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 ...

No. 18 North Carolina slogged its way to a 73-61 victory over Navy on Tuesday night at the Dean Smith Center, moving to 5-0 ...

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 ...

The move to renovate or replace North Carolina’s Smith Center isn’t a new initiative launched as other new arenas are being built, beautified or enhanced. Those talks began more than a decade ago, ...

John Calipari passed the legendary Dean Smith on the all-time wins list thanks to Arkansas' victory over Samford. Here's what ...

Dean Smith, a legendary college basketball coach, led the North Carolina Tar Heels for 36 years, winning two NCAA championships and mentoring future NBA stars like Michael Jordan and James Worthy.

There were two elephants in the room Monday along with new Charlotte FC head coach Dean Smith, who was introduced as the local Major League Soccer team’s head man. He acknowledged the existence of ...

Dean Smith and John Thompson - two of the biggest names in college basketball - were close friends on and off the court, so it was only appropriate that Thompson was the first winner of the Dean Smith ...

Legendary college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale’s return to the airwaves after a two-year hiatus due to multiple cancer diagnoses has been one of the most heartwarming stories in the sport this ...

Dean Smith was a member of the Emporia High School basketball team in 1947. Photograph from the school yearbook. Robert Willett [email protected] North Carolina and Kansas share more college ...

Longtime Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski was named the recipient of the 2022-2023 Dean Smith Award. The recognition from the U.S. Basketball Writers Association honors people who embody the ...

Some variation on the word ‘ambition’ was uttered no fewer than 10 times as Charlotte FC introduced Dean Smith as the third head coach in their brief history on Monday – and the Englishman did not shy ...