Eighty Years Ago, NCCU and Duke’s Basketball Teams Faced Off In a Groundbreaking Secret Game
Talking with “The Secret Game” author Scott Ellsworth about the local college basketball game that broke barriers and shaped sports history.
A Durham League of Their Own
Through an upstart recreational league, hundreds of basketball players come together for the love of the game.
‘Discredited’ Takes a Long Look at the UNC-Chapel Hill Athletics Scandal, but Fails to Give the Athletes Caught Up in It a Voice
The NCAA is not designed to be understood. Its contradictions are the point, as the new book, “Discredited: The UNC Scandal and College Athletics’ Amateur Ideal” explores, using UNC-Chapel Hill’s scandal-plagued athletics department as its source.
Hubert Davis Named Head Coach of UNC Men’s Basketball Team
Davis replaces Roy Williams, who led the Tar Heels to three national championship titles during his tenure as head coach.
Coach Levelle Moton’s “More With More” Mission Is On Display in New ESPN+ Docuseries
Eight-part series “Why Not Us?” is an in-depth look at NCCU basketball and HBCU athletics.
New Documentary Series “Hoop Portraits” Follows Two North Carolina NBA Prospects
It’s six weeks until the NBA Draft, and North Carolina’s Ty-Shon Alexander and Josh Hall are dribbling intensively, an aura of sweat and nervous friction in the air.
CIAA Cancels 2021 Basketball Season and Big-Ticket Tournament
Triangle ties to CIAA basketball run deep.
More Basketball Coverage
Could the Bucks’ Historic Strike Inspire Change in Durham Sports?
The Bucks led the charge to say: “We’re not animals, we’re not here for your entertainment, we won’t shut up and dribble, and we will Buck the system.”
The ACC Basketball Tournament Has Been Canceled
The ACC, the SEC, the NBA, and other leagues have all shut down due to coronavirus.
Senior Night Is a Homegrown Doc About Basketball Players at Riverside High School
Friday, May 18 Walltown Children’s Theatre, Durham 8 p.m., $15–$25, www.walltownchildrenstheatre.org If you missed Senior Night when it screened in the Southern Documentary Fund’s in-progress series last year, here’s a chance to see Durham filmmaker David Mayer’s short, now completed, as part of a well-rounded evening of entertainment rich with local interest. Centering on Riverside…
After a Loss at the Dean Dome, the Blue Devils’ Season Is in the Balance: The Week in Duke Hoops
The Skinny An ugly stretch got uglier for the Blue Devils on Thursday, as the team lost again in their first start since a stunning defeat at St. John’s, this time to the suddenly surging UNC at the Dean Dome. A crisp early pace and a visible advantage in natural playmakers seemed to foretell a…
Down Go the Blue Devils! And the Pack! A Good Week in UNC Hoops.
The Skinny The loud hum of airborne helicopters passing overhead late Thursday night could only mean one thing: that the fires burned on Franklin Street, that Chapel Hill was in a communal state of exaltation, that the Heels had beaten the Blue Devils. At the Smith Center on Thursday, the Tar Heels put together arguably…
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