"He (a young Dean) had it in his mind that whenever he coached a college team, it was time for him to integrate it too," wrote the author. Smith, who passed away in 2015, truly made that impact ...

SI.com's Seth Davis recently spoke with acclaimed author John Feinstein about his latest book, The Legends Club, about iconic college basketball coaches Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Valvano.

Longtime SI college basketball writer Curry Kirkpatrick, a North Carolina alum, on the death of Dean Smith and the rivalry with Duke.

When you do something right, do not seek recognition for it. That was the essence of a comment that Dean Smith made to John Feinstein about not wanting to be remembered for helping to desegregate ...

Many have recalled the times Smith sat down to put pen to paper, and indeed, he appears to have been a prolific letter-writer. Here are a few of his greatest written hits. In 1980, Smith wrote to ...

Dean Smith, decent and caring as he was, loved to be in charge. He liked running things, and running them his way. ... Tommy Tomlinson is a contributing writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine.

Pose your questions now and our Norwich City writer Michael Bailey will join in a couple of hours before Dean Smith’s first game as the club’s new head coach, at home to Southampton today ...

And the rest, including Dean Smith, were like the supporting cast on “Gilligan’s Island.” Dave Meyers, the star of Wooden’s last NCAA title team in 1975, came to UCLA from La Habra Sonora ...

"Baltimore is an acquired taste like the mustard scraped from a crab's backfin," said poet Dean Bartoli Smith, who won the Maryland Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Washington Writer's ...

When Mike Krzyzewski first got to Duke, he didn’t like UNC basketball coach Dean Smith. ... “to dispute developments,” as a writer for the Durham Herald-Sun described it the next day.