College basketball preview: UNC, Gonzaga, Houston looking great; Big Ten, not so much Let’s look at 10 storylines for the new season. Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 8, 2022
Andrew Carter: This is NC’s weirdest college football season in recent memory — and maybe its most fun Well, things are officially getting weird. Have been for a while, actually, but Saturday cemented it: This is now the wildest, strangest college football season in recent memory in North Carolina. Tribune News Service · Nov 8, 2022
Tell the Supreme Court: We still need affirmative action Some conservatives would like to retire affirmative action because they claim it’s accomplished everything it set out to do. But it hasn’t. Not even close. Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 7, 2022
UNC comes from behind on road to beat Virginia, 31-28 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — No. 17 North Carolina trailed at halftime for the third consecutive game and for the third straight time owned the second half as it won, 31-28, at Virginia on Saturday at Scott Stadium. Tribune News Service · Nov 5, 2022
UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis haunted — and energized — by national title loss North Carolina’s 1991 Final Four loss to Kansas antagonized Hubert Davis as a player so much that he said he repeatedly watched a replay of it annually until he, as an assistant coach under Roy Williams, was part of the Tar Heels’ 2017 national title team. Tribune News Service · Nov 5, 2022
Scott Fowler: ESPN’s Jay Bilas on hoops, Duke-UNC and tangling with Barney the Dinosaur CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jay Bilas, ESPN’s leading college basketball analyst, is this week’s interview subject for “Sports Legends of the Carolinas.” Tribune News Service · Nov 4, 2022
Colloquy on the Arbitrariness of Racial Classification in Monday's Oral Argument In the oral argument from SFFS v. UNC, Justice Alito raised the question, highlighted in my amicus brief and book, of whether the racial and ethnic classifications used by UNC and other universities are so arbitrary as to be unconstitutional. I have posted the colloquy below. Two comments: (1) Justice… Reason · Nov 3, 2022
A Remarkable Moment at Oral Argument in the UNC Affirmative Action Case Counsel for UNC did not know which box students of Middle Eastern Origin are supposed to check. Reason · Nov 2, 2022
Ranking All 363 Teams in Men’s College Basketball SI’s annual preseason list is here, with insights on the expectations of dozens of programs across the country. Sports Illustrated · Nov 2, 2022
Editorial: Don’t worry, children of privilege. Supreme Court won’t end affirmative action for you It’s not true that the U.S. Supreme Court is about to end affirmative action in college admissions. Tribune News Service · Nov 2, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson grills lawyer in case seeking to end affirmative action Newest member of US supreme court seems to reject idea that affirmative action in university admissions is unconstitutional The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2022
Ticket Prices Peak Ahead of College Football Playoff Rankings National Championship Game ticket reservation prices for Tennessee rose 50% ahead of the team’s clash with Georgia. Sports Illustrated · Nov 1, 2022
Top 10 Men’s College Hoops Games to Circle in 2022–23 From the Champions Classic to conference showdowns, these are the matchups you don’t want to miss. Sports Illustrated · Nov 1, 2022
November isn’t just for basketball. NC college football teams enter final month with hope The state of college football in North Carolina entering November brings to mind a humorous meme. Perhaps you’ve seen it on Twitter, or elsewhere. It’s the one with an elderly-looking man getting held up near his car. He pretends to suffer a medical emergency and pleads with his would-be robber… Tribune News Service · Nov 1, 2022
Reason · Nov 1, 2022 Review of Oral Argument in Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina My Justice-by-Justice breakdown.
The Texas Tribune · Nov 1, 2022 Paxton, Cornyn and Cruz prod U.S. Supreme Court to end affirmative action in college admissions The high court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases brought by a group led by the same man who previously lost an affirmative action case against the University of Texas at Austin.
Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 31, 2022 The Supreme Court could end affirmative action in higher ed. Here’s how it might affect local schools. The court heard two cases Monday challenging affirmative action in college admissions. A June decision could impact admissions next fall.
USA Today Sports Media Group · Oct 31, 2022 Tennessee rolls again, Auburn fires Bryan Harsin and whatever that was in Charlottesville: Winners and losers from Week 9 of the college football season Which is spookier: Tennessee's offense or Bryan Harsin's buyout?
Reason · Oct 31, 2022 The Supreme Court's Options in the Harvard and UNC Affirmative Action Cases The conservative majority on the Court is highly likely to rule against the two schools' use of racial preferences in admissions. But there are several different ways it could do so, which have different implications for future cases.
Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 31, 2022 U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices raise doubts about using race in college admissions The high court’s conservatives all expressed doubts about the practice, while the three liberals defended the programs, which are similar to those used by many private and public universities.
Reason · Oct 31, 2022 The Supreme Court Could End Affirmative Action In the two cases, brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions argues that race-conscious admissions violate the Civil Rights Act
Al Jazeera · Oct 31, 2022 US Supreme Court hears arguments in affirmative action case The court has upheld the use of race-conscious admissions in the past, but has moved to the right in the years since.
Tribune News Service · Oct 31, 2022 Supreme Court justices battle over race as a factor in college admissions Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court showed deep divides over race-conscious university admissions while questioning lawyers in cases that could transform college campuses and overturn decades-old precedents.
Roll Call · Oct 31, 2022 Supreme Court sounds skeptical of race in college admissions - Roll Call The conservative-controlled Supreme Court appeared ready to curtail the use of race in college admissions during oral arguments Monday.
Reason · Oct 31, 2022 The Arbitrariness of Racial Classifications Gets Attention as SCOTUS Considers Affirmative Action I did not time my book on racial classifications to coincide with litigation over affirmative action. Indeed, the book is not about affirmative action, and much of the book has nothing directly to do with it. Of course, though, it turns out that you can't talk about the post-World War…