Open the Youtube video *** At Carolina, I also began a relationship with coach Dean Smith that would endure until he died. I ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories exploring the storied and unique relationship between two of college basketball’s historically elite programs, North Carolina and Kansas. It ...

Dean Smith, the coaching innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and induction into basketball's Hall of Fame more than a decade before he left ...

Legendary North Carolina coach Dean Smith was born and spent most of his youth in Emporia, Kansas. His childhood home still stands along tree-lined Washington Street, as does the high school he ...

As North Carolina’s players warmed up for the 1982 title game, Dean Smith’s biggest after six Final Four losses, Sports Illustrated’s Curry Kirkpatrick and some other writers visited the North ...

Dean Smith got a chance to thank his players one last time. The formerNorth Carolinacoach, who died last month at 83, directed his trust in his will to give $200 to every letter winner who played for ...