and Alabama. Big thanks to the Worldwide Leader for scheduling all three Triangle ACC/SEC games at petty much the exact same time, too. Nice looking out for their comrades in the local media.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
UNC wanted to give Mack Brown a proper sendoff Saturday at Kenan Stadium. What happened instead was more fitting: a defeat against N.C. State that epitomized Brown's second tenure – the promise and, ultimately, the disappointment. On Brown's farewell: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
UNC wanted to give Mack Brown a proper sendoff Saturday at Kenan Stadium. What happened instead was more fitting: a defeat against N.C. State that epitomized Brown's second tenure – the promise and, ultimately, the disappointment. On Brown's farewell: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
For those who missed it in the rush of Thanksgiving prep: On Mack Brown and the end, at UNC: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mack Brown, as the old saying goes, could sell sand in the desert. Few in college football history have ever been better at that part of the job. It was everything else that led to his firing Tuesday. On Brown's UNC legacy and the (coaching) death of a salesman: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Mack Brown, as the old saying goes, could sell sand in the desert. Few in college football history have ever been better at that part of the job. It was everything else that led to his firing Tuesday. On Brown's UNC legacy and the (coaching) death of a salesman: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If the early returns are any indication, college basketball is experiencing something of a renaissance. The combination of NIL keeping guys in school longer and the last class of extra Covid-year players has made for the most compelling November I can remember. Will be a fun season.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Maui (and more specifically the Lahaina Civic Center) would rank very highly on a list of “best places I’ve had the good fortune to cover some ball.” Fun to see a great one to start things off there.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It’s Carolina-State on Saturday in what might as well be the Misery Bowl. Disappointment is nothing new for these two, but the angst is unusually high. These programs are pretty much the same. And that’s not a good thing. On that and more: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It’s Carolina-State on Saturday in what might as well be the Misery Bowl. Disappointment is nothing new for these two, but the angst is unusually high. These programs are pretty much the same. And that’s not a good thing. On that and more: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Back for more at the Smith Center. Tar Heels of North Carolina partaking in some college basketball action against the Eagles of American, coached by former Maryland Terrapin Duane Simpkins. There's a good "Name an ACC Guy" guy if there's ever been one. Former Tar Heel Jackie Manuel on his staff.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
My hottest (at the moment) college hoops take: With the exception of Maui and the Bahamas, all neutral site tournaments/“classic”s should be abolished and returned to home sites. Duke-Kentucky in Atlanta is great. Duke-Kentucky in either Durham or Lexington is way better.
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Andrew Carter @andrew-carter.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
N.C. State's football travails this season (to me, anyway) epitomize the quandary of today's NIL-driven college sports world. Fans are asked to give and give (and give) and yet ... for most teams the ROI will be nonexistent. More on that: www.newsobserver.com/sports/colle...
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