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UNC “outs” Roy Williams for his latest anonymous donation and Twitter world overreacts

Post author:Tom Shanahan
Post published:March 8, 2021
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Roy Williams and his wife Wanda. By TOM SHANAHAN The Twitter world can move on to another subject. Royal family speculation has longer legs than theories Williams concocted a scheme behind his latest donation to his alma mater. North Carolina coach Roy Williams didn’t donate $3 million on Monday as his retirement swan song entering the 2021 basketball post-season. Nor was it way to win favor with athletic director Bubba Cunningham to remain coaching the Tar Heels another…

Duffy Daugherty and the case for the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Post author:Tom Shanahan
Post published:October 1, 2020
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President Barack Obama three years ago you presented North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The White House ceremony was a moment for the basketball nation to applaud. The proclamation recognized Smith’s two national titles, multiple national coach-of-the year awards and life as a “dedicated civil rights advocate throughout his career.” Smith had integrated ACC basketball with Charlie Scott in the 1967-68 season. That resume and time frame is matched, if not surpassed,…

Dean Smith and Duffy Daugherty shared Martin Luther King’s dream

Post author:Tom Shanahan
Post published:January 18, 2020
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PHOTO: Martin Luther King speaking at Michigan State, Feb. 11, 1965. I've reposted this story for MLK Day. I wrote it for my former website a day after Dean Smith died, Feb. 7, 2015. By TOM SHANAHAN President Barack Obama bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith in a 2013 White House ceremony at a time I was in the process of researching and writing "Raye of Light." The moment reinforced in…